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. |
State agencies, county IT, school districts, and higher education are the highest-frequency ransomware targets in the country, with the smallest security teams. Shield blocks the command-and-control traffic and inbound recon that ransomware operators rely on, without the SOC analysts you do not have.
SLED organizations carry the same threat load as Fortune 500 enterprises but with a fraction of the budget and almost none of the SOC tooling. Shield was built for that math.
School districts, county systems, and city halls are softer targets than commercial enterprises and they pay. Shield blocks the outbound C2 traffic ransomware needs to receive its encryption key and the inbound recon that maps your network first.
Student laptops, contractor tablets, vendor equipment, smart building controllers. You cannot put an endpoint agent on most of them. Shield works at the network, so coverage does not depend on the device.
When something happens, you have to explain it. Shield gives you a clean event log of what was blocked and why, in CSV or Excel format your auditor or council member can read.
Shield is sized, priced, and operated for IT directors who wear five hats. Reputation-based blocking against 8.5 billion known-bad records means the tool catches what it catches without your team training it.
Shield supports the network monitoring, access control, and audit logging requirements your auditor will ask about. The mapping below is the short version. The full crosswalk lives on the Compliance page.
Shield supports CIS Controls 12 (Network Infrastructure Management) and 13 (Network Monitoring & Defense) by blocking known-bad destinations and logging all blocked events for review.
Shield maps to the Identify, Protect, and Detect functions, particularly PR.AC (Access Control), PR.PT (Protective Technology), and DE.CM (Continuous Monitoring) categories.
Shield event logs, CSV exports, and Shield OnPremise Syslog feeds are designed to satisfy state-level network monitoring requirements across most procurement frameworks.
Most SLED customers see blocked C2 callbacks and recon scans within the first 24 hours of running Shield in observe mode. The traffic was already there. They just could not see it before.
Shield does not need a security analyst to write rules or tune detections. The reputation database does the work. Your team can keep doing what they were doing.
Event logs export to CSV or Excel. Auditors and elected officials can see exactly what was blocked, when, and why. No extra reporting tool required.
A short proof of value gets Shield running in observe-only mode on a slice of your network. We document what we find together. You decide whether to turn on protection.
RECOMMENDED NEXT STEP