By Nicole Willing
Publication Date: 2026-01-05 17:12:00
Cisco is reportedly in negotiations to acquire US-based cyber asset management specialist Axonius for $2BN, the latest deal indicating how deeply enterprise security is becoming intertwined with customer experience strategy.
The potential deal, reported by Calcalist, would strengthen Cisco’s expanding enterprise security portfolio, and comes during a period of increased M&A activity, including ServiceNow’s recent acquisition of Armis.
Like Armis, Axonius was founded by former IDF intelligence veterans. Its platform creates a centralized inventory of all the devices, applications, cloud assets and user accounts that connect to an enterprise’s network and correlates data from existing security and IT tools so that they can have a “single source of truth” to manage network access.
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