Cisco’s Tom Gillis On Building The ‘Security Cloud’ And New Feature Updates

▤ Summary

Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco Security Business Group, told CRN that the first examples of its Security Cloud vision will debut this spring starting with the RSA Conference in late April, and will kick off a “steady drumbeat” of new feature rollouts for the platform. As the world’s IT infrastructure turns into “four big computers” — AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and on-premises data centers — Cisco believes it’s perfectly positioned to provide the “security layer that sits up on top of those four separate pieces of infrastructure,” Gillis said in an interview. “The same way that Kubernetes became this ubiquitous layer across all different forms of infrastructure, we think we can do something similar” for securing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, he said. Meanwhile, on SASE — which is focused on enabling secure access to corporate applications resources for distributed workforces — Cisco said it’s extending support to additional parts of its portfolio. He previously worked at Cisco from 2007 and 2011 after the company acquired IronPort Systems, where he was a member of the founding team.

▦ Linked Companies

Cisco

$1B+