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    Cisco Is Buying Network Security Vendor Cognitive

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    Jeff Burt
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    January 30, 2013
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      Cisco Systems is buying Cognitive Security, a privately held network security vendor in the Czech Republic and the latest in a continuing string of acquisitions by the giant networking company.

      Cisco executives announced the deal Jan. 29, noting that Cognitive is working on sophisticated technologies designed to address the growing threats to IT infrastructures that are coming in the wake of such trends as cloud and mobile computing.

      Financial terms of the deal were not released.

      Cisco officials will look to integrate their cloud-based global threat intelligence with Cognitive’s real-time behavioral analytics to develop a “common policy engine that controls distributed network enforcement in an intelligent network and mitigates advanced cyber threats,” Hilton Romanski, vice president and head of corporate business development, said in a Jan. 29 post on the Cisco blog.

      Traditional security technologies are not able to keep up with the changing landscape brought on by cloud computing and mobility, Romanski said, noting that threats that are coming onto the scene now are more complex and targeted than what has been seen in the past.

      “Mobility and cloud are drastically changing the IT security landscape, where traditional security approaches aren’t enough to protect customers against an evolving threat landscape,” he wrote. “Cognitive Security’s technology identifies and detects security anomalies, and when coupled with the network for mitigation, allows Cisco to uniquely address our customers’ security requirements.”

      Cognitive leverages artificial intelligence to detect upcoming threats, and its solution uses a variety of software to identify and analyze such threats, according to Cisco.

      According to Romanski, Cisco’s goal is to create a tightly integrated, always-on security environment that businesses can leverage for their cloud and mobile computing needs. Cognitive, which has collaborated with the Czech Technical University in a joint program around network security, will be folded into Cisco’s Security Technology Group, which is overseen by Senior Vice President Chris Young.

      The deal is expected to close in the current fiscal quarter.

      The deal for Cognitive is only the latest is a rapidly growing number of acquisitions of mostly off-shore companies that Cisco is using to build up not only its networking capabilities, but also its offerings in such areas as cloud, virtualization and video.

      Most recently, Cisco on Jan. 23 announced it was spending $475 million to buy Intucell, an Israeli software company focused on mobile networking. Also this month, Cisco took a 1 percent stake in Parallels, which offers virtualization and cloud services whose desktop virtualization solutions enables businesses to run Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems and software on a single machine at the same time.

      The Cognitive and Intucell deals follow a growing list of deals that last year includes everything from video software vendor NDS Group, networking solutions vendor Meraki, Broadhop, which offer policy control and service management technology, and Cloupia for automated management software.

      At the same time that Cisco is rapidly adding to its growing portfolio, the company also continues to shed businesses that no longer fit into its long-range strategy. Most recently, Cisco on Jan. 25 announced it was selling its Linksys home networking business to Belkin, the latest move in its efforts to exit the consumer technology space. Over the past couple of years, Cisco also has shuttered its Flip video camera and Umi home telepresence businesses.

      Jeff Burt
      Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

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