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Peter Romness

Cybersecurity Programs Lead, US Public Sector

Peter Romness is a Business Development Manager at Cisco Systems Inc., focusing on cybersecurity in the U.S. Public Sector. He has been helping Government customers achieve their missions for almost 30 years at companies such as Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and Panasonic. He is now focused on helping protect Government networks from cybersecurity threats. His responsibilities include promoting Cisco’s thought leadership within the Cybersecurity and IT communities. He is also responsible for bringing cybersecurity solutions to market and developing new cybersecurity solutions for US governments. Though Peter has an engineering degree, his main goal is to make cybersecurity easier to understand and take action upon for non-technical business leaders.

In his spare time, Peter enjoys his family and friend, outdoor sports, travel, and sports cars.

Articles

May 6, 2019

GOVERNMENT

Cyber Defense Clinic for Education

Is the United States facing a cyber-gap? You may not realize it, but right now there are over 313,000 cybersecurity jobs open in our private and public sectors. And according to CyberSeek, “there is a dangerous shortage of cybersecurity workers in the United States that puts our digital privacy and…

August 2, 2018

GOVERNMENT

CDM: the new driver of cybersecurity and IT modernization

Recently, I had the opportunity to join many of my industry, agency, and Capitol Hill colleagues at the U.S. Capitol to discuss the Department of Homeland Security’s ongoing Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program. As the CDM program enters Phase 3, it is refreshing to witness the broad…

June 28, 2018

GOVERNMENT

The big myth about security patch management

“If we had just kept our systems patched, the malware wouldn’t have been a problem.” After every major breach you usually hear those words echoed across news media. You might even pause for a moment and tell yourself that if the victims had just patched their systems, they would have bee…

October 13, 2017

EDUCATION

An IT Security Top 5 from the University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is using October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM), to emphasize the creative and common-sense actions they are taking to improve cybersecurity and educate users across campus about the importance of being smart online. Higher education organizations fac…

October 19, 2016

EDUCATION

Join us at EDUCAUSE to Learn How to Constrain Cyber Attackers

Like Renee Patton who is Gearing up for EDUCAUSE 2016, I am equally thrilled to be co-presenting with Bruce Maas and Bob Turner from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Our session, Effective Threat Detection: The Key to Constraining Our Attackers on Thursday October 27th from 8 to 8:50 am, will…

March 15, 2016

GOVERNMENT

Cybersecurity for Defense: Blog Series Kickoff

The United States increasingly relies on the Internet to support our economic, health, and social services. However, the more we utilize network connections, the more cognizant we must be of potential cyberattacks from enemies seeking to access information and to destabilize our country. We’ve seen…

December 10, 2015

GOVERNMENT

Advanced Malware Protection Can Help Keep Defense Agencies’ Networks Secure

It seems like these days, you can’t read the news without seeing something about a cyberattack or data breach. While the digital economy and the Internet of Everything (IoE) are creating huge opportunities for value creation in both the public and private sectors, they also create huge opportunities…

October 27, 2015

GOVERNMENT

Happy National Cyber Security Awareness Month!

Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Here at Cisco, we understand how important cybersecurity is in today’s interconnected world. Because the Internet touches an increasingly large part of our lives, it’s necessary to engage and educate the public about how to stay p…

October 27, 2015

SECURITY

Our Commitment to Cybersecurity Education and Training

Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Here at Cisco, we understand how important cybersecurity is in today’s interconnected world. Because the Internet touches an increasingly large part of our lives, it’s necessary to engage and educate the public about how to stay p…