Cisco Intends to Acquire Threat Detection and Defense Company SnapAttack, Driving Further Splunk Innovation to Power the SOC of the Future

January 31, 2025, Update: We have completed the acquisition of SnapAttack. Welcome to Cisco!

The threat landscape is constantly evolving and expanding, making it more difficult than ever for organizations to keep up and defend against the latest threats. Today’s SecOps teams need cutting-edge security tools and threat intelligence-driven detection content to proactively defend against the latest tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that organizations face today.

Effectively deploying and enabling threat detection is a critical capability of security operation centers (SOC) and key to keeping businesses protected. Splunk’s threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) solution is anchored by its market-leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), which includes Enterprise Security Content Updates (ESCU) that provide customers pre-packaged, regularly updated detection content.

SnapAttack provides a solution that supports the complete detection content lifecycle, starting with curated detection content discovery that is prioritized by current threat activity, potential impact and other factors, all the way through to the continuous validation, testing and assessment of deployed content. Today, SnapAttack is used by some of the world’s largest organizations in industries with the most stringent cybersecurity regulations.

With Cisco’s acquisition of SnapAttack, security teams using Splunk security products will see even more innovation with accelerated delivery of capabilities that offer even more control, visibility and advanced management of all their security content, including the content they develop themselves.

Using a unique, threat intelligence-driven approach, SnapAttack monitors changes in the threat landscape and helps organizations understand if their current detection content protects them against the latest threats. If not, it recommends detection content that’s readily deployable for security teams to apply.

Accelerating the SOC of the Future with SnapAttack

By bringing the new capabilities provided by SnapAttack together with Splunk’s existing security products, customers will benefit from an enhanced TDIR platform that enables them to quickly adapt to changes in the threat landscape.

Key acceleration areas and benefits include:

• Enhanced detection engineering: Defenders will have the upper hand with leading capabilities such as detection content discovery, detection authoring and lifecycle management, continuous detection validation, detection content prioritization and detection coverage mapping - powered by proprietary AI and machine learning (ML) techniques.
• Enhanced insights: The insights gained from using SnapAttack’s solution provide a complete picture of current threat coverage, identifies detection gaps and helps prioritize those gaps, which then feed into threat detection engineering teams trying to refine and improve defensive strategies over time.
• SIEM modernization: Using SnapAttack’s detection translation technology, organizations can seamlessly migrate to Splunk ES to modernize their SIEM. This includes autonomous migration capabilities that translate, validate, deploy and test existing SIEM content within Splunk ES. This will significantly reduce effort and lower transition costs while delivering enhanced security outcomes.

As we continue to innovate and deliver solutions that support today’s new era of SIEM, we look forward to completing the acquisition and welcoming SnapAttack to Cisco and the Splunk team!