Cisco completed its previously-announced acquisition of Isovalent, a leader in open source cloud native networking and security. Financial terms were not disclosed.
- eBPF, which stands for extended Berkeley Packet Filter,” provides a lightweight, efficient, and secure framework for running bytecode in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading kernel modules. Originally designed for network packet filtering, eBPF has evolved to offer more generalized functionality, including:
- Network Functionality: eBPF is widely used for networking tasks, such as filtering, monitoring, and routing of network packets.
- Observability: It allows for detailed monitoring and tracing of system and application behaviors. eBPF can be used to trace kernel and user-space functions, making it a powerful tool for performance analysis and debugging.
The Isovalent team joins the Cisco Security Business Group.
