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Executive Brief

Not long ago, enterprise security teams could identify the perimeter they were protecting and work with IT operations to gain full control of the resources their employees could access and use,
from networks to systems to applications to data. Today, there’s no shortage of technology disruptions – mobile, BYOD, virtualization, cloud, big data, and IoT have now taken hold of the enterprise and rendered a perimeter-based security approach insufficient.  The problem is compounded by an era of IT disaggregation and highly organized and targeted attacks. Ensuring the security of the organization is not only mission-critical, it’s now become exponentially more difficult. Clearly a modern approach is required to deal with today’s fast-changing threat landscape.

According to Gartner, User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) is an innovative category of security technology for identifying and mitigating advanced threats. “For at least the past two years,
Gartner has witnessed many new vendors with advanced analytics appear in several security market segments. One area that has spurred a lot of innovation is UEBA, which enables broad-scope
security analytics, much like security information and event management (SIEM) enables broad scope security monitoring.  UEBA provides analytics around user behavior, but also around
other entities such as endpoints, networks and applications.  The correlation of the analyses across various entities makes the analytics’ results more accurate and threat detection more effective,
just as it does with SIEM.

 

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Network security designed specifically for mobility

The Aruba Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF) provides context-based controls to enforce application-layer security and prioritization.

With PEF, IT can enforce network access policies that specify who may access the network, with which mobile devices and which areas of the network they may access.

AppRF is a PEF feature that is designed to give network administrators insight into the applications that are running on their network, and who is using them. WebCC is an optional PEF subscription feature that includes URL filtering, IP reputation, and geolocation filtering.

 

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Open Third Party Integration for Endpoint controls, Policy and Threat Prevention

While billions of Wi-Fi enabled smartphones and tablets connect to enterprise networks, it’s a major challenge to ensure security while also delivering an exceptional user experience without creating a provisioning nightmare.

That challenge is complicated by the fact that IT still relies on multiple, disparate systems like network access control (NAC), enterprise mobility management (EMM), policy management, firewalls, guest management, single sign-on solutions, helpdesk and trouble-ticketing systems.

IT needs a better way to secure the mobile enterprise.  More importantly, the security products and management systems that have been deployed must be able to exchange contextual data and work together to provide increased visibility from top to bottom.

Aruba ClearPass Exchange supports a wide range of third-party IT systems, giving you the benefit of a coordinated defense where all components operate as one fully-integrated system.

 

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Today’s Prerequisite for Enhanced Security and Compliance

To help identify connecting endpoints, legacy practices often meant deploying comprehensive endpoint management solutions, agents, and manually updating multiple endpoint databases. None of these delivered the desired results because IT was overwhelmed by BYOD, guest access deployments, and rogue wired and wireless endpoints; many of which come and go with users.

With the billions of IoT devices expected to connect to networks in the next three years, and the well-publicized security breaches of late, there is a warranted demand among IT professionals for real-time visibility and reporting.  They need a solution that offers continuous monitoring and profiling rather than periodic updates, regardless of location, time-of-day, or endpoint type.

 

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Device Visibility, Control and Attack Response for the Enterprise

Gartner is forecasting 50 billion connected devices by 2020.  Laptops, smartphones, tablets and Internet of Things (IoT)  devices are pouring into the workplace. With every employee  now utilizing an average of three devices, the addition of IoT increases the vulnerabilities inside the business – adding to the operational burden.

Identifying what is on the network is the first step to securing your data. Control through automated policy enforcement ensures that only authorized and authenticated users and devices are allowed to connect to your network, while, at the same time, real-time attack response and threat protection is required to secure and meet the internal and external audit and compliance requirements.

The use of IoT devices on wired and wireless networks is shifting IT’s focus. Many organizations secure their wireless networks and devices, but may have neglected the wired ports in conference rooms, behind IP phones and in printer areas. Wired devices – like sensors, security cameras and medical devices force IT to think about securing the millions of wired ports that could be wide open to security threats.  Because these devices may lack security attributes and require access from external administrative resources, apps or service providers, wired access now poses as the new risk.

 

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