Cisco Systems—Cisco maintained platinum-level leadership in CNCF and OpenSSF open source foundations
Cisco is a Platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and a Platinum sponsor of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The company is a top contributor to OpenTelemetry and the Kubernetes ecosystem, and launched Foundation AI, an open-source AI initiative for cybersecurity. Cisco's engineers serve in leadership roles across open source governance including as maintainers of key supply chain security projects.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Security | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.429 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.57)
Evidence (1 signal)
Cisco CNCF leader urged corporate open source contributions and led supply chain security projects
Cisco maintains Platinum membership in CNCF and OpenSSF, with engineers serving as maintainers of critical projects like Scorecard and Allstar for software supply chain security. Cisco is a top contributor to OpenTelemetry and the Kubernetes ecosystem.