Nikolai Gubanov

Nikolai Gubanov (CCIE Security #36666) is a Customer Delivery Architect in Cisco Customer Experience (CX), based in Lisbon, Portugal. He has 20 years of experience in security and has spent all 10 of his years at Cisco in Professional Services, leading firewall design and delivery for enterprise and service-provider customers. He works across the Cisco Security portfolio, including Secure Firewall, ISE, Secure Network Analytics, Secure Endpoint, Umbrella, Duo, Secure Access, Multicloud Defense and XDR. Nikolai is a co-inventor of US Patent 12,647,395, which automatically generates firewall rules from network flow telemetry, and he is bringing AI-assisted engineering into everyday security delivery. He spoke at Cisco Live Amsterdam 2026 on AI for firewall management and holds an MSc in Computer Science.