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Edna Conway

Chief Security Officer

Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain

Edna Conway serves as Cisco’s Chief Security Officer for its Global Value Chain. In this capacity, she develops and oversees the deployment of Cisco’s strategy to assess, monitor, and continuously improve the security and resiliency of its global value chain. Cisco's Value Chain Security Program spans its Supply Chain Operations, Engineering, Worldwide Partner and Services organizations. In addition, Conway drives Cisco’s supply chain cyber and security protection plan through its suppliers and channel partners.

Conway serves or has served on the company’s Cyber-Security Board, Risk and Resiliency Operating Committee, Global Compliance Governance Committee and Eco Board. She also serves as a leader in various international security, supply chain, and sustainability standards, public-private partnerships, and information and communications industry consortia (e.g., ISO, iNEMI, IPC, The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum, The Common Criteria and the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition).

Before joining Cisco’s Security and Trust Office, Conway has held multiple business, engineering and legal leadership positions at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, Conway was a partner in an international private legal practice and served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire.

Recognized for her expertise across industries, Conway is a frequent speaker for many organizations and companies. Her speaking venues have included government, academic and industry forums. Her work has also been featured in a range of publications, analyst reports, and case studies, some of which are referenced at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaconway

She holds an AB from Columbia University, a law degree from the University of Virginia and Executive Education credentials from Carnegie Mellon, New York and Stanford Universities and MIT.

Articles

November 27, 2019

SECURITY

A New Day for Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience

3 min read

It’s a new Day for National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.  While November is recognized as the month focused on this issue in the U.S., for some time, digital transformation has widened the aperture of our lens dramatically.

October 2, 2019

SECURITY

Security in A World of “WE” – Embracing Our Third Party Ecosystems

2 min read

Edna Conway, Cisco CSO Global Value Chain will discuss supply chain security challenges and tested, practical methods to addressing those challenges at NATO NIAS’19 in Mons, Belgium in October https://nias19.com

November 15, 2018

HIGH TECH POLICY

Collaboration Is Key to Driving Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Worldwide

2 min read

In our increasingly digital world, technological innovation not only presents new opportunities, but also raises new risks and challenges that must be addressed by industry, buyers, users, and policymakers. The...

October 24, 2018

SECURITY

Tackling the Growing Threat Landscape of ICS and the IIoT

4 min read

It is no secret that the proliferation of connected devices and sensors has introduced new and growing security challenges across every industry and enterprise.

July 18, 2018

SECURITY

Value Chain Security: The Ultimate Team Sport

2 min read

Cisco appreciates the importance of our third party ecosystem partners as they participate in the various stages of the lifecycle of our solutions—whether services, software or hardware.

November 22, 2017

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SECURITY

The Ecosystem of Women in Cybersecurity – A Key to our Future!

3 min read

Digitization is driving each of us across all industries to make dramatic changes to how we approach customers, products, services, and the always-on, real-time information rich marketplace.  This digital economy is gender agnostic. And, it is highly dependent on a connected global ecosystem. The message is clear—no one person, enterprise, industry, government or region can […]

September 26, 2017

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SECURITY

Do You Know How Secure Your Software Vendors Are?

1 min read

Third parties remain a critical source of security risk.  The recent discovery of malware embedded within the consumer application CCleaner, discovered by Cisco’s Talos cybersecurity research team, reminds us that cyber hygiene lies not just within ourselves. Talos stated in its September 18th Update: “Supply chain attacks are a very effective way to distribute malicious […]

July 21, 2017

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SECURITY

Value Chain Security: Mid-Year 2017 Perspective

2 min read

Value Chain Security is increasingly top of mind across industry and government.  The word is out - the value chain must be addressed to ensure viable security.  Whether the discussion...

October 31, 2016

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SECURITY

National Cybersecurity: A Collaborative Approach is Required

2 min read

As we wrap up National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the U.S., cybersecurity continues to be a top-of-mind issue for business, government and consumers alike. In February 2016, President Obama...