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Andrew Turner

Senior Technical Marketing Manager

Security Business Group

Andrew is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager within the Security Business Group which makes Cisco’s Security Products. He is responsible for Service Provider Security and the Stealthwatch Security Analytics Products.

Andrew is a seasoned global technology leader having previously held positions in a number of technology areas for major wire-line and wireless Service Providers across Europe before joining Cisco in 2005.

At Cisco, he has focused on helping the world’s greatest technology companies realize their goals faster by accelerating their pace of change and has built and led high performance teams in Europe, America and Asia.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Engineering with Honors from Brunel University, London as well as numerous industry qualifications including CCIE, JNCIE and CISSP.

Articles

August 6, 2019

SECURITY

How to Save a Billion Dollars

In my last blog, I examined the state of cybercrime, fraud, and the losses associated with it. It was also in that blog that I brought up a particular threat that has caused more than $1 billion dollars in losses last year and shows no signs of slowing down. So, what is this increasingly expensive a…

May 6, 2019

SECURITY

Cybercrime and Fraud Part 1: Modern Tales of Piracy and Plunder

Calico Jack, Captain Blood, and Blackbeard. So many recognizable stories, books, and movies have been made about the period of stealing and looting exemplified by the golden age of piracy. Time will tell whether we see such romanticized stories of dashing rogues based on this new golden age of crimi…

Service Provider Security Architecture – Part 2

In my earlier blog post, I described the need for pervasive security and architectural approaches to enable secure, agile services against increasingly sophisticated attackers. Pervasive security is critical to the Open Network Architecture (ONA). But what does pervasive security actually mean?  Si…

Service Provider Security Architecture – Part 1

There has never been a more interesting time to be a Service Provider.  Today, we are in the midst of a once in a generation transition in technology that we last saw with the birth of the internet.  Today, the exponential growth in hyper-connectivity, the services that evolve upon it and the dawn o…