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Raja Balakrishnan

Product Manager

Security Business Group

Raja Balakrishnan is a Senior Product Manager in the Cisco Cloud Security Product Management team. He focuses on Product Management of the Cisco Cloud Access Security where he is responsible for all Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) functionality as well as its seamless integration with other Cisco Security products. In this role, he helps customers increase cloud application and SaaS adoption by helping them mitigate their cloud security challenges such Shadow IT, Shadow Data, Cloud Data Loss, and Malicious Activities.

Prior to this product, Raja worked on several key products at Cisco across Networking, Collaboration, and Security technologies. Most recently he led the Product Management efforts for remote access technologies on Cisco’s flagship network security product.

Raja has a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergrad degree in technology from University of Madras.

Articles

November 11, 2015

SECURITY

Gaining Productivity and Peace of Mind: Cisco Cloud Access Security

3 min read

Cloud applications are revolutionizing the way your employees can do their work. They enable Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), are inherently mobile, can be up and running in minutes, and allow users to collaborate with anyone from anywhere to get their jobs done. It’s no wonder that cloud app adoption is growing at unprecedented rates. According to Forrester, […]