What is Cisco Hypershield?
Cisco Hypershield is a security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers, used to automate security policy lifecycle and security infrastructure upgrades. It is a network security solution that can write its own rules, test its own rules, deploy its own rules, and lifecyclemanage its own rules, as well as upgrades. However, Hypershield also lets customers determine the level of autonomy they are comfortable with — using test, record, and report capabilities to earn trust.
Presented as more of a fabric than a fence, the solution allows security enforcement to be placed everywhere it needs to be. The user can embed security in VMs or Kubernetes clusters in public clouds. In the private cloud, security can be inserted in VMs. Hypershield’s architecture allows it to support various types of enforcement points. For instance, in the future, Cisco Hypershield will be deployable to high-performance servers DPUs and hardware accelerators running on networking devices such as switches, providing security beyond the data center to IoT/OT environments.
Hypershield is a composable, subscription-based solution that sits on top of existing hardware. Modules built on top of the solution’s core capabilities deliver specific security use cases — including segmentation and protecting against vulnerability exploits.
Hypershield provides deep visibility and enforcement actions at the workload level with its Tesseract Security Agent, built on top of Isovalent’s (now part of Cisco) Tetragon and eBPF. eBPF provides a safe way to extend kernel capabilities without modifying the kernel itself or risking system stability. This allows Hypershield to gain deep visibility into workload behavior and implement fine-grained security controls while ensuring applications continue to run as Hypershield recommends, tests and deploys policy updates.
Presented as more of a fabric than a fence, the solution allows security enforcement to be placed everywhere it needs to be. The user can embed security in VMs or Kubernetes clusters in public clouds. In the private cloud, security can be inserted in VMs. Hypershield’s architecture allows it to support various types of enforcement points. For instance, in the future, Cisco Hypershield will be deployable to high-performance servers DPUs and hardware accelerators running on networking devices such as switches, providing security beyond the data center to IoT/OT environments.
Hypershield is a composable, subscription-based solution that sits on top of existing hardware. Modules built on top of the solution’s core capabilities deliver specific security use cases — including segmentation and protecting against vulnerability exploits.
Hypershield provides deep visibility and enforcement actions at the workload level with its Tesseract Security Agent, built on top of Isovalent’s (now part of Cisco) Tetragon and eBPF. eBPF provides a safe way to extend kernel capabilities without modifying the kernel itself or risking system stability. This allows Hypershield to gain deep visibility into workload behavior and implement fine-grained security controls while ensuring applications continue to run as Hypershield recommends, tests and deploys policy updates.
Categories & Use Cases
Technical Details
| Mobile Application | No |
|---|
FAQs
What is Cisco Hypershield?
Cisco Hypershield is a security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers, used to automate security policy lifecycle and security infrastructure upgrades.