Jeetendra Patel CSCO

President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco

AI and Identity Security | Jeetu Patel | Cisco Live EMEA 2024 — Full Keynote

📅 Sep 17, 2026 Jeetu Patel — Full Keynotes 30 MIN 20 VIEWS 11 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS

Jeetu Patel’s complete security address from the Cisco Live EMEA 2024 opening keynote in Amsterdam. He discusses Cisco Security Cloud, identity intelligence, secure access and AI-assisted cybersecurity. Event: Cisco Live EMEA 2024 — Opening Keynote: Let’s GO Recorded: February 6, 2024 Speaker: Jeetu Patel This recording preserves his complete security address, including its introduction, embedded demonstrations and closing handoff. It is one of two separate Jeetu addresses within the larger opening keynote event. This historical recording reflects the ideas, products and announcements prese...

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Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, outlined a major shift in the company's security strategy from point solutions to an integrated, AI-powered platform called Cisco Security Cloud. He described the platform's three core areas: user protection with a 'zero trust, zero friction' approach via secure access integrated with ThousandEyes; cloud protection with a translation layer for zero trust between cloud applications and private data centers; and breach protection, where he noted that 80% of breaches start from email and introduced XDR plus recovery, partnered with Cohesity. Patel announced the Cisco AI Assistant for Security, a single assistant across the security portfolio, and showcased natural language firewall management. He highlighted identity as a major attack vector, noting that 74% of attacks involve a human element, and launched Cisco Identity Intelligence, an open platform providing an identity graph over existing identity providers. He emphasized the platform's inclusion across all suites and a free identity security assessment.

Key takeaways

Cisco launched Cisco Identity Intelligence, an open agent spanning any identity provider, covering human, machine, and service identities, with identity graph capabilities.
Patel claimed 95% of cloud applications need access to on-premises resources, pushing for a zero-trust translation layer.
The Cisco AI Assistant for Security is a single assistant embedded across all Cisco security portfolio products.
Patel announced XDR plus recovery with partners like Cohesity, achieving a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero.
Cisco Security Cloud integrates Identity Intelligence across all user and breach protection suites without requiring product replacement.

Numbers and commitments

Figure	What it refers to	Type	At
3,500	Number of security vendors in the market	metric	0:38
50 to 70	Average number of cybersecurity products in an organization's stack	metric	0:38
95%	Share of cloud applications requiring access to on-premises resources	metric	5:46
80%	Share of breaches and attacks starting from email	metric	8:33
74%	Share of attacks involving a human element or social engineering	metric	20:10
12,034	Number of firewall rules with 353 duplicates in a demo	metric	15:41
2023	Year with more innovation than the prior 10 years combined	metric	29:05
2024	Year expected to see an order of magnitude more innovation than 2023	timeline	29:05

Chapters

0:00Evolution of security industry
3:02User protection with zero trust
5:46Cloud protection and zero trust
8:33Breach protection and XDR
14:08AI assistant for security
20:10Identity as attack vector
23:21Identity Intelligence launch
29:05Innovation velocity and closing

Host 0:00 ↗

I'd like to invite my friend G2 Patel, EVP and GM of security and collaboration, up on the stage. G2.

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Patel, J. (2026, September 17). AI and Identity Security | Jeetu Patel | Cisco Live EMEA 2024 — Full Keynote [Interview transcript]. Jeetu Patel — Full Keynotes. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2999240/

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Jeetendra Patel. "AI and Identity Security | Jeetu Patel | Cisco Live EMEA 2024 — Full Keynote." Jeetu Patel — Full Keynotes, 17 Sep. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2999240/.

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Key Quotes (2)

“The security industry over the past 30 years has largely evolved with innovation through patchwork. Every single time there's a new threat that emerged, there was a new vendor that created a product to go out and address that new threat. And consequently, what you've had is about 3,500 or so vendors in the market. Each one of those vendors has a different kind of set of policy engines. On average,”

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“The question that we've all been asking as we've gone through this entire past three decades with identity is can someone log into this application? Let's go verify that typically at the point of time of authentication. Once you authenticate, you're in, you're free to do whatever you want. And I think it's the wrong question to be asking. The question should be: should that person have access, and”

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Mentioned in this interview

ThousandEyes: Integrated completely with Cisco Secure Access for user protection.

AWS: Example of a cloud provider where applications run and need to connect to on-premises resources.

GCP: Example of a cloud provider in the multicloud context for policy persistence.

Azure: Example of a cloud provider for moving applications and persisting policy.

Cohesity None-Cohesity: Partner for XDR plus recovery to achieve RPO of zero.

Splunk SPLK: Pull log data, SOAR data, and user behavior analytics into a single platform; regulatory process ongoing.

Okta OKTA: Example of an identity provider that Identity Intelligence works with.

CrowdStrike CRWD: Example of an identity provider that Identity Intelligence works with.

Earlier, on the same topics

“We've gone to a lot of customers at this point, and we've shown them the first set of capabilities and the second one, which is the management part of it and also the debugging and troubleshooting. And customers have been super impressed by this. They love the fact that we're leveraging agentic ops ”

Jul 21, 2026 at 15:55 →

“The last 75 days have changed so much and the whole security market and the problem set is getting redefined around Mythos and agentic security. Mythos really announced to the world that the frontier models are now good enough to do the things we've been afraid they were going to do for a long time,”

zero trust · Jul 29, 2026 at 0:45 →

“One of the big reasons that at least I've seen customers wanting to do a great deal work with us is we are one of the only vertically integrated platforms that is a co-designed full stack. And what I mean by that is silicon and optics are the foundation. Systems hardware, systems software, platforms”

Jul 21, 2026 at 10:46 →

“I think the way to think about it is, you know, we are the critical infrastructure company for the AI era. ... I always tell people think about Cisco as the picks and shovels company for the gold rush. ... we provide high performance low latency energy efficient networking switching that actually co”

Mar 18, 2026 at 51:44 →

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About Jeetendra Patel

Jeetendra Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, has been active in public discussions about AI and its enterprise implications. He has stated that AI agents surpassed humans in token consumption in February 2026, with agent consumption growing 14x by August and now reaching five times that of humans. Patel has expressed a view that under 2% of people currently use agents as power users, projecting this will rise to 30-40% within 15 months. He has described the current period as moving from AI adoption to AI delegation, where work is increasingly handed to autonomous agents. Patel has also spoken about the security challenges posed by AI, comparing agents to teenagers that are "supremely intelligent" but exercise poor judgment. He has argued that AI poses a material security risk to the market and has called for speeding up innovation around safety and security to match the pace of AI development. Speaking about Cisco's business, Patel has said the company is building the "critical infrastructure for the AI era" and has described the recent period as one of significant innovation, including new silicon for networking, reimagined security for agentic AI, and the Cisco Data Fabric powered by Splunk. He has also said he expects the company to need more engineers, not fewer, and has argued that the industry is not overbuilding data centers because infrastructure is being consumed as quickly as it is built.

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