Technology conglomerate Cisco is making a play in the cloud application security market, announcing plans to acquire cybersecurity startup Portshift. (Cisco)

Technology conglomerate Cisco is making a play in the cloud application security market, announcing plans to acquire cybersecurity startup Portshift. 

The purchase gives Cisco a foothold into cloud-native application security – a market that analysts expect to nearly double from $34 billion to $68 billion by 2025 – by way of a Kubernetes-native security platform. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Portshift brands itself as a fast, easy way to build effective security into the cloud application development process.  

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