Insiders confirm that Cisco acquired Rohati for cloud security
Our colleague Ellen Messmer has heard some scuttlebutt concerning Cisco acquiring Rohati Systems. She notes that, while neither Cisco nor Rohati have officially commented on such a deal, a high-level insider has confirmed that it has happened (and that the employees are actually over at Cisco now.)
The acquisition of start-up Rohati Systems would make sense. Rohati was started by former Cisco engineers in 2008 to introduce an access-control device that’s an alternative to the traditional firewall.
(See Cisco Defectors for a rundown of what other former Cisco employees are up to these days).
Rohati’s Transaction Networking System helps establish entitlements by controlling through its Layer 7 access method who has what access to data on a per-transaction basis using context-specific attributes. Rohati has also been working on a version of its technology for use in cloud-based environments.
As we know, Cisco spent 2009 slowly building an image of itself as a cloud security vendor, referring to cloud security as a “nightmare” and then introducing enhancements to WebEx and the ASR line to tackle the issue. So from this perspective, Cisco’s interest in Rohati also makes sense.
Rohati is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. and its president, CEO and co-founder is Prashant Gandhi. He is reportedly planning on staying on with Cisco.
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