Cisco has acquired the California-based privately held Virtuata and that will help the networking giant to provide enhanced security for virtual machines. As reported on their official blog, Hilton Romanski, Vice President and Head of Corporate Business Development at Cisco said that the networking infrastructure giant will leverage the Virtuata’s innovative capabilities to enable consistent and enhanced security for virtual machines allowing customers to accelerate the deployment of multi-tenant, multi-hypervisor cloud infrastructures.

“Cloud and virtualization are significant disrupters in the market. When customers move to these environments, security concerns arise where infrastructure is shared across multiple applications, business units or even organizations. As more and more business applications move to virtualized platforms, security and isolation become necessary conditions at the virtual machine level. This acquisition is highly complementary to Cisco’s vision of a unified data center that securely connects people and businesses with applications and data through virtual and cloud environments,” said Romanski.

The Virtuata team will join Cisco’s Data Center Group led by David Yen, senior vice president, Data Center Group. This acquisition actually revolves around the security issues surrounding virtualization, which Cisco has been working on for some time.

Cisco is proceeding with security and network approach, especially in regard with the “virtualization security”. The networking company has been taking ample security measures, right from pushing security intelligence across all products to modifying security structure. At RSA Security conference in San Francisco, Cisco introduced plans for deploying new security technologies across all networks, including mobile. The company also announced TrustSec 2.1 with new security features, new security group access technology features in its ISE platform to define and assign policies, and unveiled a new line of ASA CX firewall appliances with customized security features, which lets administrators set security controls over user devices for more than 1,000 network security applications.

In the same conference, Cisco announced a new highly distributed security architecture that manages security factors such as firewalls, web proxies and intrusion-prevention sensors with a higher-level policy language which are context-aware to accommodate business needs. This security measure will run be implemented across Cisco’s entire security portfolio.