Cisco to Acquire WideField Security to Boost Splunk’s Agentic SOC

Cisco announced it will acquire WideField Security, a company that specializes in identity lifecycle security (managing who can access systems and what they can do), to enhance Splunk's Agentic SOC (a security operations center that uses AI agents to automate threat detection). WideField's technology helps organizations discover identities, detect misconfigurations in authentication systems (the process of verifying who someone is), and monitor sessions in real time, which will give security teams better visibility into both human and AI-driven activity when integrated into Cisco's security platform.