The Lightspin acquisition signals Cisco’s continued investment in cloud security. Upon closing the acquisition, the Lightspin team will join Cisco’s Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ET&I) business, advancing new and emerging technologies, Pandey noted. “Cisco and Lightspin are aligned with a common goal to help customers modernize their cloud environments with end-to-end security and observability from build to runtime.” “Lightspin takes a unique approach to contextualized cloud-security coverage, using graph-based technology to deliver key context, prioritization, and remediation recommendations,” Cisco SVP Vijoy Pandey wrote in a blog post.

In the CSPM space, Lightspin competes with companies like Lacework, Orca Security, and Wiz, while many larger security firms like Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro, and Check Point also offer this service. Its clients include Inspectiv, Imperva, Panoply, and ZoomInfo. Lightspin was founded by experienced cloud penetration testers and aims to empower organizations to see their cloud environment from an attacker’s perspective, according to the startup. Although Cisco didn’t disclose the financial terms of the acquisition, it is reportedly estimated to be worth between $200 and $250 million. Cisco today announced its intent to acquire Israel-based cloud security posture management (CSPM) startup Lightspin, marking its second cloud security deal within two months following the Valtix acquisition.įounded in 2020, Lightspin has raised $20 million in funding to date, including a $16 million Series A round led by Dell Technologies Capital.

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