Cisco has announced its intent to acquire identity threat detection and response company Oort. Raj Chopra, senior vice president (SVP) and chief product officer for Cisco Security, made the announcement in a blog post this week.
“With Oort’s API-driven, cloud-native, and agentless platform, they eliminate identity visibility gaps across disparate data sources, show misconfigurations, check for security vulnerabilities, and offer predictive identity analytics to proactively stop attacks. It also cuts down on remediation time by giving enterprises a clear understanding of the blast radius of an identity-related incident,” the post said.
“Leveraging Oort’s identity-centric technology, we will enhance Cisco’s Security Cloud’s user context telemetry and incorporate their capabilities across our portfolio, including our Duo Identity Access Management (IAM) technology and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) portfolios. In addition to strengthening Cisco’s native telemetry, Oort’s integrations with other third-party vendors – including Google, Microsoft, Okta, and Auth0 – supports our commitment to increase interoperability and deliver consistent outcomes regardless of vendor or technology.”
The Oort team will join Cisco’s Security Business Group. Cisco expects to close the acquisition in the first quarter of its FY24, which begins Aug. 1.
