The Fidelis Halo Microagent is a patented, lightweight (2 MB) component of Fidelis CloudPassage Halo that enables real-time, scalable workload protection without the “security tax” of heavy agents or snapshot-based agentless tools. It offloads storage, memory, and compute scaling to the centralized Halo Cloud framework, helping security and compliance keep pace with fast-changing hybrid and multi-cloud environments without impacting workloads or increasing cloud resource costs. The microagent is inherently secure (no network-accessible interfaces), proxy-aware, command-and-control based with unidirectional communications, and self-monitoring for tampering, while typically persisting through OS patches with minimal updates and enabling easy portability across environments and containers.

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