Sujata Ramamoorthy

Sujata Ramamoorthy is a Sr. Director, Information Security at Cisco and leads the group. Ramamoorthy and her team partner across Security & Trust Organization, Supply Chain, IT and various Product teams to deliver foundational capabilities to secure Cisco’s business operations and Cloud Offers. This includes establishing security standards, partnering to build foundational security capabilities, delivering consumable security stacks in strategic environments in a DevSecOps model and driving adoption across Cisco.

Prior to her current role, Ramamoorthy has held several leadership roles in Information Security. She was the CSO for Cisco’s Inter-Cloud Services (CIS) and prior to that Co-led a CIO level multi-year Pervasive Security program. In her leadership, the team executed on security strategies and practices that addressed several global trends, including a large Private Cloud build-out for Cisco’s SaaS offering, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative, borderless collaboration experience, increasing adoption of Mobile-Cloud based applications, Global Network and Data Center transformation and Continuous Delivery. She led and scaled several advanced capabilities around Identity and Access, Data Security, Threat detection and containment and won awards for governance programs such as Unified Security Metrics while establishing key roles and competencies in IT such as Security Primes and Partner Security Architects.

Ramamoorthy regularly shares her experience and expertise on Information Security by participating in executive briefings to Cisco customers and industry conferences and forums, such as Cisco Live, Secure World, and Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) on Security, Risk and Privacy. She serves on the advisory board for Secure World Bay Area and as a Content Committee member in EWF, sharing her real world experience to design and facilitate the events at the conferences. She and her team also partner with the Security Business Unit of Cisco to be Cisco’s first and best customer shaping requirements and continually improving the products to be enterprise and cloud ready. This in part helped Cisco IT be awarded the Best Security Department of the Year 2014 and 2016 from Info Security Products Guide.

Ramamoorthy’s experience at Cisco transcends both the business and technical realms, as she strives to generate innovation and business value for Cisco, its partners and customers. Prior to joining the Information Security team in 2007, she has held senior positions in technical services engineering, advanced services, and information technology at Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco in 2000, she held technical roles at Informix and Hewlett Packard Corporation, developing database kernel-level software, ERP systems, web-based CRM and Technical Support solutions. She holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Telecommunication.

Ramamoorthy has also received industry recognition for her leadership. She received the Gold Winner for the 2014 Women World Awards for Female Executive of the Year and the Golden Bridge Bronze Award for Security Woman Executive of the Year 2014.

Ramamoorthy lives in the Silicon Valley in California with her husband who is also a techie and their two children. She enjoys music and outdoor activities like hiking in her free time.