Cybersecurity

In March 2024, Cisco completed its acquisition of Splunk, one of the most widely adopted security analytics and observability platforms in the enterprise. While much of the market initially questioned whether Cisco would try to collapse the two platforms into one, the strategy has become clear: Cisco XDR and Splunk are being positioned as complementary technologies, each bringing critical capabilities to a unified detection and response ecosystem.

Rather than forcing convergence, Cisco is building a connected architecture that lets each platform do what it does best.