Cisco deployed Cisco Hypershield, an AI-native security architecture that became generally available in August 2024, which autonomously analyzes network behavior, prioritizes threats, applies compensating controls to block newly discovered vulnerabilities within minutes, and continuously updates its own security policies without requiring manual patching.

Hypershield is built on open-source eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology and is deployed as software embedded in virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, servers, and network switches. It takes as input live network traffic telemetry and behavioral data from across an organization's environment, including threat intelligence from Cisco Talos, and produces outputs including prioritized threat scores, autonomous network segmentation policies, compensating controls to block exploits, and self-qualified software updates. Cisco describes this as 'AI-native' from the ground up, designed so the AI 'analyzes all potential threats across your environment and prioritizes them.' The system allows administrators to configure the level of autonomy they are comfortable with.