Cisco has announced its plans to acquire Isovalent, a networking and security startup based in Silicon Valley. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Isovalent, which raised $70 million in venture capital funding, is known for its expertise in the open-source technology eBPF and its cloud-native solution for networking and security called Cilium.
Cilium offers visibility into the inner workings of the operating system, making it an ideal interface for building security systems that can protect workloads while in operation. The product provides networking capabilities and visibility into the behavior and communication of cloud-native applications, enabling IT and platform engineering teams to define software-defined networks’ policies.
With this acquisition, Cisco also gains Cilium Mesh, which allows the connection of Kubernetes clusters with existing infrastructure across hybrid clouds, as well as Tetragon, an eBPF-based security tool that provides visibility and enforcement of runtime behavior within applications and networks.
This acquisition is part of Cisco’s ongoing shopping spree, which includes the recent acquisitions of Oort, Armorblox, Lightspin, and Valtix, further enhancing its cloud security product portfolio.
