AgenciesBENGALURU: Network equipment maker Cisco Systems will continue looking for acquisitions as it pushes towards working real time on cyber security intelligence data, according to a top company executive.
Vishak Raman, Cisco’s director of security business for India and the SAARC region, told ET that along with its acquisition strategy, the company will also focus on integrating technology platforms from previously acquired companies.
"So much work has been done in integrating every security solution into most of our networking products. We are looking at companies as products which can solve security issues at every layer of the IT infrastructure," Raman said. Raman, who has helmed Cisco security for about nine months now, said this is just the beginning for Cisco as a huge number of network security problems are out there to be solved.
"As a technology leader, we also incubate security startups. We are not here for a quick valuation. There is a method to madness. We look at network behaviour issues, DDoS attacks and mass data issues. We have understood customer anomalies," he said.
The US-headquartered IT and networking behemoth has a 5,000-strong workforce for security issues, of which a fifth are from India who are working on threat intelligence data. Since 2014, Cisco has made 31 acquisitions.
Of these, eight are in the field of security and include Observable Networks (2017), which provides cloud forensics, CloudLock (2016) for cloud security and analytics, and OpenDNS (2015) for device threat protection, among others.
Some of their earlier acquisitions include Cognitive Security (2013) for network security, Virtuata (2012) for data centre security, and Iron-Port Systems (2007) for messaging security appliances.
Vishak Raman, Cisco’s director of security business for India and the SAARC region, told ET that along with its acquisition strategy, the company will also focus on integrating technology platforms from previously acquired companies.
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"As a technology leader, we also incubate security startups. We are not here for a quick valuation. There is a method to madness. We look at network behaviour issues, DDoS attacks and mass data issues. We have understood customer anomalies," he said.
The US-headquartered IT and networking behemoth has a 5,000-strong workforce for security issues, of which a fifth are from India who are working on threat intelligence data. Since 2014, Cisco has made 31 acquisitions.
Of these, eight are in the field of security and include Observable Networks (2017), which provides cloud forensics, CloudLock (2016) for cloud security and analytics, and OpenDNS (2015) for device threat protection, among others.
Some of their earlier acquisitions include Cognitive Security (2013) for network security, Virtuata (2012) for data centre security, and Iron-Port Systems (2007) for messaging security appliances.
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