Cisco: The Time is Now – Redefining Security in the Age of AI

Speaking at the RSA Conference Cisco’s Tom Gillis, SVP Security and Jeetu Patel, EVP Security and Collaboration, described how attacks are moving laterally across the network, and their velocity and sophistication are on the rise.

AI is unlocking security capabilities that were not possible two years ago. Protecting the edge is no longer enough.

It’s time to leverage AI for more than just hype and rethink cybersecurity altogether – where visibility and enforcement are woven into the fabric of the cloud.

Cisco Hypershield: Reimagining Security at AI-scale

Given the challenges of today’s threat landscape, nothing less than a radical rethinking of security will do. Cisco Hypershield is it.

In this video Jeetu introduces what he calls one of the most exciting Cisco security products ever. Designed to meet the security demands of AI-scale clouds and data centers, Hypershield protects the most highly distributed environments and simplifies the most complex challenges.

In short, it brings hyperscaler-grade security to the enterprise.

Patel, who is Cisco’s EVP and general manager of security and collaboration, explains how Hypershield can easily solve critical problems that security teams have wrestled with for decades.

Among its solutions, Hypershield can:

• Vastly simplify infrastructure updates with automated self-upgrades.
• Instantly shield assets before a new patch can be implemented.
• Dynamically drive segmentation to protect and isolate threatened applications, even in the most hyper-distributed environments.

Patel calls AI “one of the largest platform shifts being experienced by humanity,” and it’s capacity for good is vast. But protecting the AI revolution means solving the complex new security problems. Hypershield delivers it.

“How to remagine security in this hyper-distributed world with AI-level scale is something we’ve thought long and hard about,” Patel concluded. “And that’s why we are delivering it to the market.”