Cisco intends to acquire Isovalenta player in the cloud native networking and open source security sector, to increase cloud security in the public sector.
The acquisition Isovalent will build on the vision of Cisco Security Cloud, an integrated, AI-powered, cloud-delivered security platform for organizations of all shapes and sizes. Cisco Security Cloud enables customers to easily and effectively manage multicloud infrastructure security controls to provide advanced protection against emerging threats across any cloud, application or workload.
Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco
Together with Isovalent, Cisco will leverage the open source power of Cilium to enable unmatched multicloud security and networking to help customers simplify and accelerate their digital transformation journey.
Imagine having applications, virtual machines, containers, cloud resources and security controls with full visibility in today’s distributed environment without hindering network and application performance.
Cloud security
The Isovalent team is a major player in the open source eBPF technology and led the development of the eyelashthe leading cloud native solution for networking and security. eBPF It offers unparalleled visibility into the inner workings of the operating system, with an ideal interface for building security systems that can protect a workload as it runs.
Cilium provides IT teams with powerful networking capabilities and unprecedented visibility into the behavior and communication of cloud-native applications, enabling seamless policy definition for software-defined networks. Additionally, Isovalent recently introduced:
Cilium Mesh: Easily connect Kubernetes clusters with existing infrastructure on hybrid clouds.
Tetragon– An open source security solution based on eBPF that provides runtime visibility and rules within an application and across the network
Isovalent Enterprise: A corporate distribution of Cilium and Tetragon.
Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source at Cisco
Cisco is committed to investing in and contributing to the eBPF and Cilium open source communities. The Isovalent team will join Cisco’s technical leadership to solve complex cloud networking and security challenges. Their insights will accelerate innovation across the enterprise and help further strengthen the Cisco Security Cloud platform.
Isovalent holds leadership positions in Cloud Native Computing Foundation e nella eBPF Foundation, and this acquisition strengthens Cisco’s role in supporting the open source ecosystem. Together, as leaders in networking and security, Cisco and Isovalent will build solutions based on eBPF technology that aim to solve the challenge of protecting workloads, regardless of where they reside.
The Isovalent team will join the Cisco Security Business Group following the closing of the acquisition, expected in the third quarter of fiscal 2024.