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Dr. Gee Rittenhouse

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Security Business Group

Gee Rittenhouse is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG). With strong executive management skills and deep technical experience, he is responsible for the company's global security business including strategy, portfolio, and architecture. Previously, he was the senior vice president of engineering for SBG, where he was responsible for development efforts across the business.

In 2014, Gee was named one of Cisco's Rising Stars by CRN after he was recruited by John Chambers to help the company shape its cloud and virtualization strategy. As vice president and general manager of Cisco's Cloud and Virtualization Group, he accelerated development of the company’s software stack, NFV and SaaS consumption model.

Prior to joining Cisco, Gee served as president of Bell Labs where he led the extensive transformation of the organization that followed the merger of Bell Labs and Alcatel's Research group.

As a highly respected IT industry leader with more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Gee is often a featured speaker on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, management, policy, applications and security. He has appeared before the U.S. Congress, U.S. FCC, European Presidential Commission, and World Economic Forum. He has twice been elected to the Global Telecoms Business Power 100, published numerous articles, and holds more than a dozen patents.

Previously, Gee served as a member of the advisory board for the University of California, Santa Barbara Computer Engineering Department, chairman of the board of Green Touch, and board member at the ALU Foundation, which has the goal of educating disadvantaged women worldwide. Currently, he is a senior member of IEEE and was the previous recipient of the IEEE Communication Quality and Reliability (CQR) Chairman’s Award.

Gee has a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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October 29, 2019

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SECURITY

Cisco Named a Leader in the 2019 Forrester Zero Trust Wave

Cisco has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2019 report—a validation of Cisco’s multi-year zero-trust vision and strategy.

September 19, 2019

SECURITY

Cisco Named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls

Cisco once again named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, validating our multi-year journey to reimagine the firewall as the foundation of integrated security platforms.

June 11, 2019

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SECURITY

Branch Security for the Digital Age

As you transition to SD-WAN and DIA, trust Cisco to bring together the best in SD-WAN with the most effective, most reliable, and simplest cloud security to protect it.

March 4, 2019

SECURITY

Better: Cisco Security Drives Innovation, Growth and Empowers Customers

Today, 250,000 organizations globally are placing their trust in Cisco Security. With our world-leading threat intelligence by Cisco Talos, we block billions of threats every day.

November 14, 2018

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SECURITY

Reinvent Branch Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN Security

The proliferation of the cloud has allowed users to connect to applications and data from anywhere and from any device, which has been a net gain for businesses that have...

October 1, 2018

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Securing Access for the New Perimeter with Duo Security

Together, Cisco and Duo are designing infrastructure for the extended enterprise where users, devices and applications are the center of the modern security architecture.

October 4, 2018

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SECURITY

Cisco Named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls

We believe our position in this influential report is validation of our simple, open and automated approach and execution towards being our customers' #1 security partner.

April 10, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Redefining Security for the Modern Data Center in a Multicloud World

Cisco is offering our Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Tetration, Stealthwatch and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technologies as a comprehensive, integrated solution that enables effective security that follows the workload everywhere.

February 25, 2018

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Introduces a 5G Security Architecture to Enable Secure Network Transformation

Cisco’s 5G security architecture combines artificial intelligence and deep learning to create the ultimate network.

February 27, 2017

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Enables a Secure Path to Network Transformation for Mobile Operators

The connected device has become the center of our world. For example: Wake up and ask a virtual assistant for the weather. Then, video chat with colleagues in preparation for a meeting...

June 10, 2015

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CLOUD

Intercloud Fabric: Simplifying the Hybrid Cloud

So. Much. Data. Every hour 300,000 new things connect to the Internet. That’s more than 50 million things a week. And by 2020, we estimate that 50 billion things and five billion people will be connected.  These are staggering numbers. And they speak to the rate of change that’s happening in IT and business. Now […]

June 20, 2014

DATA CENTER

Want to hear Cisco’s POV on the top 5 questions about the Future of Cloud?

According to GigaOM, the use of cloud-based resources will be what’s “next” for IT in preparation for an in-depth look at the infrastructure that will drive the next decade of application development. At the recent Structure event, GigaOM tapped into the minds of cloud-technology industry leaders, seeking insight into the “Top 5 Questions for the […]