The name
Someone once sold an operating system inside a cube. Ours is much smaller. We wanted to call it CubeOS, but so had everyone else, so El Cubo it is. The snow-capped peak in the logo is for the mountains that inspired its foundations.
The belief
The firewalls that guard most of the world were assembled over twenty years: a filtering product, a VPN product, an inspection product, a management product, each with its own code, its own team and its own release train, held together behind one logo. Every decision crosses a dozen boundaries before it reaches a device, and the intelligence, when it comes, is bolted on at the end.
We started from the other side. One operating system on the box. One binary that routes, filters, inspects, scans and updates. The decision is made where the packet is, by models that live there too. Fewer moving parts means features in days, updates that cost one reboot, and a system small enough to run on anything.
Speed is the feature. Everything else follows from having fewer moving parts.
The team
El Cubo is designed and built by a small team of systems and security engineers who had spent years inside the legacy way of doing things and decided to stop. We ship fast, we test on laptops rather than racks, and we write error messages for people.