Cisco launched Cisco Hypershield, an AI-powered solution that claims to protect applications, devices, and data across public and private data centers, clouds, and physical locations.
“Cisco Hypershield is one of the most significant security innovations in our history. With our data advantage and strength in security, infrastructure, and observability platforms, Cisco is uniquely positioned to help our customers harness the power of AI,” said Chuck Robbins, Cisco chair and CEO.
Revolutionary security architecture
Hypershield claims to be a revolutionary new security architecture built on three pillars of AI-nativity so it can be autonomous and predictive; cloud-nativity, built on open source eBPF, to connect and protect cloud-native workloads in the hyperscale cloud; and hyper distribution, that spans all clouds and leverages Data Processing Units (DPU) for threat analysis and response.
“The power of Cisco Hypershield is that it can put security anywhere you need it – in software, in a server, or the future even in a network switch. When you have a distributed system that could include hundreds of thousands of enforcement points, simplified management is mission-critical. And we need to be orders-of-magnitude more autonomous, at an orders-of-magnitude lower cost,” explained Jeetu Patel, executive vice president and general manager for Security and Collaboration at Cisco.