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Michael Geller

Principal Systems Engineer

Security and Threat Defense

Micheal Geller has been with Cisco for 21 years now, with engineering leadership roles in Sales and Engineering. Focal areas include Security, NMS/OSS, NFV and SDN.

Michael has over 30 years of experience in advanced technology development. He has held several leadership positions within Cisco, currently in the GSAT or Global Security Architecture Team, responsible for security architecture across Cisco.

Michael is a company leader for Security and Threat Defense. Michael leads the ATIS Cybersecurity efforts and is active in other standards and consortium groups. Michael is deeply involved in go to market and technical evolution of the Threat Defense and Security As A Service for Cloud Providers, Service Providers and Enterprise building on traditional and evolving architectures and controls such as SDN.

Prior to joining Cisco Michael designed and delivered the foundational technical systems for health care, education and public safety.

He holds a Masters of Science in MIS University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.

Michael is a fourth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and most enjoys the company of his Wife, Rebecca and two children, Sarah and Ben.

Articles

5G Security Innovation with Cisco

We have been working with Service Providers and various colleagues across the world to develop the threat surface and use cases to properly apply 5G today and in applications coming tomorrow.  We call your attention to our white paper and to our session on this topic at Cisco Live US in Orlando.  Th…

November 1, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Growing DDoS Threat: How to Protect Your Business

On 21 October a complex and sophisticated global DDoS attack was launched against US DNS provider Dyn, using a botnet of just 100,000 IoT devices. Despite Dyn’s quick response, countless customers including some of the world’s biggest internet companies were taken offline. Cisco partner Arbor Networ…