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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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July 27, 2015

SECURITY

The Best Defense is a Good Offense? Why Cisco Security Researchers Attack Cisco Technologies

This week, Cisco provided comments on the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) proposed cybersecurity regulations. These comments reflect the realities of how Cisco looks to protect both our customers and our products. They also emphasize the critical role that security researches, access to tools, and qualified talent have in cybersecurity. Cisco has […]

June 3, 2015

SECURITY

Trust and Transparency

“In our increasingly interconnected world, the Internet of Everything is making trust a critical element of how people use network-connected devices to work, play, live, and learn. The relentless rise in information security breaches underscores the deep need for enterprises to trust that their systems, data, business partners, customers, and citizens are safe.” – John […]

April 23, 2015

SECURITY

Industry Recognition for Security Excellence

Cybersecurity is a company-wide initiative. It touches every line of business, the technology, the fabric of the organization, its culture, brand and reputation. Customers are telling us that their most important issues are security and assuring the integrity of the products and data in their networks. In light of the heightened potential for cyber threats, trust […]

April 21, 2015

SECURITY

Cisco’s First Transparency Report on Law Enforcement Requests for Customer Data

As Cisco’s products and services evolve to new models, we find ourselves coming in contact with our customer’s data more regularly. We approach this role as stewards of this data with our customers interest foremost in our mind. One area of widespread interest as it relates to this data is how we interact with Global […]

April 25, 2014

SECURITY

Cisco, Linux Foundation, and OpenSSL

The recent OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability has shown that technology leaders must work together to secure the Internet’s critical infrastructure. That’s why Cisco is proud to be a founding supporter of the Linux Foundation initiative announced yesterday (April 24th). The initiative will fund open source projects that are critical to core computing and Internet functions, and […]

October 17, 2013

SECURITY

A Crypto Conversation: How We Choose Algorithms

Cryptography is critical to secure, trustworthy communications. Recent questions within the tech industry have created entirely new discussions about the cryptography underpinning our communications infrastructure. While some in the media have focused on the algorithm chosen for Deterministic Random Bit Generation (DRBG), we’ve seen many more look to have a broader crypto conversation. With this […]