John N. Stewart: Throughout his career spanning more than two decades, John Stewart has led or participated in security efforts ranging from elementary school IT design to national security programs. A heavily sought public and closed-door speaker, blogger to blogs.cisco.com/security, and 2010 Federal 100 Award recipient, Stewarts’ drive is simple: results.

As Vice President and Chief Security Officer for Cisco, Stewart leads the security operations, product security, and government security functions. His team focuses on global information security consulting and services, security evaluation, critical infrastructure assurance, source code security, identification management, and special programs that promote Cisco, Internet, national, and global security. He is also responsible for overseeing security for Cisco.com, the infrastructure supporting Cisco’s $36+ billion business, WebEX, the collaboration service providing 73 million online meetings per year, among other Cisco functions.

Stewart remains an active member in the security industry, having served on advisory boards for Akonix, Cloudshield, Finjan, Ingrian Networks, Riverhead, and TripWire. Currently, he sits on technical advisory boards for Core Security Technologies, Panorama Capital (formerly JPMorganPartners Venture), RedSeal Networks, and Signacert, is on the board of directors for KoolSpan, and a standing member of the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security.

Stewart holds a Master of Science degree in computer and information science with honors from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.