Bob Gleichauf
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VP/Chief Technology Officer, Security Technology Group, Cisco
Bob Gleichauf
As CTO for the Security Technology Group, Bob Gleichauf is responsible for the development of secure network infrastructures across Cisco’s entire product line. Most recently, Bob led the development of Cisco’s Network Admission Control (NAC) initiative. His teams are also actively involved in research and development in the areas of Trust and Identity, Automated Response, and Data Leakage.
Bob has led numerous other security initiatives at Cisco, including overseeing the R&D for Cisco’s Intrusion Detection System (IDS) product line and the migration of IDS technology into the Cisco Catalyst 6000 platform. The IDS Module (IDSM) for the Catalyst 6000 is the industry’s first switch-based security solution, and a key component of Cisco’s end-to-end security solution. Under Bob's leadership, Cisco’s IDS Product Line has grown to provide appliance, host, and network-integrated IDS solutions. Bob and his team have been awarded eleven patents for their work in security and have over 15 other applications pending approval.
Bob joined Cisco with the WheelGroup acquisition in 1998, where he was the head of product engineering. Prior to WheelGroup, he was a senior engineering manager at a startup called IQ Software, which developed database report writing tools.
Before making the leap to the high technology industry, Bob was pursuing a PhD (ABD) in Early Human Prehistory at the University of Michigan, where he was a Rackham Fellow and had the distinction of working in East Africa with the world renowned Leakey family.
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