Rudra “Rudy” Mitra, who spent more than 27 years at Microsoft and most recently led its Purview data-security business, is joining Amazon Web Services as vice president of security services.
Mitra will oversee an AWS portfolio that includes tools such as GuardDuty and Security Hub, which companies use to track security risks across their cloud accounts. AWS recently added AI-specific threat detection to GuardDuty and, perhaps notably given today’s news, extended Security Hub to monitor AI workloads and security inside Microsoft Azure.
He will report to Chet Kapoor, the former DataStax CEO whom AWS hired last year as vice president of search, security and observability, a role that reports to AWS CEO Matt Garman.
“Rudy brings decades of security experience, a passion for building, and a deep understanding of what customers need as the security landscape continues to evolve,” Kapoor wrote on LinkedIn.
Mitra joined Microsoft in 1999 straight out of college, working on early efforts to deliver Office as an online service before launching Purview, the company’s data-security and governance product, in 2014. He announced his exit from Microsoft last week, addressing what was next at the time by saying only that there was “more on that soon.”
His departure comes amid a broader reshuffling of Microsoft’s security leadership this year under Hayete Gallot, who returned from Google in February to run the group and has been reshaping its executive ranks in recent weeks and months.
Gallot replaced Charlie Bell, who had joined from AWS in 2021 and continues at Microsoft as an individual contributor focused on engineering quality. She’s been overhauling the group’s product lineup, according to The Information, which reported last week that at least nine corporate vice presidents who reported to Bell have left the company this year.
Rohan Kumar left for Salesforce in June, Vasu Jakkal stepped down after six years. Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy departed this month after 28 years. Joy Chik, president of identity and network access, announced her retirement in April.
On the inbound side at Microsoft, Naseem Tuffaha returned in June to fill the corporate VP role Kumar had left, after nearly two decades at the company and a stint away.
When Gallot arrived, Microsoft named Ales Holecek, a longtime engineering leader, as the security group’s chief architect, reporting to her. David Weston, another veteran Microsoft executive, also reportedly shifted into the security unit earlier this year.
