TK Keanini, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco, sits down with Dave and Stu at Cisco Live EU Barcelona 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. #CLEU #Cisco #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/07/innovation-spiral-cisco-navigates-escalating-security-threats-enterprise-cleur/ Innovation spiral: How Cisco navigates escalating security threats for the enterprise In the 1960s, the Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohías wrote a comic strip for Mad magazine called “Spy vs. Spy.” It featured one character dressed in white and one in black who were continually at war with each other, inflicting harm and alternating between victory and defeat. At the time, Prohías’ cartoon was a commentary on the Cold War, but it could well serve as a metaphor for the current state of the information-security world today. Hackers break into systems and then security professionals strike back to reclaim lost data and improve defenses using new technologies. The cycle is ongoing as the threats multiply in scale. In its role as one of the largest networking companies in the world, Cisco Systems Inc. finds itself playing an increasingly significant role in computer security. Its position was amplified during the firm’s Cisco Live gathering in Barcelona last week as a number of security-related announcements were made, which, in aggregate, highlighted the “spy vs. spy” climate that has infused the enterprise security world. “It’s kind of an innovation spiral,” TK Keanini, distinguished engineer and product line chief technology officer for analytics at Cisco, said during an interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, at Cisco Live. “We innovate, we make it harder for them, and then they innovate and make it harder for us. On Monday, we’re safe. On Tuesday, we’re not. And on Wednesday, it switches again.” (* Disclosure below.)