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Ashley Pilbeam

Engineering Product Manager

Cisco Secure Firewall

Ashley is a Product Manager for the Secure Firewall software portfolio, helping to design and deliver features and capabilities to meet customer needs. He has 15 years’ experience working with Cisco firewalls as a customer, as part of the channel organisation and at Cisco. Prior to Product Management, Ashley spent time in Cisco’s Global Security Sales Organisation (GSSO) helping customers understand the Cisco Secure portfolio, helping them build security solutions to meet their needs.

Articles

November 18, 2025

SECURITY
Gayathri Nagarajan
Ashley Pilbeam

Identity-Driven Firewalls: Shaping the Future of Adaptive Security

7 min read

Active Directory compromises, credential theft, lateral movement. See how identity-driven security policies stop breaches before attackers escalate privileges.

December 14, 2022

SECURITY

Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

4 min read

The 7.3 release includes more features to deliver three key outcomes: see and detect more threats faster in an increasingly encrypted environment, simplify VPN and clustering operations, and lower the TCO of our security solution.