Cisco’s HyperShield is designed to address challenges in infrastructure upgrades, patching vulnerabilities, and segmentation in distributed environments.
1. HyperShield aims to eliminate the need for manual upgrades by being self-upgrading.
2. Patching is hard and often takes 20-40 days from vulnerability announcement to patch application. Exploits can occur within 2-5 days, creating a dangerous window of vulnerability.
Cisco HyperShield will provide an instant shield or compensating control until the patch is applied.
3. Segmentation is challenging in hyper-distributed environments, especially with microservices.
Cisco HyperShield has solved the problem of dynamically segmenting applications in such environments.
