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Scott Pope

Director, Product Management & Business Development

Security Technical Alliances Ecosystem

Scott Pope has held positions in network engineering, market strategy and technical product management at global service providers and networking equipment vendors covering a wide range of data and voice networking technologies. Since 1998 Scott has driven product strategy for many aspects of network security ranging from VPN and firewall to threat management for both wired and wireless networks. Scott currently concentrates his efforts on the Cisco Security technology partner ecosystem, as well other industry partnerships across the Cisco security portfolio.

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November 3, 2015

SECURITY

Cisco pxGrid Caps First Year in Market with Nine New Ecosystem Partners and More Security Standards Work

An often overused yarn of our day is that “we live in an increasingly more connected world.” While overused, I can’t think of any better way to describe what Cisco is doing in our security ecosystem with Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid). And it has been quite an active first year since release…

January 21, 2015

SECURITY

Using Cisco ISE Data to Drive Enhanced Event Visibility in Splunk

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is commonly associated with use as a network access policy, BYOD and AAA platform. But to do its job in network policy, ISE collects a great breadth of telemetry about network users and devices. Whether a device is trying to access the network or is already conne…

September 11, 2013

SECURITY

More Effective Threat Visibility Using Identity and Device-Type Context

Following my previous blog post about identity and device aware IT platforms making IT operations easier and more effective, I wanted to delve a little deeper into a specific element of the IT infrastructure: Security Event & Information Management (SIEM) and Threat Defense (TD) systems.…

June 13, 2013

SECURITY

Identity and Device Aware IT Platforms Make Life Easier

Life is generally a lot easier when you have all the facts.  Especially if those facts are actually accurate.  Nowhere does this ring more true than in the life of an IT professional. Often times a day in an IT shop is a lot like that grade school game of telephone where information gets passed down…