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Thomas Graf
CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Thomas Graf is the CTO of Cisco Security and Vice President Engineering for Multi-Cloud Products and a recognized leader in the fields of networking, security, and open-source technology. As the Co-Founder and CTO of Isovalent, he played a pivotal role in advancing eBPF-based networking and security solutions before the company's acquisition by Cisco.
With a deep background in Linux kernel development, Thomas previously served as a technical lead for Red Hat’s kernel team, where he contributed to foundational innovations in networking and security. As a pioneer in networking and security, Thomas has driven key advancements such as eBPF that have influenced the broader industry.
As one of the creators of Cilium, a widely adopted open source project for Kubernetes networking and security, Thomas has been at the forefront of the cloud-native movement, enabling enterprises to build secure, high-performance infrastructure at scale.
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Streamlining Tetragon Deployment with Amazon EC2 Image Builder
We are excited to announce the availability of the EC2 image builder integration for Isovalent Enterprise, which uses Tetragon as the underlying foundation, to streamline the deployment of Isovalent Enterprise via Amazon Machine Image (AMI) build processes.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What’s new with Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.16!
Join the creators of eBPF and Cilium to discover the exciting and new features in Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.16, including selective encryption, Egress GW IPAM, Gateway API GAMMA and more. Watch the recording!
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
What's Next for Isovalent?
What is next for Isovalent? This short video highlights the direction of the company and its continued focus on cloud native networking, security, and open source innovation around Cilium and eBPF.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What is the Isovalent Load Balancer?
This short introduction explains what the Isovalent Load Balancer is and where it fits. It covers eBPF-powered load balancing for Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic across physical servers, virtual machines, and Kubernetes...
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What is Isovalent Enterprise?
What is Isovalent Enterprise? This short video gives a concise overview of the enterprise offering built around Cilium, with a focus on networking, security, and observability for production Kubernetes environments.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What Does Cisco's Acquisition of Isovalent Mean for the Community?
This short video looks at what Cisco's acquisition of Isovalent means for the open source community around Cilium, Tetragon, and eBPF.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What Does the Cisco Acquisition Mean for Isovalent Customers?
In this video, Thomas Graf discusses the benefits of the Cisco acquisition for the Isovalent community and teases some of what they can expect in the future...
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What Are the Major Outcomes for Users of Cilium and Tetragon?
In this video, Isovalent's CTO and Co-founder Thomas Graf touches on what he sees as the major outcomes that users of Cilium and Tetragon can expect.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
What is Service Mesh?
Curious to learn how Service Mesh works? In this video, Thomas Graf, CTO of Isovalent, walks through Service Mesh's applications with Cilium and more broadly.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Cilium 1.15 - Gateway API 1.0 Support, Cluster Mesh Scale Increase, Security Optimizations and more!
In this blog post, learn about the new Cilium 1.15 Release!
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Cisco Completes Acquisition of Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent
Cisco acquires Isovalent, founded by creators of eBPF and the team behind Cilium and Tetragon, the leading cloud native solutions leveraging eBPF technology.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Tetragon 1.0 has Landed: What’s New and Exciting in Kubernetes Security?
Cilium Tetragon has reached the 1.0 milestone with production ready Kubernetes-aware security observability and runtime enforcement – all powered by eBPF.
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Natália Réka Ivánkó, Sr. Security Specialist PM