At the Amazon Webservices Summit this week (#AWSsummit), Alert Logic’s VP of Emerging Products, Misha Govshteyn, stopped by theCube to discuss the security company’s partnership with AWS with hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick.

Dave Vellante opened the discussion by asking what solutions Alert Logic, as a small, but established, company, is offering its customers. Govshteyn explained that AL, as a security-as-a-service provider, offers several layers of security, but what they focus on is “cloud-enabled infrastructure, any environment that is being transitioned from traditional enterprise to cloud delivery model.”

Govshteyn, showing how Alert Logic is on its toes, agreed wholeheartedly with Dave about security being a “do-over” with the emergence of cloud. “I think there’s a number of industries that cloud disrupts, and people underestimate it. I think security is going to be turned upside down.” While very few deployments are still done in the cloud, Govshteyn explained we can already see that traditional security products don’t work. “When traditional vendors try to put themselves in the cloud environment, it doesn’t quite work. You’re going to have to be rebuilt from the ground up.”

But what does Alert Logic provide to customers that Amazon cannot do on its own? Govshteyn answers this by pointing out that AWS has always been efficient at securing its infrastructure services, but that the job of securing cloud instances becomes the customer’s responsibility. “That’s where we come in. There are traditional toolkits that security guys are used to buying, but they’re not built for Amazon. The can’t scale to Amazon, so there’s not a whole lot of options [besides Alert Logic].”