Cisco Launches Security Services Division
New consulting, product implementation and support, and managed services division reflects industry push to provide broader information security services to customers.
Cisco Tuesday announced that it's launched a new Services Security Practice, led by information security industry veteran Bryan Palma. The practice will comprise three different services: consulting, product implementation and support, as well as a managed services program aimed at enterprises and government agencies.
Palma, who last week joined Cisco as vice president of advanced services, previously led the cyber and security solutions group at Boeing. Prior to that -- among other jobs -- he was the global chief information security officer for PepsiCo. In the late 1990s he served as a special agent for the Secret Service, where he helped establish the agency's Electronic Crimes Task Forces, which investigate electronic crimes, cyberattacks and intrusions.
Cisco's new Services Security Practice includes some services that the networking equipment and services giant previously offered. "Cisco has always been in and around the services business for security, and making sure we've got the scale and capabilities to solve our customers' most difficult security problems," said Palma, speaking by phone.
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