04/18/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/18/2024 01:15
Today we introduced the most consequential security product in Cisco's history: Cisco Hypershield. It's a cloud-native, AI-powered approach to highly distributed security for AI-scale data centers that's built into the fabric of the network.
It's the most radically different security innovation I've been a part of in my career. Part of the Cisco Security Cloud, Cisco Hypershield literally turns the network security model upside down, bringing the power of hyperscaler security and connectivity to the enterprise.
AI is ushering in an era of digital abundance. When every person in every job function has AI assistants and organizations are moving at machine scale, our world of 8 billion will feel like we have the capacity of 80 billion.
To accommodate the additional digital capacity required, our public and private data centers are being reimagined. And Cisco is at the heart of how data centers are being reimagined: how they are connected, how they are secured, how they are operated, and how they are scaled.
And data centers are changing in two major ways. Infrastructure is changing: CPUs are being supplemented with GPUs and DPUs that specialize in functions like AI workload processing and I/O operations at throughput levels that modern AI-scale data centers need. And applications are changing: they're being broken into thousands of microservices that run in different containers and clouds - highly distributed, all talking to each other.
In this new world, we need to reimagine security at AI scale. And we need to do it now, because this evolution of data centers and applications isn't waiting for us.
Billions spent on cyber security, and we are still falling behind in many ways.
The fact is, securing everything is hard. And the unprecedented scale of modern applications, AI workloads, and devices just makes everything harder. For instance, I was recently in India and the country is rolling out 250 million smart power meters, each of which has the potential to be exploited. This is just one example of scale that creates tactical challenges for securing everything. Consider the challenges:
Now, imagine you had a solution that could understand everything your applications are doing. Then you could have AI define granular segmentation rules for you and keep them updated as things evolve.
Imagine you had a way to find vulnerabilities and automatically shield them from being exploited. You'd be protected even before you get the chance to patch.
Imagine your security infrastructure could upgrade itself. You'd save countless hours and eliminate the coordination and downtime of upgrade testing and deployment windows.
We designed Cisco Hypershield to do all this and more. It is built for the age of AI, for the cloud, in software, and with a distributed architecture that means you can put security wherever you need to….in the cloud, in the data center, on a factory floor, or a hospital imaging room.
Cisco Hypershield is built on modern building blocks like eBPF, hardware acceleration, and AI.
What the Cisco Hypershield architecture delivers is a coordinated fabric of thousands of distributed security enforcement points throughout your entire environment, across both public and private clouds. It brings security to the workloads, not the other way around.
And this architecture allows us to do some truly incredible use cases that weren't possible until now, such as:
I'm incredibly excited about the launch of Cisco Hypershield. I'm so proud of our team for delivering this incredible innovation that will help make the world a safer place.
To learn more about it, please read Tom Gillis' blog about the technology and the key customer use cases we're solving for. And keep your feedback coming!