How AI Is Changing Cloud Security | EP 81| Gal Ordo, Native

In this episode of Cyber Security Matters, hosts Harry Baldwin and Matt Rose are joined by Gal Ordo, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Native. Gal shares his journey from studying mathematics and developing early expertise in cybersecurity to leading product at AWS Security Hub and later founding Native.

The conversation explores why cloud security needs to move beyond simply detecting risk and towards secure-by-design environments. Gal explains how Native approaches cloud security across multiple cloud providers, and why AI is changing both the threat landscape and the role of security engineers. He also shares his views on product management, building early-stage teams, leadership, and the professional achievement he is most proud of.

Key Topics Covered

• Cloud security moving from detection to prevention

• The shift towards secure-by-design cloud environments

• Why multi-cloud consistency matters across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud

• Native’s approach to cloud security controls

• The challenge of turning security outcomes into practical cloud controls

• How AI is changing the cloud threat landscape

• Securing AI agents through deterministic controls

• Why AI can support security engineering without replacing human expertise

• The changing relationship between product management and engineering

• Building lean product teams at an early-stage start-up

• Hiring and developing strong security engineering talent

• Gal’s “disagree and commit” approach to leadership

• His transition from AWS to founding Native

• The professional achievement he describes as his proudest moment

• His advice for people entering cybersecurity: treat security as a puzzle to solve

About Gal Ordo

Gal Ordo is Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Native, a cloud security company focused on helping organisations build secure-by-design cloud environments. Native describes itself as a cloud security control plane that turns security outcomes into enforceable controls across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and OCI.

Before founding Native, Gal was a product leader for AWS Security Hub, where he worked closely with large enterprise customers and gained first-hand insight into the challenges organisations face when securing increasingly complex cloud environments. This experience helped shape the founding idea behind Native: that organisations need to move beyond identifying cloud risks after the fact and instead embed security outcomes directly into their cloud architecture.

Gal began his career in cybersecurity before pursuing an MBA in the US. His work today sits at the intersection of cloud security and product development, with a focus on helping organisations translate security objectives into practical, enforceable controls within their cloud environments.

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