Cisco’s Hypershield “revolutionises security”

Cisco’s Hypershield “revolutionises security” according to the organisation as it revealed its AI-backed security framework. 

The new framework was released in late April and promised to deliver enhanced security mechanisms of data centres and cloud environments. 

Cisco’s Hypershield fresh framework came about as the technology conglomerate said its “rearchitecting” AI protections, underpinned by three pillars – AI and cloud-native and hyper distributed. 

A Cisco spokesperson told Digital Nation the Hypershield “revolutionises security across both on-premises and cloud environments, empowering organisations to protect modern applications more effectively”. 

“This product features a new distributed architecture integrating network and workload enforcement points under a unified management system,” Cisco spokesperson said. 

“With Hypershield, businesses gain robust, scalable protection, seamlessly extending their security perimeter from traditional infrastructures to the cloud.”

The Cisco spokesperson said the capabilities include distributed exploit protection, autonomous segmentation and self-qualifying updates. 

“In the era of AI-scale data centres, managing security surpasses human capacity alone.

"Workloads are commonly distributed across multiple data centres and clouds, leading to fragmented policies that obscure protection coverage and delayed remediation of issues and incidents,” the spokesperson said. 

“At the same time, adversaries are exploiting any weakness ever faster, a trend which will accelerate as AI is more fully adopted. A radically new approach is needed to safeguard modern applications and dynamic compute environments,” the spokesperson added. 

Cisco expects general availability for all customers will be made available this August.