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Anthony Grieco

SVP & Chief Security & Trust Officer

Security and Trust Organization

As Chief Security & Trust Officer at Cisco, Anthony Grieco leads an organization of security and privacy experts that manage risk, build resilient digital infrastructure, protect Cisco’s enterprise, and enable customer and partner success. It drives cyber resilience across the company’s operations, people, products, and services that aims to provide a secure foundation for our digital world. Under Anthony’s leadership, Cisco has built strong partnerships with customers, governments, and partners globally to enable business growth and transformation by accelerating the use of trusted technology, development and implementation of secure processes, policies, and culture. Over his 25 years at Cisco, he has held a variety of leadership roles in development engineering, product management, marketing, and strategic planning. Anthony has made multiple contributions to industry standards through his time spent with working groups at the World Economic Forum, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council. As a trusted advisor he is regularly asked to share insights at industry events and is sought out by global governments and industry leaders for his perspective on cybersecurity trends and best practices. Anthony earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama Birmingham and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and daughter.

Articles

April 25, 2019

SECURITY

Trust is Not a Light Switch

4 min read

The path to earning and maintaining the position of trusted partner is a privilege, and one which never fully ends.

November 14, 2018

SECURITY

Thinking Global and Acting Local to Close the Skills Gap

3 min read

Cybersecurity empowers organizations to enable trust, move faster, add value and grow.

October 15, 2018

SECURITY

Disruption on High: Managing Cyber Risk in a Multicloud World

3 min read

Digital transformation is happening and with it comes the pain of disruption. For many organizations around the world, it looks like this...

September 26, 2018

SECURITY

Securing Critical Infrastructure in the Digital Age

3 min read

In order for critical infrastructure to be ready to take on the cyber risks of today (and tomorrow) will require a holistic strategy.

July 9, 2018

SECURITY

Transparency and the CLOUD Act: The Importance of Evolving Transparency Reports

3 min read

Not only have we added new categories to our Transparency Report– such as the CLOUD Act – but we’ve also made enhancements to make it easier for our customers to read and interpret these requests.

May 17, 2018

SECURITY

Joining the Charter of Trust

2 min read

At Cisco, we chose to join the Charter because it closely aligns with our core values and principles we use to establish explicit trust with our customers and industry partners.

February 6, 2018

SECURITY

The Role of Transparency in our Digital Economy

3 min read

It’s no surprise the world is going digital. With this transition comes the opportunity for economic growth, job creation and global competitiveness but also the risk of cyber-attacks for monetary...

October 31, 2017

SECURITY

Security as a Strategic Imperative

2 min read

In the digital era, every company is considered a technology company. Whether you provide electricity, banking or public transportation, you are increasingly dependent upon the internet and network connectively. If...

October 17, 2017

SECURITY

Tackling the Threat Landscape with Innovative Partnerships

3 min read

As countries digitize to expand economic growth, promote a secure environment for investment, job creation and global competitiveness, cyber attackers are also seeing the monetary and political opportunity to exploit digital expansion and its data to their advantage. The dynamic threat landscape is not a challenge to be solved by one organization, one product, or […]

July 3, 2017

SECURITY

Automating Explicit Trust

2 min read

We’ve talked about the market transition from implicit to explicit trust. It’s not enough to go on the word of an individual or the reputation of a vendor, customers are demanding explicit trust. Explicit trust is trust that is earned, not assumed. In other words, our customers are demanding evidence to confirm trust. I am […]

May 18, 2017

SECURITY

The Network’s Role in Securing the IoT

3 min read

Over the past few weeks, I’ve blogged about the importance of having a holistic security strategy for the Internet of Things (IoT). Now is the time to really amp up security and privacy by design at the endpoint device level. Everyone has a role to play. We know that enterprises are struggling to secure their […]

April 18, 2017

SECURITY

Demanding a Plan for Cyber Resilience in the IoT

3 min read

Earlier this month, I wrote about the need for a holistic security strategy for the Internet of Things (IoT). It’s more than securing a ‘thing’ within the IoT – it’s about building resilience for the whole system. Cyber resilience is about managing risk; identifying potential risks, evaluating the likelihood of them occurring and their negative […]

April 6, 2017

SECURITY

Yesterday’s Cyber Posture Just Won’t Work

2 min read

Many enterprises are still relying on yesterday’s cyber protection methods and infrastructure for their IT digitization efforts. Enterprises must also update their approach to cyber resilience in order to protect the full breadth of their operations.

April 4, 2017

SECURITY

IoT Isn’t Just About the ‘Thing’

3 min read

Internet of Things (IoT) is the term du jour. As adoption increases the natural question becomes, how has it been secured? To understand an effective security strategy for IoT, we first need to understand where the value from IoT is generated. The ability to use data, collected from a variety of locations and sources, to […]

March 9, 2017

SECURITY

Three Essential Elements of a Reliable Cyber Resilience Strategy

3 min read

Next week’s NCSA Nasdaq Cybersecurity Summit in New York will focus government and private sector leaders on two priorities—developing a strategic approach to combating pervasive cyber threats and creating a culture of cybersecurity across enterprises. These are critical issues that Cisco is addressing head-on, and we are excited and proud to be a part of […]

December 13, 2016

SECURITY

Why the “Seven Steps of Cyber Resilience” Prove Critical for Digital Transformation

3 min read

Organizations aren’t just talking about digital transformation – they’re doing it: More than 75 percent of global business leaders cite digitization as a top strategic priority and nearly seven in ten say their company will meet its digital transformation objectives this year, according to a recent survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit. To advance these […]

October 24, 2016

SECURITY

IoT: Securing the Next Chapter of the Digitization “Book”

3 min read

The Internet of Things (IoT) era is here: Nearly two-thirds of organizations currently collect data from equipment, devices or other connected endpoints and use it for a business purpose,...

August 10, 2016

SECURITY

The Time Is Now for Organizations to Address Their Aging Infrastructure

3 min read

Cisco has been working to draw attention to the hidden security risks organizations face by not properly maintaining their aging infrastructure and patching vulnerable systems. Threat actors, including ransomware operators, are using vulnerable Internet infrastructure as a foothold to launch their campaigns. The trends lead us to believe we should expect to see more of […]