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Raviv Levi

VP, Security Strategy & Innovation, Cisco Security Business

Security Business Group

Raviv Levi heads the Strategy & Innovation Office for Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG).  In this role Levi focuses on strategic planning across Cisco’s Security business to drive continued industry leadership. Additionally, Levi leads innovation - both through organic and in-organic means - for the breadth of Cisco’s Security portfolio, which provides market leading products and solutions in critical control points to secure users, devices, networks, and applications & data. Previous SBG roles held by Levi include VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Cloud and Network Security, where he had responsibility for long-range strategy and planning for Cloud and Network Security products, technologies, and experiences.  He was also VP of Product, Cloud Security, overseeing product development, business development, and strategy for all Cloud Security products, producing industry-leading SASE solutions such as Umbrella.   Prior to joining SBG Levi led Networking and Security Product Management for Cisco’s Meraki Business where he helped define and build Meraki’s cloud-managed technology portfolio to meet the rapidly evolving demands of digital businesses. Earlier career roles include executive positions in product management as well as engineering management. Levi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in business administration, both from the Tel Aviv University.

Articles

May 17, 2021

SECURITY

Rapidly executing on SASE vision with new cloud security enhancements

4 min read

Rapidly executing on SASE vision with new cloud security enhancements including automated Umbrella and Meraki MX integration and Snort 3 IPS protection from the Umbrella cloud-delivered firewall.