I’ve always felt that speed really matters in business. Setting the right tempo for execution is a huge contributor to success for any company. When people ask me to describe my job, I’ve always felt like it is 3 distinct things.
1. Build a team of hungry, competent, curious people.
2. Help define a clear strategy that inspires the market.
3. And keep reminding everyone over and over and over again that we’re running out of time.
Well, let me tell you, on my first full week on the new job as CPO, my team didn’t need any reminding that speed matters. They were already off to the races.
Today, I’m delighted to announce a significant addition to the Unified Cisco AI Assistant based on the unique skills based framework that we recently announced.
Allow me to share with you what this means. With the skills framework, each product within Cisco can easily plug-in to the AI Assistant experience without having to redo common reusable parts such as the UX, conversational history and so on.
This is not just important for our teams so that we can innovate faster, but it’s also hugely important to our customers to simplify how they experience Cisco products, and more importantly how each product enhances the other to deliver a true platform advantage.
Today, I am excited to announce our new skills from our Networking team that cuts across security and networking products.
Let me take you through an example to illustrate the true power of something like this. Say a security analyst is using Cisco XDR and detects a ransomware exfiltrating data from an employee’s laptop. They can now use a new networking skill from Meraki to identify the access point that the laptop is connected to, and seamlessly isolate that device from the network, all using natural language.
This is a game changer! Bringing unmatched visibility across the network and security, the Cisco AI Assistant can fundamentally change how IT and security teams deliver digital resilience for their organizations. So proud of the teams for leaning in and driving a platform advantage with all the rich telemetry that Cisco has to create a compounding effect with every product enriching the other.
I look forward to seeing Cisco become the world’s largest startup.