Cylance

CEO: Stuart McClure

Founded: 2012

Headquarters: Irvine, Calif.

One of the fastest-growing private cybersecurity companies, Cylance would highly compliment Cisco Tetration – the company's breakthrough analytics data center solution, according to Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research.

"Their [artificial intelligence] driven security, all software, compliments Tetration and Cisco's overall security strategy," said Kerravala. "Tetration makes a ton of data in the data center, and you could easily see how Cylance could leverage that data and how Cisco could leverage Cylance machine learning algorithms to create a one-plus-one equals three."

Cisco's latest acquisition, MindMeld, revolved around AI targeting the unified communications and collaboration space.