AWS Fireside Chat Featuring Webroot Hal Lonas CTO
AWS Fireside Chat Featuring Webroot Hal Lonas, CTO, Webroot Sean Lewis, Sales Leader, Microsoft Platform, AWS October 12 th 2017 © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Webroot Introduction » » » » » Since 1997 – we’re not a startup $200 m FY 18, profitable, privately held 15 consecutive quarters double digit growth Reach 210 k businesses through 9200+ MSPs 55+ Security leaders use our security technology Recognized for innovation and leadership in security industry Threat intelligence powered by 5 th generation Machine Learning; the foundation of our products Industry’s Best Net Promoter Scores & Customer Satisfaction © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Who We Secure 30+ Million LICENSED ENDPOINTS 27+ Million OEM USERS 9 k+ MSP PARTNERS 210 k+ BUSINESS CUSTOMERS
Webroot Platform © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Webroot / Bright. Cloud’s “super power” = Machine Learning 5 th generation machine learning Bright. Cloud was founded on premise that ML is only way to do TI Petabytes of data ; terabytes new every day © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Webroot’s History with AWS Webroot acquisitions / transformation Prev. X – UK-based, pioneer with AWS Bright. Cloud – San Diego-based, pioneer with Threat Intel from ML • Colocation compute • “saw the light” and started a migration in 2011 Both tech stacks mostly based on Windows © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Life before AWS Colocation centers • Machine maintenance • Upgrades • Failures Power outages, physical hardware, networks, wiring Expertise needed for all of that and trips to the Colo © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
How Bright. Cloud transitioned Windows-centric platform to AWS New services first! • Real Time Anti Phishing Then existing Threat intelligence services: • URL content classification and Reputation • IPs, Mobile Apps, Mac and Win files, Streaming malware detection • Emphasis on clear wins like scalability and distribution of services © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
AWS Services We’re Using 39 different AWS services in use: From AWS A (API Gateway) to AWS Z (AWS X-Ray) Most used: Windows on EC 2 (90%), S 3, RDS, DDB © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Business Outcomes for Webroot after move to AWS Savings and service enhancements: • Removed colocation and hardware costs • Simplified deployment • Dramatically increased scalability, reliability and availability • Customer satisfaction with services increased • Engineer recruiting and retention improved • Dev. Ops standardization and improvements • Cost controls and planning on COGs Estimated cost savings and efficiency gains: $2 M / year © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
hlonas@webroot. com © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
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