Generative AI and evolving threats require security teams to rely on a new tool for zero-trust security: the network.
RSA Conference 2024At HPE Aruba Networking, we introduced new AI-powered network security controls that empower security teams to protect valuable AI assets from edge to cloud.
As enterprises' AI assets become increasingly targeted for attacks, HPE Aruba Networking demonstrates how it can help secure critically important AI data, models, and applications at scale by combining AI-driven identity intelligence and analytics, security policies, and edge-to-cloud policy enforcement.
We also showcased the benefits of our Unified SASE solution through the acquisition of Axis Security.
The combination of Axis Security and HPE Aruba Networking portfolios creates the industry's most comprehensive edge portfolio.
we are ConnectivityWith ZTNA, CASB and SWG Firewall functionWe're adding a consistent security framework with our SASE solutions. Axis Security offers all of this, along with the firewall capabilities of HPE-Aruba Networking, and (via the acquisition of Athonet) offers the most comprehensive connectivity layer with Private 5G and Wi-Fi 7.
Antonio Neri, HPE CEO
Building security into network infrastructure is deeply rooted in Axis's roots, and HPE Aruba Networking has aggressively doubled down on edge-to-cloud security since its acquisition of Axis. AI-driven networking, with security as its top priority, is a core value at Axis, and we are committed to further integrating our security and networking teams.
Add comprehensive AI-based security visibility and behavioral analytics capabilities.
Much AI training data comes from unmanaged IoT devices.
IoT devices generate web traffic when communicating with cloud services for updates, telemetry, or other purposes, making them vulnerable to web-based threats. Furthermore, BYOD and business devices often appear on the network outside of IT department control and can be compromised without warning or notice. Compromised or manipulated data can create entry points for attacks and AI poisoning.
HPE Aruba Networking Central new AI-based IoT search and classification capabilitiesIt helps address IoT security risks by providing enhanced visibility and identification of network-connected devices and continuously monitoring for abnormal or malicious behavior.
Next-generation HPE Aruba Networking Central Client Insight The service uses machine learning models to accurately classify and identify IoT and legacy devices by analyzing multiple device attributes, including traffic patterns, connection status, and behavioral characteristics such as network presence.
HPE Aruba Networking Central AIOps has a long history of establishing baselines for automated network activity for troubleshooting and resolution, and now extends these capabilities to individual devices using AI. This not only supports zero-trust security through more precise, automated fingerprinting, but also uses behavioral baselines to identify anomalies that could indicate compromises and attacks.
AI-based profiling is combined with other AI-based features to improve security.
For example, HPE Aruba Networking uses AIOps and machine learning models to intelligently hibernate APs during periods of low activity, eliminating potential entry points for malicious activity and reducing attack surface exposure.
HPE Aruba Networking SSEExpand your firewall control area
As AI resources and applications become increasingly distributed across geographies and cloud environments, security teams need flexibility in how and where they implement and enforce access controls, and in how they segment traffic.
The newly introduced Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) feature of HPE Aruba Networking SSE extends protection to data and devices wherever they reside, without the cost or complexity of appliances. FWaaS combines the on-premises security controls provided by firewalls embedded in HPE Aruba Networking switches, wireless access points, gateways, and WAN appliances with cloud-based policy enforcement, enhancing flexibility, scalability, and performance to complete edge-to-cloud firewall protection.
Additionally, FWaaS capabilities integrate with ZTNA, CASB, SWG, and DEM of HPE Aruba Networking SSE services, enabling security teams to easily manage all SSE services using a single UI and global policies.
A new dashboard for HPE Aruba Networking SSE improves visibility into your organization's security posture.
The dashboard includes views of applications in use, user activity, security events, and ZTNA adoption.
Security officers can use this information to identify Shadow IT applications and reduce the risks associated with unauthorized access.
Accelerate SASE adoption by integrating SD-WAN and SWG.
Two common challenges that IT and security teams face when adopting a single-vendor SASE solution to protect dispersed users, endpoints, data, and applications are: ① Ensuring IoT Securityand ② Finding out where to start and how to implement it easilyno see.
The newly integrated Secure Web Gateway (SWG) capability with the HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect portfolio provides a turnkey solution that comprehensively protects all types of users and devices, including unmanaged and IoT devices, from web-based threats, enabling teams to address both challenges.
Traffic from unmanaged endpoints and IoT devices passes through the EdgeConnect gateway to HPE Aruba Networking SSE using a dedicated tunnel, eliminating the need to install and manage separate software agents.
SD-WAN, enhanced with SWG, provides organizations with enhanced protection through seamless, automated, high-performance connectivity as they implement security controls at the on-premises edge and extend to the cloud-based security service edge.
Here, you can easily extend your security services to a full SASE solution, including ZTNA and CASB.
HPE Aruba Networking at RSA Conference 2024
As more and more organizations build, train, and deploy AI models, security concerns surrounding data and access persist.
At this year's RSA Conference, HPE Aruba Networking demonstrated how a security-first, AI-driven networking approach can protect valuable AI assets and deliver differentiated experiences.
For a more vivid story from the field, see CTO of HPE Aruba Networking Jaye Tillson and John Spiegel Check out the posts.
– Notes from the field: RSA Conference 2024, a look back
