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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.

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February 10, 2016

SECURITY

Built-In Security: Sharing the ‘How’

I work with a lot of customers discussing how they can reduce their cyber risk and increase resiliency with an effective security strategy. It’s easy to talk about leading practices for security, but figuring out how to put them into practice can be a whole other story. As I mentioned in a recent post, the […]

February 9, 2016

SECURITY

Protect Your Entire Digital Self

Cisco is proud to join the National Cybersecurity Alliance in its support of White House efforts to improve online security.

February 1, 2016

SECURITY

Are you protecting your organization with comprehensive security and trust?

With cyber threats escalating, security has emerged as a critical business driver and competitive differentiator. Organizations that successfully embed security throughout their network infrastructure, policies, processes, and culture are able to reduce risk while creating sustainable business advantage. At CiscoLive Berlin this year, we will examine how Cisco is building foundational security into the underlying […]

January 21, 2016

SECURITY

Why Aging Infrastructure Is a Growing Problem

Defending a network against threats of growing complexity requires a mix of technology and policies that are as sophisticated as the campaigns created by attackers. A necessary component to an efffective defense includes tackling the low-hanging fruit—that is, basic tasks such as patching vulnerabilities and updating old software. However, as we relate in the Cisco […]

December 21, 2015

SECURITY

Update for Customers

Following a recent Juniper security bulletin discussing unauthorized code, we have fielded a number of related questions from our customers. Being trustworthy, transparent, and accountable is core to our team, so we are responding to these questions publicly. First, we have a “no backdoor” policy and our principles are published at trust.cisco.com Our development practices […]

November 18, 2015

SECURITY

Introducing the Cisco Technology Verification Service

Building Trust and Transparency One Step at a Time Like all successful companies, we listen to our customers and strive to exceed their expectations. Our customers expect us to be trustworthy, transparent and accountable. As a company, there are many ways we are doing just that. We started this journey more than 10 years ago […]

October 15, 2015

SECURITY

What’s in Your Network? Verifying Trust with Integrity Verification Service

As we continue to observe National Cyber Security Awareness Month, it’s time this week to think about integrity verification and what it means for your network and your organization. As today’s network threats increase in sophistication, the resulting risks to a business’s or government agency’s network may go undetected for days, months or even years. […]

October 8, 2015

SECURITY

Cybersecurity: The Holistic Trust Approach

In the past few years, the security industry has invested heavily in the detection and containment of attacks and breaches as a primary focus of innovation. To help protect Cisco,...

September 18, 2015

SECURITY

IT Security: When Maturity is Overrated

In so many parts of life, the passing of time is a benefit. Wine and whisky mature, intelligence is gained, and friendships grow stronger. For those of us working in IT security, however, the passing of time brings new challenges. Prolonging the use of older technology exponentially increases risk and the resulting problems can cost […]