Stories
Splunk Targets India's Digital Scale and Data Sovereignty as Key APAC Market
M
Moneycontrol•25-09-2026, 16:52
Splunk Targets India's Digital Scale and Data Sovereignty as Key APAC Market
- •Cisco's Splunk is expanding India operations, viewing it as a key market in Asia-Pacific for cybersecurity, observability, and digital resilience.
- •The $28-billion acquisition by Cisco in March 2024 has enabled Splunk to invest in expanding its sales, pre-sales, and channel teams in India.
- •India's massive digital scale, particularly in telecom and banking, presents a significant opportunity for Splunk's offerings.
- •Splunk's strategy in India is shaped by the country's focus on data sovereignty, supporting on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments.
- •The company is aligning with Cisco's broader strategy, including AI-ready data centers and digital resilience, while addressing cybersecurity challenges posed by AI innovation and shrinking vulnerability exploitation windows.
Key Questions Answered
India's massive digital scale, high volume of users across telecom and banking, and growing demand for cybersecurity, observability, and digital resilience make it a primary market.
Splunk supports on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments while partnering with domestic cloud service providers to help Indian multinationals maintain sovereign deployments domestically.
Project Glasswing showed that the timeframe between a vulnerability being publicly disclosed and exploited has accelerated from months down to hours.
