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Anubhav Swami

Principal Architect

Security Business Group

With over 23 years of experience across networking, cybersecurity, cloud, and data center technologies, Anubhav Swami currently serves as a Principal Architect (Director) for Cloud and Network Security at Cisco. His role spans strategy, innovation, evangelism, and architecture, driving the evolution of Cisco's cloud security portfolio and influencing product direction for solutions such as Secure Firewall, Multicloud Defense, Secure Workload, Hypershield, and Isovalent. He operates at the intersection of technical leadership and product vision, helping define architectures, validated designs, and product roadmaps while driving innovation and shaping how organizations adopt secure, scalable, cloud-native security. As a recognized Cloud Security Evangelist, Anubhav actively engages with customers, industry analysts, and internal teams to track market trends and translate insights into actionable architectures. He is passionate about simplifying complex security challenges through Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs), whitepapers, blogs, competitive analyses, and public speaking engagements. He holds dual CCIE certifications in Security and Data Center (CCIE #21208), along with AWS Solutions Architect certifications. He is also deeply invested in artificial intelligence, building solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI architectures, and RAG frameworks with Claude Code, Cursor, PyTorch, and LangChain. Beyond Cisco, Anubhav creates educational cybersecurity content on YouTube, and regularly contributes to the Cisco blog, continuing his mission to educate, lead, and inspire the cybersecurity community.

Articles

September 8, 2021

SECURITY

Simplified Insertion of Cisco Secure Firewall with AWS Route Table Enhancement

1 min read

New AWS Route Table enhancements offer simplified insertion of Cisco Secure Firewall in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud provides industry-leading capabilities.

July 9, 2021

SECURITY

Building a scalable RAVPN architecture in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Cisco Secure Firewall

3 min read

Learn how you can build a scalable RAVPN architecture in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Cisco Secure Firewall to provide employees secure remote access.

May 28, 2021

SECURITY

Cisco Secure Firewall insertion using Cisco cAPIC in Azure

4 min read

Cisco cAPIC runs on Azure and provides automated policy and visibility of workloads. Secure Firewall Threat Defense integrates with the cloud ACI environment using a service graph, providing threat protection.

May 26, 2021

SECURITY

Scalable Security with Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native

4 min read

Dive deeper into how Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native gives you the flexibility to provision, run, and scale containerized security services.

September 15, 2020

SECURITY

Cisco Secure Remote Worker Architecture for Azure

5 min read

Cisco Secure Remote Worker for Azure provides an a validated design for RAVPN. This Design includes Cisco AnyConnect, Duo, Umbrella and AMP.

July 23, 2020

SECURITY

Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for Azure

3 min read

Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for Azure defines security controls to protect workloads & applications deployed in Azure. It combines Azure security controls with Cisco Security controls to provide unmatched security.

December 3, 2019

SECURITY

Configuring Cisco Security with Amazon VPC Ingress Routing

4 min read

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new capability in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking that is designed to make it easier and more efficient for Cisco Security customers to deploy advanced security controls in the cloud.