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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

February 24, 2016

PARTNER

Security and Trust That Is Foundational to Reducing Cyber Risks

2 min read

Did you know that Cisco created the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (Cisco SDL) to ensure that security is central through the entire product development process? Cisco SDL is a repeatable and measurable process we’ve designed to fortify the resiliency and trustworthiness of our offerings. Are your customers aware of this foundational security? Did you know […]

February 10, 2016

SECURITY

Built-In Security: Sharing the ‘How’

2 min read

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 1, 2016

SECURITY

Are you protecting your organization with comprehensive security and trust?

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

1 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

4 min read

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

3 min read

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 […]