Well, it kinda is. AFAIK, that’s exactly what this was made for, and Intel/McAfee was going to create a DPI device using this tech. That never happened, and now Snort uses/will use hyperscan for its pattern matcher
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As far as I am aware Arbor is also using hyperscan together with DPDK for DPI/DDoS mitigation
There is no "seems" about it. The linked paper mentions DPI over and over.
Correct. There are other uses, but the main users are security companies scanning lots of data for threats.