Cisco has agreed to acquire identity lifecycle security company Widefield Security, SecurityWeek reported on June 19 local time.

The move is aimed at strengthening Splunk agentic SOC capabilities. The size of the acquisition was not disclosed.

Widefield raised more than $11 million in a Series A round last year.

Widefield provides technology that discovers both human and non-human identities, maps exposure across accounts and roles, and checks for weak points in account and privilege management.

The Widefield platform detects authentication policy errors and weak authentication paths. It also supports real-time session monitoring for real-time threat detection and AI-based behavioral analysis.

According to Cisco, if the technology is integrated into Splunk agentic SOC and Cisco Data Fabric, identity and session intelligence will be added to the threat investigation process, enabling more effective identification of key information such as credentials, active sessions and potential impact scope. Security teams will be able to understand context more clearly for both human and AI activity, and companies will be able to secure the visibility needed to safely operate autonomous AI systems at scale.

The acquisition is Cisco's third cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition this year. Cisco previously acquired Galileo and Astrix Security.