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Anthony Grieco

VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Security and Trust Organization

As Chief Information Security Officer at Cisco, Anthony Grieco leads an organization that defends the company, its partners, and customers from information security threats 7x24. It innovates and adopts the most effective security technologies and policies, reflects them in Cisco’s people, products, and services, and shares with customers. Anthony’s organization also includes the Trust Transformation Office, the team responsible for ensuring Cisco and its customers embed security, trust, and privacy into future strategies, solutions, and business models. The team instigates and incubates future challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity and privacy. Risk governance, next generation architectures, as well as supply chain security, are all efforts focused on ensuring security, trust, and privacy remains core to the future of digital business. 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 22 years at Cisco, he has held a variety of leadership roles in development engineering, product management, marketing, and strategic planning. Anthony is a trusted security advisor to industry, customers, and startups worldwide.

Articles

November 14, 2018

SECURITY

Thinking Global and Acting Local to Close the Skills Gap

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

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

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SECURITY

Securing Critical Infrastructure in the Digital Age

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

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SECURITY

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

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

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

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SECURITY

The Role of Transparency in our Digital Economy

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

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SECURITY

Security as a Strategic Imperative

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

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

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SECURITY

Automating Explicit Trust

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 […]