For 30 years, technology has moved in one direction: turning information into intuitive interfaces Somehow, the smartest software we’ve ever built took us back to a textbox We’ve spent the last 2 years at @openuidev trying to fix that. 6 months ago we open-sourced it: 10K+ GitHub stars, 6M+ downloads ChatGPT shipped Intelligent UI and showed everyone what it looks like Today we’re releasing OpenUI 1.0 bringing it to every other agent

Security will become a larger and larger function in software companies. Security is verification engineering (eg: “my code is probably memory-safe”), as well as capital allocation (“what surface should I throw most tokens at?”) For startups, it’s a challenge and opportunity. As the world’s paranoia grows given ever-more-sophisticated AI adversaries, how can you trust a 2-person-and-a-dog company? But conversely, given the dire state of global cybersecurity and increasing reliance on centralization, as always, there’re vast areas that small teams can now disrupt that I’m excited to invest in.

I have some really fun news. I’m delighted to announce that @sunilpotti is joining @Cisco and will lead our Security, Observability and Data Platform teams, bringing our Security and Splunk businesses together under one leader. Sunil will join my leadership team and report directly to me. He has spent years building and scaling some of the most important security platforms in the industry, most recently leading Google Cloud Security. There are very few people who combine deep technical instincts, product leadership and the ability to operate at enormous scale the way Sunil does. I could not be more excited to have him here, and I think it says something about the opportunity in front of Cisco that exceptional builders like Sunil want to come help us create what is next. The timing could not be better. We are squarely entering the agentic era, where AI agents will increasingly act autonomously across applications, infrastructure and data. This creates an entirely new set of problems. When something goes wrong, was it a breach, an infrastructure issue, a software failure, or did a perfectly legitimate agent simply exercise spectacularly bad judgment? Those distinctions are going to become much harder to make. Security tells us whether something might be malicious. Observability tells us what actually happened. Data gives us the context to understand why. I believe these three areas are going to become increasingly inseparable, which is a big reason why bringing these teams together now makes so much sense. This is also where I think Cisco has a very unique opportunity. In this new world, we have to operate with the assumption that the adversary may already be inside the environment, and increasingly that adversary could itself be an agent. The job is no longer just keeping threats out. It is detecting them, understanding what they are doing and preventing lateral movement once they are inside. And where does lateral movement happen? On the network! Few companies in the world have the depth of network telemetry and context that Cisco has. When we combine that telemetry with security, observability and data, and co-design it with the rest of our stack across silicon, networking and compute, we can build something fundamentally different. That is the vertically integrated platform we are building for the AI era. There is a tremendous amount of innovation already in the pipeline, and I think we are only beginning to scratch the surface of what is possible. I am super stoked to work with Sunil and the entire team to go build it. Welcome to Cisco, Sunil. Let’s make the world safe, secure, observable and open!