Cisco Systems, a global technology leader, is taking a bold step in attacking network security with Hypershield, a security mesh that serves as the foundation for shielding the fast-growing cyber threat landscape. This end-to-end solution crucially uses AI and automation for comprehensive defense which solidifies businesses’ ability to prevent all attacks in a proactive manner.
Cisco, the Silicon Valley-based network-oriented corporation, released Hypershield during its yearly Cisco Live conference on June 12, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This revolutionary cybersecurity offering being developed is a pure software-based solution which secures software, VMs, and containerized conditions aimed at running on Linux. Hypershield works with Cisco’s Security Cloud platform and grants organizations additional options for improvement of their security posture without having to change service processes.
We live in a time when cyber adversaries are highly sophisticated and tend to develop and deploy their strategies and tactics one step ahead. Cisco understood that the modern enterprise security must be able to “see ahead of time” and stop unknown threats as well as stress resistance and reliability of applied solutions, thus allowing enterprises to get confident with digital transformation.
“Cybersecurity is no longer just about defending against known threats; it’s about anticipating and thwarting the unknown,” said Chuck Robbins, Chairman and CEO of Cisco. “Hypershield represents a paradigm shift in how we approach network security, empowering businesses with the ability to stay one step ahead of the adversaries.”
With the machine learning algorithms as the core of Hypershield power, the advanced technology is able to provide the network with real-time monitoring and threat detection services, as well as to identify the abnormalities of the network traffic with Cisco’s rich security database resources provided. This preventative stance contributes immensely in lowering the risk of cyber-attack success and to data breaches and therefore, avoids financial losses.
“To be clear, this isn’t a new take on an old idea, or the ‘next generation’ of anything,” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco Security Business Group, in a blog post. “It’s a holistic system that — finally — brings the security advantages of a hyperscale model to enterprises.”
Hypershield’s splendorous features include a mixed exploit protection module which uses AI in the process of detecting vulnerabilities, prioritizing them and proposing remediation strategies. Furthermore, an independent segmentation module enables the service mesh to segment itself when sporadic application behavior is detected thereby, barring the damage of the network caused by hazardous apps.
Perhaps most notably, Hypershield boasts a dual data plane that acts as a digital twin of the network, allowing IT and security teams to safely test software or policy changes before implementing them in the production environment.
“Historically, Cisco has difficulty getting out of their traditional network security hardware buying center,” said Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald. “This is a piece of software, no doubt about it, and it takes Cisco into new buying centers and use cases. Cisco is not always good at that [entering new tech arenas].”
With the digital realm being as complex as it is, Hypershield turns to be a game-changer by emerging as a security solution that is both comprehensive and adaptable, enabling organizations to be confidently able to embrace digital transformation regardless of safety concerns.