RSAC 2024: Panoptica Innovates in Cloud App Security

Papi Menon, vice president and chief product officer of Outshift by Cisco, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss new features added to the business unit’s cloud applications security solution.

Papi Menon, vice president and chief product officer of Outshift by Cisco, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss new features added to the business unit’s cloud applications security solution, in response to the threat landscape, including the advent of generative AI. Menon offers a forecast of where he sees modern security evolving, and sheds light on the Outshift’s role as an innovation lab within Cisco. Menon offers a forecast of where he sees modern security evolving, and describes his own approach to fostering innovation across the company. He also shares some thoughts on where generative AI is headed.

Papi Menon is the Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Outshift by Cisco, an incubation engine within Cisco. In his role, Papi leads product management, design, growth marketing, business development, sales, and customer success with a charter to incubate new and emerging technologies for the broader company. He has been in his role for about 10 months and joined Cisco after having product executive roles at companies like HashiCorp, Docker, GitHub, and MuleSoft.

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Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor

Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. He was part of the team that started Dark Reading and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Network World, InformationWeek and Mobile Sports Report.

In addition to information security, Sweeney has written extensively about cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. After watching successive waves of technological advancement, he still prefers to chronicle the actual application of these breakthroughs by businesses and public sector organizations.


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