Cisco to Acquire WideField Security for Splunk’s Agentic SOC
Summary
Cisco announced an agreement to acquire identity security company WideField Security, whose tools discover identities, assess exposure and authentication hygiene, monitor sessions, and provide behavioral analytics. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Key points
- Cisco announced an agreement to acquire WideField Security; financial terms were not disclosed.
- WideField’s technology discovers human and non-human identities and maps exposures across accounts and roles.
- Its platform can identify authentication-policy misconfigurations and weak authentication paths, monitor live sessions, and provide AI-powered behavioral analytics.
- Cisco plans to integrate the technology into Splunk’s Agentic SOC and its broader data fabric to add identity and session context to threat investigations.
- The article describes this as Cisco’s third cybersecurity-related acquisition deal of 2026.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Cisco announced an agreement to acquire WideField Security.
- Impact
- The acquisition is intended to add identity and session intelligence to Splunk’s Agentic SOC and Cisco’s broader data fabric. WideField’s technology supports discovery of human and non-human identities, exposure mapping, authentication-policy and weak-authentication-path detection, live session monitoring, and behavioral analytics. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Vendors
CiscoCisco on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire identity lifecycle security company WideField Security to strengthen the capabilities of Splunk’s Agentic SOC.WideField SecurityCisco on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire identity lifecycle security company WideField Security to strengthen the capabilities of Splunk’s Agentic SOC.