Shield brings prevention-first network security to critical infrastructure environments. Shield blocks malicious traffic at the network layer using the Global Threat Engine and 8.5 billion IP and DNS combinations refined since 2001.
| What it does | Blocks malicious network traffic at the network layer using reputation-based threat intelligence. |
|---|---|
| Who it's for | Security teams needing prevention-first network defense. |
| How it deploys | Shield's five products cover cloud, Shield OnPremise, endpoint, monitoring, and management. |
| What you get | Prevention of known-bad connections with full evidence of what was blocked. |
When the conversation moves from your security team to procurement, finance, and legal, different artifacts are needed. The documents below are the ones we are typically asked to provide. Where listed, these are downloadable. Where not, ask during your POV scoping conversation.
Each one-pager is built for the buyer in that sector. The framing, the compliance mapping, and the proof points are tailored. Use these to brief your CIO, your council, your board, or your procurement team.
For state, local, and education buyers. Threat framing for school districts and county IT, CIS Controls and NIST CSF mapping, and the Shield deployment model.
For plant IT, OT security leads, and industrial network engineers. Operational fit, NIST 800-82 and IEC 62443 mapping, and the observe-only deployment model.
For healthcare IT and compliance leads. HIPAA Security Rule mapping, HITRUST control alignment, and the deployment model for clinical networks.
For cooperative and municipal utility IT and security leads. CISA Shields Up, EPA and CISA Water Sector Cybersecurity guidance, and TSA Pipeline Security Directives alignment.
For city and county IT directors. CIS Controls and state CISO standards mapping, council-friendly framing, and the procurement vehicle landscape.
For government and government-adjacent buyers. Company information, capability summary, NAICS codes, and contact information in the format federal procurement teams expect.
When the technical team gets involved, these are the artifacts they typically request. Most are available during POV scoping rather than as open downloads, because the scoping conversation lets us tailor each artifact to your environment.
Architecture diagram for each Shield platform (Stratus, Shield OnPremise, Endpoint, Shield Sentinel, Shield Command Hub). Deployment topology options. Performance characteristics. Logging and integration model.
Support hours, escalation path, and response targets. Documentation of the deployment engineer relationship. Process for handling change requests, configuration adjustments, and operational questions.
Step-by-step deployment checklist for the platform you have selected, with prerequisites for your team, decisions you will need to make, and the typical sequence and timeline.
Standard POV plan template covering scoping, success criteria, timeline, staffing requirements, and the documented exit decision points. Customized to your environment during the scoping call.
Formal control crosswalk for your specific framework version, with the relevant Shield event log fields, Syslog format, and configuration evidence documented in audit-ready format.
Reference architecture for your specific environment type, with the integration points to your existing SIEM, identity provider (where applicable), and network topology documented.
Procurement, finance, and legal teams ask different questions than the security team. These artifacts answer those questions.
Pricing model for the platform and deployment scope you are evaluating, including the standard support tier, optional services, and the typical multi-year commitment structure.
Master Services Agreement and Service Level Agreement in standard form. Public sector and regulated buyers often need to flow MSA changes through legal review; we plan for that timeline.
Information on the partner network and the cooperative purchasing, state contract, and other procurement vehicles available through partners. We work with the vehicle you already use.
Most artifacts are tailored during POV scoping. Tell us what your procurement team needs and we will produce it in the format your auditor or contract office expects.
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