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John Dominguez

Product Marketing

Cisco Security Business Group

John Dominguez is a product marketer in the Security Business Group at Cisco. With over 7 years experience in the networking and security industry, John is currently focused on the next-generation firewall marketplace. In his role, John is responsible for messaging and positioning, marketing strategy, content creation, sales and partner enablement, and product evangelism for the Cisco Next-Generation Firewall.

In his previous role, he marketed Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection product suite, including AMP for Endpoints, AMP for Networks, and Cisco’s “AMP Everywhere” campaign. Before that, John has worn many hats, including a stint in routing and switching product marketing, small business ownership, and general management for an industrial supply company.

John has an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from the University of Michigan, and a BA in Economics and Government from Dartmouth College.

John lives in San Francisco, California.

Articles

September 26, 2017

SECURITY

Uncover the Where, When, and How of an Attack with “Trajectory” from Cisco AMP for Endpoints

3 min read

You’re walking down the sidewalk, headphones in your ears, music blasting, and your head is buried in your phone reading a text message. CRUNCH. You look down and you’ve just stepped in a pile of… (no, not that)… broken glass. A car parked on the street was broken-into, and the glass from the shattered window […]

July 31, 2017

SECURITY

From the Trenches: 5 Ways Customers are Improving Security with Cisco AMP for Endpoints

3 min read

Does this sound like a day in your IT security life? Wake up, get coffee, drive to work, and battle an almost constant onslaught of attacks, while playing whack-a-mole with too many alerts. If so, we get it. You never know where the next attack will come from. And you’re probably on to the fact […]

July 21, 2017

SECURITY

Cisco AMP for Endpoints Included in Gartner’s “The Evolving Effectiveness of Endpoint Protection Solutions” 2017 A …

1 min read

Endpoint security comes in many different shapes and sizes: “Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)” “Antivirus (AV)” “Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)” “Next-Generation Endpoint Solutions” The list goes on. Faced with so many different options, it can be tricky to know which type of endpoint security tool is right for your organization. What does EPP do that […]

May 15, 2017

SECURITY

Cisco AMP for Endpoints Meets PCI and HIPAA Requirements for Compliance

1 min read

Cisco AMP for Endpoints was recently the subject of a thorough technical review and test to validate that the solution satisfies requirements in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 3.2 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. The Cisco Security Team is pleased to report […]

April 19, 2017

SECURITY

How to Choose a Next-Generation Endpoint Security Solution

5 min read

When organizations begin their search for an advanced, next-generation endpoint security solution to protect PCs, Macs, servers, and mobile devices, they have a lot of different vendors to choose from and a lot of questions. Can it prevent attacks? What kind of malware can it protect against? What if malware gets in, can it still […]

April 14, 2017

SECURITY

IDC Names Cisco AMP for Endpoints a Leader in 2017 Endpoint Security Marketscape

2 min read

Global analyst firm IDC recently named Cisco AMP for Endpoints a leader amongst endpoint security solutions in their report, “IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Endpoint Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection 2017 Vendor Assessment” (April 2017, IDC #US42385717). The IDC study examines market-leading endpoint security solutions from 11 different vendors, based on a variety of different parameters, including solution […]

February 9, 2017

SECURITY

EPP? EDR? Cisco AMP for Endpoints is Next Generation Endpoint Security

4 min read

You may be wondering why Cisco AMP for Endpoints was not included in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP). Traditionally, Gartner placed Cisco AMP for Endpoints within their Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category of endpoint security tools. But as buyer needs evolve, so does the market category. In fact, looking at […]

December 9, 2016

SECURITY

Prevent, Detect and Respond with Cisco AMP for Endpoints

4 min read

Cyberattacks are ever evolving to circumvent and evade “protection-only” technologies. Despite your best efforts to protect against compromise, a persistent attacker will eventually breach your defenses and get inside. Then what? IT security teams need to automatically detect a threat when it gets in. They need to know where it came from, how it entered, […]

June 8, 2016

SECURITY

AMP for Endpoints + Cognitive Threat Analytics = More Visibility than Ever Before

2 min read

No matter how many security tools you deploy to defend your organization, malware is going to get in. You need to see it if you want any chance of stopping...

April 11, 2016

SECURITY

Solving the Security Patchwork Problem

3 min read

Hackers today make it their job to understand your security technologies and how to exploit the gaps between them. And that’s the problem – there are a lot of gaps. In our own discussions with IT security pros, it isn’t unusual to find organizations that have deployed a patchwork of 40 to 60+ different security […]

March 29, 2016

SECURITY

The Power of an Integrated Threat Defense

2 min read

At RSA this year and last, Marty Roesch, VP and Chief Architect for Cisco’s Security Business Group, talked about the need of an integrated threat defense to drive systemic response. The idea is to correlate and analyze data and telemetry from the multiple security technologies that organizations have deployed across different control points. And then […]

March 21, 2016

SECURITY

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) vs Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)

4 min read

Many colleagues, customers, and Cisco partners have asked me, “Why isn’t Cisco AMP for Endpoints included in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)?” The answer to us is pretty simple. AMP was not categorized as a traditional “EPP,” and hence, was not included in the report. According to Gartner, “Endpoint protection platforms […]

February 2, 2016

SECURITY

Cisco AMP for Endpoints Adds New Features

2 min read

The threat landscape is ever-changing. Attackers continue to innovate and refine their tactics, and malware is more sophisticated than ever. New threats are surfacing every day, like the Angler exploit kit and the SSHPsychos DDoS attack. According to the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report, ransomware is exploding, Adobe Flash vulnerabilities continue to be popular with […]

April 8, 2015

SECURITY

Cisco AMP Just Got Better – Enhancements for Continuous Breach Detection, Response, and Remediation

2 min read

Breaches happen. It makes us cringe to say it, but it’s the obvious truth. A week doesn’t go by that we don’t hear about the latest breach in the news. All of us in the IT security industry would love to say, “our technology can prevent all breaches.” But it’s a pipedream. Being able to […]

April 1, 2015

SECURITY

Endpoint Visibility to Combat Advanced Attacks – I Want That

2 min read

Protecting data, maintaining compliance, and enabling the business is a balancing act. Put too many controls in place and you inhibit workflow. Rely exclusively on traditional security tools and you lack the visibility to detect and respond to advanced attacks quickly. The industrialization of hacking has created an effective and efficient criminal economy. Attackers are […]

December 22, 2014

SECURITY

Continuous Protection on the Endpoint: Show Me

2 min read

Advanced malware is dynamic, elusive, and evasive. Once it slithers into the organization’s extended network, it can very quickly proliferate, cause problems, and remain undetected by traditional point-in-time security tools. These tools poll or scan endpoints for malware or indicators of compromise at a moment in time, and then do not evaluate again until the […]

November 19, 2014

SECURITY

Endpoint Protection and Least Prevalence

2 min read

Let’s face it, malware is everywhere now, and it’s here to stay. The statistics are staggering. According to the 2014 Cisco Annual Security Report, “100 percent of the business networks analyzed by Cisco had traffic going to websites that host malware” and 96 percent of the business networks analyzed had connections to known hijacked infrastructure […]

October 29, 2014

SECURITY

The Value of Endpoint and Network Protection Together

2 min read

As I’ve discussed in past blog posts, advanced malware and sophisticated attacks are relentless as they compromise environments using new and stealthy techniques. Modern malware is dynamic and exists in an interconnected ecosystem that is constantly in motion. It will use an array of attack vectors, take endless form factors, and launch attacks over time. […]