Season 2, Episode 1: Securing a Hybrid World, Hiral Vora, Director, User Experience Engineering

Episode length: 11 minutes Hiral and his team worked on Cisco Secure Access, our Security Service Edge (SSE) product, which secures applications wherever people are working by moving closer to the network’s edge. Hiral says that customers are feeling challenged securing hybrid environments, and they look to Cisco as a partner they trust with their security concerns. The team is working by the principle of move fast, because speed matters to get to market quickly. He sees a cultural shift at Cisco in how we are building technology, mapping products to customer intent and business outcomes. Key Moments: 1:31 Why hybrid work environments need SSE 2:31 Moving fast to bring product to market 4:10 First principles approach to identify basic elements of a problem 6:11 Shift to customer-outcome focus in building technology 7:03 Monthly meetups to showcase product features 8:14 Adopting Magnetic design system Episode transcript: https://cisco.box.com/s/0jq8vdn309zwicetl1vph2xxcd8k4b40