Powering and protecting the AI revolution

To thrive in the new digital era, organizations need to connect the people, places, apps, data, and devices that power their businesses... AND they must protect their entire digital footprint from cybersecurity threats, downtime, and other business risks.

Cisco—supercharged by Splunk—will bring the full power of network data together with market-leading security and observability solutions.

This transformative combination will provide unparalleled visibility and insights across an organization's entire digital footprint, enhancing our customers' ability to protect their organizations, deliver improved business performance, and accelerate innovation velocity.

Learn more about the future with Cisco + Splunk

Source: Cisco 2023 AI Readiness Index

We are thrilled to officially welcome Splunk to Cisco. As one of the world’s largest software companies, we will revolutionize the way our customers leverage data to connect and protect every aspect of their organization as we help power and protect the AI revolution.

Chuck Robbins
Chair and CEO, Cisco

Build upon existing platform capabilities, further enabling operations teams to focus on what matters most: minimizing tool sprawl, improving overall performance, and delivering highly secure digital experiences.
Help customers unlock new use cases, drive efficiency, and realize the full human potential of their teams.

In order to be a great security company, we have to be a great AI company. You cannot be a great AI company if you're not a great data company. Splunk will allow us to scale that to a very different level.

Jeetu Patel
EVP and General Manager, Security and Collaboration, Cisco

Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of security analytics with greater visibility of endpoint and network traffic, improving analysts' ability to detect and remediate issues before they have material impact.
Give customers access to a highly comprehensive intelligence by incorporating Talos threat intelligence into Splunk.
Integrate threat detection, investigation, and response to power the SOC of the Future, combining Splunk Enterprise Security, SOAR, and Attack Analyzer with Cisco telemetry and threat intelligence.

With digital experience increasingly considered a key performance indicator at the boardroom level, the ability to unify and secure those experiences at-scale is now at the heart of all business interactions, making applications the lifeblood of the business and full-stack observability an indispensable element in any digital-first business landscape.

Liz Centoni
EVP and Chief Customer
Experience Officer, Cisco

Correlate telemetry data—used both to protect applications and their underlying infrastructure from security threats and to ensure their performance—with business context to help detect and stop issues wherever they occur before they can impact our customers' businesses.
Deploy AI-powered full stack observability capabilities that support trustworthy, performant, and reliable deployment of generative AI LLMs, AI APIs, and AI-powered applications.

The ability to connect, secure, and assure the delivery of digital experiences, no matter the underlying infrastructure, is critically important to mitigate any disruption to business operations.

Jonathan Davidson
EVP and General Manager, Cisco Networking

Effective use of the right data at massive scale will be a critical currency to enabling AI success and helping organizations drive outcomes never before possible. Addressing this need, Cisco's native telemetry along with Splunk's federated data management capabilities will become a leading dataset for applying AI to security, observability, and network operations. That's why we're committed to:

Bring data for security, IT, and engineering teams together on a unified platform to enable greater effectiveness and efficiency, while enabling tool consolidation.
Provide access and analytics across a massive breadth of data in varied domains—such as security, networking, applications, users, identities—at massive scale, enabling customers to harness the power of AI.

What People Are Saying

Accenture congratulates Cisco on the acquisition of Splunk. We have enjoyed long term partnerships with both companies and look forward to the opportunities this collaboration presents to our clients in the future.

Julie Sweet
Chair and CEO, Accenture

We hope that Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk can help us reduce cost, time and effort while improving visibility and insights.

At Banner Health, we rely on Cisco for our network and Splunk to keep it healthy. The integration should make it easier than ever to put telemetry tooling on our network gear systemwide, so we can feed data into Splunk and take action faster than ever. It's a significant opportunity to consolidate insights and provide a holistic service. We’re excited to see what the acquisition ends up manifesting and creating.

Elevsis Delgadillo
Vice President, IT Infrastructure, Operations and Service Delivery, Banner Health

Cisco and Splunk provide an unmatched combination of networking, security, and full-stack observability that will provide a new level of AI-powered, data-driven insights to help customers achieve almost any business outcome. The close of this deal results in the coming of two best-in-class companies, who together, will create the industry's most advanced AI-driven company with the deepest and broadest set of data.

Zeus Kerravala
Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research

Cisco and Splunk is a transformative combination that will allow customers to do things that weren't possible before. With the close, Cisco has created the most unique set of solutions for networking, security, and operations executives in the market. When you add that to their channel and AI investments, customers should be considering the higher levels of business value that can now be unlocked.

Stephen Elliot
Group Vice President, I&O, Cloud Operations, and DevOps, IDC

The combination of Cisco and Splunk could fundamentally elevate the ability to create security outcomes in a way that surpasses what either organization could do individually. By bringing together leaders in security and analytics, not only will they be able to deliver customers increased visibility and data insights, but also improved efficacy and efficiency that will decrease time to detection in a truly meaningful way.

Frank Dickson
Group Vice President, Security and Trust, IDC

Enterprises are struggling to keep pace with the demands that work from anywhere continues to place on IT infrastructure. Ensuring high network availability, resilience, performance and security are crucial to enable broad digital transformation and deliver optimal business outcomes in campus, branch and remote environments. Full-stack observability is a compelling tool that can aid in all of these endeavors. The combination of Cisco and Splunk is poised to bring a deeper set of capabilities together, spanning networking and security infrastructure, data and network observability, and AI.

Will Townsend
VP and Principal Analyst, Moor Insights and Strategy