GEC NEWS WIREAruba has revealed continued innovation at the network edge. The introduction of new security solutions, ecosystem partnerships, and wired infrastructure products is designed to accelerate the move to the digital workspace, while addressing the security concerns associated with the adoption of IoT initiatives.
The new Aruba ClearPass Universal Profiler and Aruba ClearPass Exchange partnerships, along with the 2540 Switch Series, are key components of HPE’s broader IoT strategy that was unveiled at the HPE Discover Conference.
Aruba has developed a strategy to meet enterprise requirements for identifying, connecting, and protecting all mobile and IoT devices at the edge. With new software and hardware solutions, as well as new ecosystem partners, Aruba can now accelerate an organization’s move to IoT adoption in smart buildings across verticals.
The new Aruba ClearPass Universal Profiler automatically discovers and fingerprints all IP-enabled managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices on multi-vendor wired and wireless networks. This gives IT organizations the ability to see clearly how many devices in total and per category are connected at any one time. For organizations that then require policy management, there’s a simple migration path to the Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager, to enable automatic authentication and policy enforcement after devices are identified and fingerprinted. Devices that are exhibiting unwanted behavior can then be automatically remediated using data from Aruba’s partners to minimize the risk to networks.
The Aruba ClearPass Exchange partner ecosystem continues to grow, with new additions, Attivo Networks and Niara, both of which allow IT to identify IoT devices that demonstrate unwanted or suspicious behavior. “By integrating the Attivo Networks Threat Matrix Platform with the Aruba ClearPass solution, customers can in real-time detect the lateral movement of threats within their networks, receive high fidelity alerts, and seamlessly isolate infected systems from the network,” said, Marc Feghali, vice president and co-founder of Attivo Networks.
“By integrating Niara’s analytics capabilities for detecting threats inside their environment with Aruba’s ClearPass NAC and policy enforcement functionality, organizations can realize instantaneous and automated quarantine of any connected device, IoT or otherwise, exhibiting attack behavior,” said Sriram Ramachandran, CEO and co-founder of Niara.”
