Gregory Carpenter is a Sr. Security Partner Strategist on the AWS Global Security & Compliance Acceleration Partner Team helping partners and customers meet their security and authorization needs, whether it be architecting, configuring, deploying, or integrating tools and controls. Throughout his career Greg has excelled at partner and customer communication and security and compliance support. Prior to AWS, Greg spent 4 years at CIS helping members and non-members as they navigate through their own cybersecurity strategy with a focus on cloud cyber security products and strategy for the global community. In his previous life, his work includes over 15 years as a Data-center System Administrator for Federal, State and DoD. Greg has also contributed on several CIS Benchmarks, the CIS Controls v8 Cloud Companion Guide along with the latest version of the CIS Critical Security Controls. When his head is not in the Cloud, he enjoys time with his family, time on his Harley, ice hockey, fishing and mountain biking.