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Teresa Devine
Business Transformation Advisor
Retail & Hospitality
Teresa Devine is a business transformation advisor in retail for Cisco, helping large companies learn how to build their next-generation digital business. Her main focus is on large enterprises that are navigating the complexities of digital disruption to develop digital transformation security strategies.
Her background includes working as a vice president, CIO, and as acting CISO in Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers. Teresa is especially interested in security and information security – a vital area for today’s stores. Her experience in digital and e-commerce has given her a wide experience of commerce across channels and how they intersect to maximize business growth and market share.
Teresa studied business at Indiana University and continues executive management training at both MIT and Carnegie Mellon. Teresa and her family live just north of Atlanta and enjoy boating, golfing, and traveling. She provides guidance as a leadership mentor, and, as a volunteer, she travels to developing nations to help advance education through technology. Teresa is a major advocate for Cisco’s corporate social responsibility programs.
Articles
Top 5 Security Threats for Retailers in the Digital Age
As we enter Cybersecurity Awareness month, it’s an appropriate time to closely examine the specific security threats that retailers and hospitality providers face each and every day. In these industries, the overall “attack surface” is becoming dramatically more complex and hackers are more sophisti…
How to Build a Retail Culture of Security
Hello! My name is Teresa Devine, and I am a business transformation advisor here at Cisco. I help large enterprises in retail and hospitality define and execute digital transformation strategies. A key area of interest of mine is security: As a former Fortune 500 CIO and acting CISO, I understand th…
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