Bengaluru, NFApost: Aruba became the first SD-WAN vendor to attain ICSA Labs Secure SD-WAN certification. This significant achievement validates the breadth and strength of the Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN solution in providing best-in-class advanced SD-WAN with built-in next generation firewall (NGFW) and advanced security features, providing enterprise organisations with everything they need to connect and protect their WAN network.
ISCA Labs is a world-renowned, respected, and trusted third-party testing organization that provides certifications for many of the world’s top security product developers and service providers.
The new ICSA Secure SD-WAN certification criteria goes beyond other ICSA Labs firewall certifications. It confirms the importance of deploying converged network and security functions when moving to a best-of-breed SASE architecture in order to deliver robust security and to improve the quality of experience for users working from anywhere and on any device.
In a statement, Aruba official made it clear that there is something satisfying about being first to the summit, first to be acknowledged and first to be hired for special assignment.
“We know, it is insufficient to perform a router refresh, firewall upgrade, or bolt-on of new physical firewalls in isolation. Instead, organizations must rethink networking and security together in order to connect and protect users and IoT at the edge and across the WAN to data centers, clouds, and SaaS,” states the company.
This technological development revels the strength of the Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN solution in providing best-in-class advanced SD-WAN with built-in next generation firewall (NGFW) and advanced security features, providing enterprise organizations with everything they need to connect and protect their WAN network.
Commenting on the achievement, Aruba senior director of SD-WAN product and technical marketing Derek Granath said wide-area network and security are becoming inextricably linked.
“Because of this linkage between the two, we wanted to get a certification that would be a well recognized – globally recognized – certification,” said Aruba senior director of SD-WAN product and technical marketing Derek Granath.
It is interesting to find that Aruba has gained substantial market share after it acquired Silver Peak. It facilitates multiple locations over the WAN and provides next-generation firewall, IDS/IPS, and DDoS detection and remediation. Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN solution shines in providing customers everything they require to employ a modern network without compromising on connectivity or security.
EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN enables organizations to implement consistent QoS and security policies on an end-to-end network comprising WLAN, switching, SD-WAN, and remote access, all protected by common Zero Trust and SASE security frameworks, built-in from the start.
An advanced SD-WAN with identity- and role-based traffic segmentation, enforced with a built-in NGFW, along with IDS/IPS, and other security functions ensures that consistent network and security policies are applied from the access edge to the WAN edge to the cloud, enabling organisations to retire on-premises routers and firewalls.
Customers achieve significant OpEx and CapEx savings and improve overall IT efficiency by consolidating branch network and security functions of WAN and WAN optimization, routing and VPN, firewall and network security—all from a single appliance that is centrally managed.
Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN platform powers a secure self-driving wide area network for cloud-first enterprise organizations to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of building a Secure SD-WAN to:
Deliver the highest end user quality of experience
Reduce business risk with consistent network QoS and security policy enforcement
Automate connectivity for users and IoT to multi-cloud and SaaS with always-on security
Eliminate need for dedicated branch firewalls without compromising security or connectivity
Enterprise organizations can be confident in choosing Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN, knowing the solution has been independently validated with security-forward, objective testing, and certification criteria.
With more than 30 years of experience, ICSA Labs sets a high bar as a respected and trusted company providing certification testing of computer and network security products. The new Secure SD-WAN certification is an important validation for enterprise customers as they transform networking and security
