Upwind CISO Fireside Chats: Episode 2

June 25, 2025

Upwind CISO Fireside Chats: Episode 2

In this episode, we sit down with Jim Routh, former CISO at American Express, MassMutual, CVS, and more, for a conversation led by our CSO, Rinki Sethi.

From accidentally becoming one of the industry’s first CISOs to redefining what leadership means in cybersecurity, Jim shares hard-earned insights on stakeholder management, runtime security, and the future of software development with AI.

This series brings you honest, real-world conversations with the most experienced and forward-thinking security leaders out there.

Contents

Introduction When you deploy an AI agent to AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, your code runs inside a Firecracker microVM - but it doesn't run alone. In this three-part series, we tear down the platform internals, document what we found, and assess how well the isolation holds up. Setting the Stage AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime is…

Upwind Code Expands Enterprise Coverage to Azure DevOps and Bitbucket Cloud

Danilo Michelucci

Modern development organizations rarely keep all their code in one place. Teams may use different version control platforms because of acquisitions, business-unit preferences, regional requirements, or existing development workflows. But when code is spread across multiple providers, application security coverage can become fragmented too. Today, Upwind Code adds support for Azure DevOps and Bitbucket Cloud.…

Upwind Blue Agent – Increasing the Scope and tooling to a new level of incident response

Danilo Michelucci

Cloud attacks do not stay within the boundaries of a single security tool. An intrusion can begin with an API request, execute a process inside a Kubernetes workload, modify a file, contact an external host, use a cloud identity, and change cluster state, all as part of the same incident. But the evidence needed to…

Upwind CISO Fireside Chats: Episode 2