Designing for Security

Designing  for people to connect and protect  easily and  securely

Our Practices

Product Design

We help craft intuitive, learnable, and cohesive products, so implementing and experiencing security is the easiest thing for our customers.

Design Research

We inspire and inform by deepening the understanding of human context, needs, behaviors, and motivations.

Design Operations

We champion our people, tools, and processes to facilitate team collaboration and efficiency in the delivery of impactful design.

Design Engineering

We enable the crafting of beautiful, accessible, and performant user interfaces through processes and tooling that bring design and engineering work closer together.

Content Design

We design in words, concepts, systems, and terminology using intentional voice and tone to communicate clearly with our customers about security.

Design Thinking

We enable the flow of ideas through teams and individuals by creating alignment, vision, and creative solutions.

Blog

Stories From Design

An intersection of design, creative culture, and perspectives on security.

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Quote

"In the rapidly evolving security market, new threats are met with new defenses daily, complicating the management of an ever-expanding toolkit. Our approach to security design is what sets us apart; we have transitioned from a technology-centric focus to one that prioritizes the human experience. At the end of the day, a security professional’s job is not to manage tools—their responsibility is to ensure people safely access the data and applications they need. We make that process simpler and safer." - Jason Cyr, Vice President of Security Design

About

Cisco Security Design

The Cisco security design community works to empower everyone at our organization to improve that experience and understand the impact we have on our users.

Our team shows up for each other every day to cultivate a trusting environment. We share our work, question assumptions, and make sure everyone has the tools they need to thrive.

Careers

Join Us

We’re a multi-talented group of people trying to make security easier to use. We’re always looking for talented and kind people to join our team.

Open Design Roles