What does it take to design products that don’t just meant to look good but keep the world safe?In this episode of The Groundbreakin, we sit down with Meenakshi Thaploo a designer with 20+ years of experience across architecture, retail, fintech, and now cybersecurity at Cisco. From studying architecture to falling in love with visual design, to landing in one of the most complex and high-stakes design domains in the world  her journey is anything but conventional.This is not a conversation about aesthetics but a conversation about designing where failure has real consequences.IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL DISCOVER:1.Why cybersecurity design is fundamentally different from consumer product design2.What “zero trust” really means and how it shapes every single design decision3.The personas nobody talks about network admins, security analysts, and threat engineers4.Why making things simple is not the goal  and what the real goal actually is5.How AI is reshaping both the threat landscape and the design process simultaneously6.Why the best products are always built by design, product, and engineering as one unified team7.The three things every designer must know before entering the cybersecurity space8.How working in security changes the way you think about your own personal data and privacy