Cisco has announced Hypershield, an AI-based capability of the company’s Security Cloud platform for hyperscalers. Hypershield is designed to defend cloud, data center, and distributed edge appliances from rapid vulnerability exploitation, according to Cisco.
Patching today’s sprawling applications has become a task beyond the capabilities of any security team and manual processes. This covers a range of problems: patching cycles cannot keep up, patch testing is complex and therefore takes too long, and legacy technology is unlikely to be patched at all. This model of centralized vulnerability management left defenders at a huge disadvantage and was no longer sustainable. Hypershield is expected to address these issues in three ways:
