Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the expansion of its AI-powered, security-centric networking portfolio with the introduction of network detection and response (NDR) capabilities based on behavioural analytics. These capabilities will be delivered through HPE Aruba Networking Central.
The company is also enhancing its Cloud-based universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) approach by extending its reach to campus-based local area networks. This new local Edge capability applies the same access control policies defined for the cloud directly to campuses and data centres, ensuring a superior user experience and consistent enforcement regardless of a user’s location or connection method.
The new NDR solution utilises telemetry from HPE Aruba Networking Central’s data lake to train and deploy AI models that monitor and detect unusual activity in vulnerable IoT devices, which are increasingly crucial in supporting mission-critical business processes. As IoT devices provide organisations with data to train and activate Generative AI models, the need to detect changes in network traffic patterns, connection status, or dynamic device attributes that indicate a successful compromise becomes critical.
“Enterprises are increasingly realising that unsecured IoT devices in the network present an observability blind spot in their security solutions. Those devices can be exploited for initiating larger network attacks, and thus are also one of the largest contributors to a growing attack surface,” said Jon Green, Chief Technology and Security Officer, HPE Aruba Networking. “In addition, as security teams increasingly rely on the network to deliver zero trust security solutions, HPE Aruba Networking is providing the ability to leverage a single access control policy for application resources, on-prem or off-prem, that customers can adopt to reduce overlapping and potentially confusing controls.”
To accelerate threat response, HPE Aruba Networking Central combines attack detection with new policy recommendations to intercept potential threats. To ensure these recommendations do not disrupt network operations, teams can preview changes to their security policies before implementation as part of their enforcement and response workflow.
“Companies need AI-powered behavioural network detection and response, universal security policies, and edge-to-cloud enforcement to protect users, devices, and applications at scale – a key consideration as AI assets throughout the enterprise increasingly become attack targets,” said Maribel Lopez, Founder and Industry Analyst at Lopez Research.
These new tools further expand HPE Aruba Networking’s security portfolio, following the solutions unveiled at the RSA Conference in May, which included AI-powered security observability and monitoring capabilities within HPE Aruba Networking Central, and the company’s first SSE firewall-as-a-service. At the conference, HPE Aruba Networking was recognised for one of the “Coolest Cybersecurity Products at RSAC 2024.”
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