Cisco announced its intent to acquire WideField Security, a company focused on security technology for the agentic AI era.
WideField’s technology will be integrated into Splunk to enhance Agentic SOC capabilities. Cisco said the technology will help normalize and correlate identity, session, and activity telemetry from multiple sources.
The acquisition is designed to help Splunk assemble context across human, non-human, and AI-agent activity, including signals from Cisco Identity Intelligence.
Cisco said the rapid deployment of AI agents, autonomous workloads, and non-human identities has introduced a new class of security risk. These systems can operate at machine speed, creating challenges not only around unauthorized access but also around approved users or agents taking unsafe actions in the wrong context.
WideField’s technology is expected to support AI-driven security workflows and reasoning at scale. By using identity telemetry and intelligence from a wide range of sources, Splunk’s Agentic SOC will be able to assemble session-level signals for deeper analysis by security analysts.
Cisco said this context can help determine whether an action belongs to a legitimate active session or a potentially malicious one.
The technology is also expected to strengthen Cisco Data Fabric by incorporating deeper identity and session intelligence, giving customers more context to operate AI safely and at scale beyond security operations.
Cisco said the planned acquisition continues its investment in enterprise-grade agent and agentic security solutions. The company said WideField builds on its recent additions of Astrix Security and Galileo.
WideField also reinforces Cisco’s broader goal of delivering an integrated trust layer for the agentic AI era, spanning identity, runtime behavior, visibility, and enforcement.
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“We are excited to announce our intent to acquire WideField Security Inc. WideField’s technology will be integrated into Splunk to boost the Agentic SOC capabilities by helping normalize and correlate identity, session, and activity telemetry from a variety of sources. This will enable Splunk to assemble context across human, non-human, and AI-agent activity, including signals from Cisco Identity Intelligence.”
Kamal Hathi, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Splunk, a Cisco company
