
AWS for Software Companies Podcast Ep123: Signal from the Noise - How SecurityScorecard leverages AI to Power Global Threat Detection
Jul 25, 2025
17:22
Mark Stevens, SVP, Channels and Alliances, discusses how SecurityScorecard's strategic partnership with AWS enables them to scale their security solutions through cloud infrastructure, marketplace integration, and co-sell programs
Topics Include:
- SecurityScorecard founded 10 years ago to understand third-party vendor security posture
- Company has grown to 3,000 enterprise customers and 200+ partners globally
- Evolved from ratings to "supply chain detection and response" over last year
- Supply chain threats have doubled, creating extended attack surfaces for companies
- Many organizations don't know their vendor count or vulnerabilities within supply chains
- SecurityScorecard provides visibility into attack surfaces and management tools for control
- Generative AI is central to their ecosystem, leveraging AWS Bedrock extensively
- They scan the entire internet every two days at massive scale
- Have scored 12 million companies with security scorecards to date
- All workloads run on AWS cloud infrastructure as their primary platform
- AWS partnership provides necessary scale for managing hundreds of thousands of vendors
- Case study: Identified vendor misconfigurations that could shut down 1,000 locations
- Own massive 10-year data lake with tens of millions of companies
- New managed service combines AI automation with human analysts for support
- Large organizations cannot fully automate supply chain security management yet
- Quality threat intelligence data now valuable to SOC teams, not just risk
- Third-party risk management and SOC teams are slowly converging for better security
- AWS marketplace integration provides frictionless customer experience and larger deals
- Co-sell programs with AWS enterprise sales teams create effective flywheel motion
- Future expansion includes identity management, response actions, and internal signal management
Participants:
- Mark Stevens – SVP, Channels and Alliances, SecurityScorecard
Further Links:
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