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Ryan Maclennan

Security Operations Engineer

Security Business Group Engineering

Ryan Maclennan is a Security Validated Design guide author using SAFE to make sure each guide is easy to understand, deploy, secure, and use. You can find his work on cisco.com/go/safe.

Articles

February 9, 2026

SECURITY

Integrating With Cisco XDR at Black Hat Europe

2 min read

Investigating indicators of compromise (IOCs) requires a unified view of security data. See how we integrated Cisco XDR with third-party tools and open-source models at Black Hat Europe.

July 2, 2025

SECURITY

Building an XDR Integration With Splunk Attack Analyzer

1 min read

Cisco XDR is an infinitely extensible platform for security integrations. Like the maturing SOCs of our customers, the event SOC team at Cisco Live San Diego 2025 built custom integrations to meet our needs. You can build your own integrations using the community resources announced at Cisco Live. It was an honor to work with […]

April 24, 2025

SECURITY

Black Hat Asia 2025: Identity Intelligence

3 min read

Last year, Black Hat asked Cisco Security if we could be the Single Sign-On (SSO) provider for all the partners in the Black Hat NOC. The idea is to centralize our user base, make access to products easier, provide easier user management, and to show role-based access. We started the proof-of-value at Black Hat Asia […]