Cisco prepares for its greatest expansion of Technology: Vishak Raman

With the attack surface becoming far broader and more complex, safeguarding the employees, customers, and assets requires data privacy and security to be a top priority with the world becoming connected and digitised by the day. According to a Cisco survey, cyber threats have risen by over 25 per cent since the beginning of the pandemic, in more than 65% of companies in India.

Director, Security Business at Cisco India & SAARC, Vishak Raman in an interview threw light on how Cisco is driving the digital transformation with security in India.

As the threat landscape is widening and becoming more complex, Raman and his team focus on innovating simplified, cloud-delivered solutions that allow the customers to empower their hybrid workforces, virtualise their workflows and automate their operations seamlessly and securely.

Additionally, Cisco has the largest R&D centre in India outside of San Jose, our headquarters. Over the last 25 years, Cisco’s presence has evolved – from capability development to co-developing end-to-end solutions with customers, partners, and startups. Today, India is working on some of the most advanced technologies for Cisco. India R&D is helping Cisco transform its core businesses and enabling a majority of our portfolio to be delivered as a service. India is fast emerging as a centre of excellence for AI, Automation, and Security for Cisco. Learnings from India on AI, Security, Automation, and Analytics are now leveraged across our portfolio.

Our work in India enables customers to simplify their digital transformation and help them make better business decisions based on insights. The next decade represents the most remarkable expansion of technology we’ve seen yet, and Cisco in India is well-positioned to lead this expansion.

Cisco is enabling India to digitise at scale and speed, as we continue to help India and its businesses achieve their digitisation objectives. We already see a growing appetite for technologies that are easy to use, consume and pay for, while offering enterprise-grade security. For instance, Webex in India has seen the second-highest usage outside of the US during the pandemic – on an average; we have had over 12.5M meetings per month and over 100M participants in India. This was led not just by enterprises, but small businesses and entrepreneurs as well. In fact, the demand was so much that we launched our e-commerce portal in India to make it easy for customers to buy WebEx online.