Om Kumar

Om is a Senior Technical Leader in Cisco's Engineering organization. Across more than two decades in networking and security, he has worked on a recurring challenge: keeping critical infrastructure secure and available as technology and threats evolve. His experience spans data center and campus infrastructure, large-scale deployments, email and web security, firewalls, VPNs, and PKI, as well as performance challenges across compute, network, and storage. He has also led Nexus platform validation, deployment, and performance troubleshooting in the data centers of a large cloud provider and Campus networks, gaining a firsthand view of how security and reliability decisions play out in live environments. That combination of security experience and hands-on network problem-solving shapes his perspective on runtime protection and post-quantum readiness. He focuses on what these changes mean for the teams responsible for protecting networks, managing patches and change windows, and keeping