By Meir Orbach
Publication Date: 2026-05-04 13:46:00
Cisco announced on Monday the completion of its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Astrix Security. Calcalist has learned that the final purchase price is approximately $400 million.
Astrix’s capabilities will be integrated into Cisco’s broader security platform, including Cisco Identity Intelligence and its Zero Trust applications such as Duo and Secure Access. The integration will enable Cisco to leverage its extensive visibility across networks and infrastructure to understand not only what an agent is, but how it behaves, and to feed that data into event management systems such as Splunk for faster detection and response.
Founded in 2021 by Alon Jackson and Idan Gour, both veterans of Israel’s elite Unit 8200, Astrix has positioned itself around what it describes as a critical blind spot in modern cybersecurity. Its platform is designed to give enterprises visibility into “non-human identities” – software agents, automated processes, and increasingly AI-driven…
