Alexander Rubin

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Principal Security Engineer, RDS Red Team Lead, Amazon Web Services

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Alexander is a Principal Security at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS Red Team.

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Percona Live 2026 Bay Area

30 Minute Presentation May 28 · 3:45pm–4:15pm · Lovelace

Active Security Honeypot for MySQL and PostgreSQL: protecting databases from ransomware attacks

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Bio

Alexander is a Principal Security at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS Red Team.

Alexander was working as MySQL principal consultant/architect for over 15 years, started with MySQL AB in 2006 (company behind MySQL database), Sun Microsystems, Oracle and then Percona. His security pentest/red teaming interest started with playing CTFs and performing opensource security research. Alexander is leading RDS (relational database as a service) Red Team at Amazon Web Services.