mindfulness

March 18, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

How Cisco Stepped Up When I was Diagnosed with MS

You never know when life will throw you a curveball. Two and a half years ago, I had just started a new role at Cisco and was getting off a plane in Denver, Colorado to meet my new team at an offsite. It was a time of change and excitement. There was just one inconvenient concern. Before the trip, I…

June 20, 2017

INNOVATION

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, the Brain, and the Mind

In the past five years, humanity has seen incredible advances in almost all areas of activity and knowledge. We’ve witnessed an unparalleled level of disruption by innovative entrepreneurs entering established industries and turning them on their head. Simultaneously, we’ve seen an explosion of rese…

March 4, 2015

SECURITY

The Seven Wonders of User Access Control: Part II

In the first of a two-part blog series, The Seven Deadly Sins of User Access Controls, my colleague Jean Gordon Kocienda provided fresh insights into overly-permissive user access controls as a common underlying cause of data breaches. In this blog, I address the solutions to those “Seven Dead…