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Vaibhav Katkade

Product Manager

Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group

Vaibhav Katkade is a Product Manager in Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group covering Cisco TrustSec and Identity-based solutions on the Cisco Catalyst switching and ISR/ASR Series Routers. Prior to this, he has been a software engineer on the Cisco Catalyst 4500 series switching team with experience on L2 Protocols, L3 forwarding, Power-Over-Ethernet and System Management. He has also been a software engineer at Infineta, a WAN-Optimization startup, working on data deduplication algorithms. He has his Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC).

Articles

July 17, 2014

NETWORKING

Securing Your Network Before BYOD or IoT

If you’re a network engineer or have been following some of the recent trends in network security space, you may have come across terms such as “erosion of trust”, “zero trust ecosystem”, “the increased attack surface” and “new attack vectors”. What this means for a network engineer is that as…

April 30, 2014

NETWORKING

IWAN Wed: The Case for Direct Internet Breakout at Branch and IWAN

Cloud services and SaaS applications is enabling customers to accelerate their business processes and improve employee productivity while lowering their total IT spending. The Cisco IWAN solution is helping organizations adopt cloud applications with an improved user experience by enabling local int…

January 6, 2014

NETWORKING

Access Control with Cisco TrustSec: Moving from “IP Addresses” to “Roles and Attributes”

Today’s enterprise is a highly dynamic, and hyper connected environment where IT plays a critical role in connecting the users, devices, resources and corporate IT systems. Today’s employees are also highly mobile in nature and do not necessarily have a single workspace assignment. The IT department…