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Cisco Hypershield
Bringing the power of hyperscaler technology to the enterprise, Cisco Hypershield is a groundbreaking security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers.
Legacy security architectures were not designed for AI-scale data centers. Cisco Hypershield embeds enforcement everywhere — in virtual machines, switches, and compute nodes — so protection travels with your workloads rather than waiting at a perimeter that no longer exists.
Hypershield reimagines what enterprise security can accomplish by distributing AI-powered enforcement across every workload, port, and enforcement point in your infrastructure.
In minutes versus months, the AI-native rule engine prioritizes vulnerabilities and deploys surgical compensating controls. Controls are tested against live production traffic and placed at optimal points in your infrastructure.
An extended network that segments itself, continuously adapting to current realities. Informed by process behaviors, file changes, and learned policy preferences, Hypershield places macro-guardrails that tighten progressively down to a regex filter.
Validate upgrades and policy changes against live production traffic using an innovative dual data plane approach. Changes only promote when validation passes — delivering zero-downtime deployments without manual testing cycles.
Hypershield is built on foundational principles that differentiate it from legacy firewalls and endpoint tools.
Designed with AI from the ground up — to deliver high efficacy, faster response, and continuous protection with a system that earns your trust for the right level of autonomy and control.
Innovative end-to-end security — from the network to the workloads. Unified management provides intelligent, optimal placement for policy across a full spectrum of previously inaccessible enforcement points.
Architected to seamlessly incorporate new enforcement points into the fabric without the need to overhaul policy. As you add workloads, Hypershield scales with your infrastructure automatically.
Hybrid Mesh Firewall
Cisco Hypershield is a core component of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall architecture — a highly distributed security fabric optimized for zero-trust segmentation and application protection in data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.
Smart Switch Innovation
The Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches are a new family of service-accelerated data center switches with embedded security powered by Hypershield. Security enforcement is now built directly into the switching fabric — eliminating hairpinning and enabling line-rate inspection without dedicated appliances.
Security and network leaders on why Cisco Hypershield represents a new era for enterprise security.
“A new era of distributed, AI-native security”
“Reimagining security” — addressing the vision to combat unknown vulnerabilities through Hypershield’s unique architecture that can help detect and respond to unknown vulnerabilities.
Network and security leaders from Goldman Sachs and The Ohio State University Medical Center discuss how Cisco Hypershield addresses AI-scale attacks, automated updates, and the need for distributed enforcement.
Our Cisco-certified team can help you evaluate Hypershield for your data center and hybrid cloud environment. Get expert guidance on architecture design, licensing, and integration with your existing Cisco security portfolio.