When Solarwinds’ CTO Krishna Sai thinks about cybersecurity he thinks – perhaps obviously – about the company’s software supply chain, but also about AI: not just about how the company uses it, but how and where it builds its own AI features.
SolarWinds – which provides IT monitoring and support, network and systems management tools – like every software firm has started to ship “agentic” capabilities that aim to automate away some of the painful grunt-work its customers need to do.
The company, for example, rolled out its first “SolarWinds AI Agent” in October 2025, promising the ability to “summarise outages, gather diagnostics, identify probable root causes, and suggest remediation steps” and added additional AI services in 2026.
To Krishna – who joined SolarWinds in June 2021, when the white-hot pain of a major supply chain attack was still fresh at the company – building secure AI capabilities is a full stack consideration: “Folks are so focused on the coding aspects of AI, [they] forget that you need good infrastructure that supports healthy AI software factories.”