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Amazon’s new board member is a cybersecurity founder who sold his last company to Google for $5.4B

Amazon said Mandia’s cybersecurity background will help the board address AI-driven threats as the company adds a veteran breach investigator and startup founder.

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Amazon has named Kevin Mandia, the founder of breach-investigation firm Mandiant, to its board of directors, adding security expertise a few months after former NSA director Keith Alexander stepped down. Mandia now runs Armadin, a startup that uses AI to run attacks against corporate networks as a way of testing their defenses.

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