Shield helps government and critical infrastructure organizations block malicious network traffic at scale. The Global Threat Engine has been refining threat intelligence since 2001 with 8.5 billion IP and DNS combinations.
| What it does | Blocks malicious network traffic in government and critical infrastructure environments. |
|---|---|
| Who it's for | Federal, SLED, and critical infrastructure security teams. |
| How it deploys | Five Shield products with deployment patterns suited to government environments. |
| What you get | Network-layer prevention with evidence appropriate to government reporting requirements. |
Shield supports the network monitoring, access control, and audit logging requirements across the major frameworks public sector and regulated buyers operate under. The crosswalk below is what you can show your auditor, your procurement team, and your insurance carrier.
We frame this carefully because procurement and audit teams ask precise questions and we give them precise answers.
Shield blocks known-bad traffic at the network edge and produces event logs of every blocked connection. Those logs evidence the network monitoring and boundary protection controls that most frameworks require. Shield is a control. It supports compliance with frameworks. It is not a compliance certification itself.
Shield does not process, store, or transmit protected health information or cardholder data, so the data-handling provisions of HIPAA and PCI-DSS do not apply to Shield. That is our stance, and it is intentional: the data Shield uses is network telemetry and reputation lookups, not regulated personal data. Shield supports the technical controls HIPAA and PCI-DSS require of the systems that do handle that data.
INTRUSION as a company complies with GDPR for the business contact information processed through its websites and marketing operations. Shield itself does not process regulated personal data, so the data-handling provisions of GDPR do not apply directly to the product. The technical controls Shield provides support the network-layer obligations GDPR places on data controllers and processors. Records of processing, data minimization practices, and data subject rights handling are documented at the company level and described in the INTRUSION Privacy Policy.
For each framework below, we identify the specific controls or sections Shield supports. Your auditor or compliance lead can use this as a starting point for the formal crosswalk.
Audit conversations go faster when the evidence is already in a format the auditor expects. Shield produces these artifacts natively, no manual report generation required.
Every blocked connection is logged with timestamp, source, destination, protocol, and reason for the block. Exportable to CSV and Excel from Shield Command Hub. The auditor sees what was blocked and when.
Shield OnPremise produces a Syslog feed your SIEM can ingest. Your existing audit workflows continue to operate against your SIEM. Shield events become part of your unified audit record.
Deployment topology, blocking policy, and operational mode are documented during deployment. The documentation is what your auditor and procurement team can attach to the formal control evidence.
Note on retention: Shield maintains 72 hours of full evidence retention for blocked events at the platform level. For longer retention, customers forward Syslog from Shield OnPremise to the customer's SIEM or log management system.
We name these explicitly because procurement teams sometimes assume capabilities that Shield does not have, and we would rather be clear up front.
Shield is a security control, not a federal accreditation or compliance certification. Do not assume Shield is FedRAMP authorized, on a GSA Schedule, SOC 2 audited, or ISO 27001 certified. Those are separate processes that may or may not apply depending on deployment.
Shield does not process, store, or transmit regulated personal data, protected health information, or cardholder data. Because of the data Shield uses, the data-handling provisions of GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS do not apply directly to Shield itself. Shield supports the technical controls those regulations require of the systems that do handle the data. Separately, INTRUSION as a company processes business contact information submitted through its websites and marketing forms; that processing is governed by the INTRUSION Privacy Policy.
Shield is a network enforcement platform. It produces an event log and a Syslog feed. It does not aggregate logs from other tools, run a case management workflow, or orchestrate response across other security tools. Shield feeds into those tools, it does not replace them.
Shield protects at the network. Shield Endpoint provides reputation-based filtering on Windows and Android, with ZTNA on Android, but it is not an EDR product. Shield is complementary to an EDR, not a replacement for it.
We can produce a formal crosswalk document mapped to the specific framework version your auditor uses, with the relevant Shield event log fields and Syslog format documented. Ask during your POV scoping conversation.
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