Steven Song is a business manager at Cisco. Steven's primary responsibilities include working with customers to help them adopt strategic Internet technologies and solutions. Steven has worked extensively with the product business units, customers and the industry to accelerate customer networking solution adoption and deployment. Prior to his present position, Steven was a Security Architect for the Corporate Security Programs Organization at Cisco. Steven holds a PhD degree (Ohio State University) in Physics. Steven is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
There are a lot of great technologies that have outstanding business benefits but are not widely deployed. For example, 802.1X for wired networks can determine appropriate network access based on user identity and additional contextual information. The technology is already built into the network to help customers improve their network security. If you ask your […]
“Activate the IT Transformation with Cisco Unified Access” Webinar Series: Part II Network Deep Dive, April 17 Your network is going through rapid changes as your user and business requirements continue to evolve. Before long (if it’s not already happening), the edge of your network will more than likely transition to a high performing Gigabit desktop […]
The headline at Cisco Live London this year is undoubtedly the major advancement of Cisco Unified AccessTM. Thousands of attendees witnessed the introduction of new Unified Access products that simplify network design by converging wired and wireless networks. It’s been a long journey to London and here’s how we got there.
In my previous posts, I discussed with you the importance of unified policy and management as you respond to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. The Cisco Unified Access solution brings “One Policy. One Management. One Network” to help you with your BYOD initiatives. Today I’ll take a look at the third pillar of Cisco Unified Access, […]
As part of my work at Cisco, I get to talk to customers very often. Through these conversations, I learn what works for them and what concerns them. Lately, I’ve been hearing a common theme from a lot of customers: in many organizations IT staff is small and not growing while they are being asked […]
Several years ago, I had a conversation with an IT manager about his company’s network security that I still remember today. He said: “We’re losing our battle over internal network security. We cannot keep up with our vendors and contractors who bring in all kinds of devices to our network. We may turn our internal […]