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Splunk Made Machine Data Searchable. Cisco Paid $28 Billion for What Comes Next.
The software started as a Google-like search box for baffling server logs. Two decades, 20,000 customers and one enormous acquisition later, Splunk is trying to make security and operations teams faster without making every byte take the expensive route through its index.
WideField Watched What Happened After Login - Then Cisco Bought the View
Most security tools check the badge at the door. WideField followed the badge through every room - a post-login bet that carried the three-year-old startup into Cisco and Splunk.
Cisco
The company that quietly wired the internet is now betting its next chapter on securing and connecting the machines that run artificial intelligence.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is an American multinational technology company and the world's largest maker of networking hardware. Founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists, it builds the routers, switches, silicon, security, and software that route much of the world's internet traffic. Today Cisco is repositioning around AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and observability - anchored by its 2024 acquisition of Splunk - while remaining the default backbone for enterprise, service-provider, and government networks.
Hitachi Cyber
Hitachi Cyber is the global cybersecurity and performance analytics arm of the Hitachi Group, operating under Hitachi Systems Trusted Cyber Management Inc. With roots going back to 1999, it delivers 24/7 managed security services, threat intelligence, governance-risk-compliance advisory, and performance analytics to more than 350 private and government organizations across 50-plus countries. A network of Security Operations Centers spanning Canada, Switzerland, Japan, India and Poland - integrated with Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk - anchors its detection and response work across IT, OT and AI environments.
Auguria, Inc.
Auguria is a cybersecurity AI company that builds the Security Knowledge Layer (SKL), a vector-based platform that ingests the flood of logs, events, and telemetry that security teams collect, then denoises, classifies, and prioritizes it - filtering out roughly 99% of the noise so analysts can focus on the ~1% of events that actually matter. Founded in 2022 by Keith Palumbo and Chris Coulter and emerged from stealth in March 2024 with $6.5M in seed funding from SYN Ventures and SentinelOne's S Ventures, Auguria plugs into existing SIEM and data-lake infrastructure to cut security data costs and surface threats others miss.
BlueVoyant
BlueVoyant is a New York-based cyber defense company that combines a cloud-native technology platform with a 24x7 global security operations team to protect organizations from threats inside and outside their network. Its full-spectrum platform spans managed detection and response (MDR/MXDR), digital risk protection, and supply chain (third-party) cyber risk defense, drawing on global telemetry, dark web intelligence, and a deep partnership with Microsoft and Splunk. Founded in 2017 by James Rosenthal and Thomas Glocer, the company serves enterprises and governments worldwide and has raised roughly $695M to date.