Applying a Zero Trust and SASE Approach,
Enterprises Accelerate WAN and Security Transformation, Advance
Cloud and IoT Adoption and Fast-track Digital Transformation
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced an expansive set of cross-portfolio edge-to-cloud
security integrations for Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform). The
new advancements include the integration of the ClearPass Policy
Manager secure network access control platform with the Aruba
EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, formerly Silver Peak, the
integration of Aruba Threat Defense with the EdgeConnect platform,
and the expansion of the Aruba ESP multivendor security partner
ecosystem, providing enterprise customers with the freedom to
deploy best-of-breed, cloud-delivered secure access service edge
(SASE) security components of their choice. Today’s Aruba ESP
advancements will enable enterprises to fast-track their digital
transformation journey from edge-to-cloud.
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A view of the Aruba Central Security
dashboard, which now collects threat feeds from Aruba EdgeConnect.
The heart of Aruba ESP, Aruba Central is a single pane of glass
console for managing cross-domain events to enable a unified
infrastructure. (Graphic: Business Wire)
As organizations contend with challenges resulting from the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a new “work from anywhere” normal,
the adoption of cloud-hosted services will continue to accelerate.
This shift is intensifying the urgency to transform conventional
data center and MPLS-centric and VPN-based networks to a
cloud-native SASE architecture that features more dynamic
provisioning of secure network services while protecting data from
end-to-end.
In parallel, digital transformation is causing a significant
increase of IoT devices connecting to the network, presenting new
challenges that are not addressed with cloud-delivered security
alone. Since IoT devices are agentless, IT departments cannot
install security clients or redirect device traffic to cloud
security services; therefore, Zero Trust security must be applied
at the WAN edge.
To realize the full potential of the cloud and digital
transformation, organizations require a new WAN edge that combines
on premises and cloud-delivered security, delivering on the promise
of SASE to protect users connecting to SaaS and public cloud
platforms, and to safeguard IoT devices that require Zero Trust
identity-based security. Through the new Aruba ESP integrations
being announced today, enterprise customers now have the ability to
apply granular-level, identity-based security policy from
edge-to-cloud to safely connect and protect both users and
devices.
A recent report from communications research firm 650 Group
highlights the growing emphasis on SASE while explaining the need
for enterprises to re-examine their security approach in light of
the current technology evolution. Chris DePuy, founding technology
analyst at 650 Group states, “As enterprises shift toward Zero
Trust and SASE architectures, they are increasingly evaluating and
deploying multi-vendor cloud-delivered security services, and it’s
not necessary for all the SASE components to come from a single
vendor. Aruba’s approach strikes a balance between delivering
on-premises security functionality at the WAN edge and providing
customers with the freedom of choice to integrate leading
cloud-delivered security services from partners like Zscaler,
Netskope, and Check Point. This multi-vendor partnering strategy
provides enterprises with the flexibility to continue working with
existing vendors or shift toward ‘best-of-breed’ systems.”
ClearPass Policy Manager Integration with Aruba
EdgeConnect
The integration of ClearPass Policy Manager with the Aruba
EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform augments application intelligence
by adding identity knowledge of users, IoT devices, roles, and
security posture to form the basis of a SASE WAN edge. Combining
role and security posture intelligence with advanced dynamic
segmentation capabilities eliminates the complexity associated with
implementing hundreds of VLANs for each class of user and device,
dramatically simplifying network administration and management.
Integrating ClearPass Policy Manager with EdgeConnect provides a
consistent and automated definition of roles that can be enforced
network-wide from the user’s device, through the LAN, and across
the WAN.
Aruba Threat Defense Integration with Aruba
EdgeConnect
The integration of Aruba Threat Defense with the Aruba
EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform extends advanced intrusion
detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) capabilities to EdgeConnect
physical and virtual appliances. This allows the EdgeConnect
platform to leverage the Aruba threat infrastructure, sharing
critical threat information between Aruba Central and EdgeConnect
to deliver full visibility across the network. These advanced
unified threat management (UTM) capabilities enable enterprises to
deliver east-west lateral security as well as secure local internet
breakout from branch locations and can be deployed centrally on
premises or in the cloud. By leveraging a common threat
infrastructure and threat feeds across Aruba ESP, network and
security managers can centrally apply and enforce threat management
policies enterprise-wide.
Freedom of Choice through a Multivendor Partner
Ecosystem
As enterprises shift toward a Zero Trust and SASE architecture,
they are increasingly evaluating and deploying multivendor
cloud-delivered security services. A new Ponemon Institute security
best practices survey affirms this, revealing that over 70 percent
of respondents would opt for a best-of-breed, cloud-delivered
security solution over an all-in-one approach,1 in order to
architect a comprehensive Zero Trust and SASE infrastructure.
With a new Service Orchestration provisioning workflow, the
Aruba Orchestrator management console, formerly Silver Peak Unity
Orchestrator, now includes pre-configured default information
regarding the cloud security partner’s proximity-based cloud
security services. Network administrators can quickly and easily
associate Aruba branch locations with the partner’s points of
presence (POPs) and cloud-data centers. Leading security vendors
such as Check Point, Forcepoint, McAfee, Netskope, Palo Alto
Networks, Symantec and Zscaler are currently a part of Aruba’s
extensive technology alliance partner ecosystem.
“The integration of ClearPass Policy Manager and Aruba Threat
Defense with the EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform allows us to
deliver a consistent identity-based policy framework across the
Aruba secure edge portfolio,” said David Hughes, founder of Silver
Peak and senior vice president of the WAN business at Aruba, a
Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “This powerful combination will
enable customers to move at their own pace, from legacy data
center-centric network architectures, with perimeter-based
security, to a cloud-centric WAN with security based on the
principles of Zero Trust and SASE. Enterprise customers can deploy
our on-premises EdgeConnect WAN edge platform to enforce policy
from the edge, and easily integrate with leading cloud-delivered
security services from the vendor of their choice, all centrally
controlled within Aruba Orchestrator.”
Comprehensive Secure WAN Edge Portfolio Spans Hybrid Work
Locations
The Aruba ESP platform offers customers the industry’s most
comprehensive portfolio of secure wired, wireless and WAN edge
solutions that enable customers to adapt to today’s new normal and
tomorrow’s unknowns. The WAN Edge portfolio includes:
- Virtual Intranet Access Client (VIA) – maximum mobility for
work-from-anywhere users whether connecting to private or public
networks
- Remote Access Points (RAPs) – minimal footprint for mobile,
remote and temporary workspaces, delivering secure connectivity to
the corporate enterprise network
- SD-Branch – maximum integration and simple unified management
across WLAN, LAN and SD-WAN with Zero Trust security
- EdgeConnect – optimal QoE (Quality of Experience) from
edge-to-cloud with an advanced SD-WAN edge platform and unified
SASE components
For more details on these new integrations and what they mean
for enterprises, tune into Atmosphere ’21 – Journey to the Edge,
April 13-14. Register here to attend.
Additional resources:
- Blog: Ponemon Survey Highlights Security Best Practices for
Implementing a Zero Trust or SASE Architecture
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global
leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions
that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive
powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform)
and as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to
helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial
requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker
environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide
area networking (WAN).
To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com. For
real-time news updates, follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and
for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba
products, visit the Airheads Community at
community.arubanetworks.com.
1 Ponemon Institute, The State of SD-WAN, SASE and Zero Trust
Security Architectures, April 2021
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Jennifer Miu Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company +1
650-236-9532 jennifer.miu@hpe.com
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707-529-4507 kathleen.keith@hpe.com
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