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Andrew Akers

Product Marketing Manager

Security Product Marketing

Andrew is a Product Marketing Manager at Cisco, where he manages go-to-market strategy for Security Services Edge and threat-focused stories for Umbrella. He has spent nearly a decade working on cloud security solutions, including cloud-native security, identity and access management, and cloud security analytics.

Andrew enjoys learning about cloud technology and information security and turning that knowledge into positive outcomes for Cisco’s customers.

Andrew has a BA from the University of North Georgia

Articles

February 7, 2018

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SECURITY

Protecting your Public Cloud after Meltdown and Spectre

2 min read

In early January, researchers unveiled several major security vulnerabilities. Dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, these two vulnerabilities pertained to a hardware flaw in CPUs, including Intel, Qualcomm, and ARM processors....

January 31, 2018

SECURITY

Network Visibility for Mergers and Acquisitions

3 min read

Mergers and acquisitions bring major challenges to nearly every aspect of a business, but integrating two different networks while maintaining enterprise security is perhaps one of the most demanding trials...

December 18, 2017

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SECURITY

No One Can Detect Threats in Your Public Cloud Like Cisco

2 min read

Whether it is misconfigured cloud assets, phishing, or malware, protecting your public cloud workloads from threats is a challenge with expensive consequences.

October 25, 2017

SECURITY

Fireproofing your network with software-defined segmentation

5 min read

We often hear of the many challenges of the industrial revolution, but one of the scourges of this time period that often goes unmentioned was mass fires. To the people of the time, great fires threatened the very viability of industrialization. The number of fires bearing the moniker ‘great’ helps prove this point: The 1835 […]

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