Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its acquisition of Israel-based cloud security provider Axis Security, a move aimed at expanding its edge-to-cloud security capabilities. HPE’s unified Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) solution will be strengthened by Axis Security’s Security Services Edge (SSE) platform, addressing the growing demand for integrated networking and security solutions delivered as-a-service.
With the increasing number of remote users and the migration of applications to the cloud, Axis Security’s SSE offerings provide access to corporate and public-cloud resources, improving application performance and increasing network security.
The combination of Aruba’s existing Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and network firewall offering with Axis Security’s cloud-based platform would provide a complete edge-to-cloud SASE solution, allowing Zero Trust security controls to be applied to people and devices no matter where they connect, whether on campus, branch, home, or on the road.
Integration with Edge-to-Cloud Security Solutions
“The convergence of Aruba and Axis Security solutions will transform edge-to-cloud connectivity with a comprehensive SASE solution that provides enterprises with the highest levels of security for both IoT devices and all users’ access across geographically distributed locations,” said Phil Mottram, Executive Vice President and General Manager, HPE Aruba Networking. “Today, we also accelerate our vision to help our customers expand their secure connectivity needs with SASE and private 5G solutions, building on our recently announced agreement to acquire private cellular technology provider, Athonet.”
Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Axis Security provides their Atmos platform, which delivers authenticated user access to private applications at the network edge, a secured web gateway to safeguard user access to the Internet, and a cloud access security broker that provides secure in-line access to SaaS apps. It also provides Digital Experience Monitoring to provide insights into user experience.
The integration of Axis Security technology with HPE’s existing Aruba secured networking offerings would help complete the company’s SASE offering, which delivers WAN and cloud security controls directly to the application at the network edge instead of routing data through the data center. This approach provides customers with all of a provider’s networking components as-a-service with one point of control, instead of acquiring, maintaining, and licensing separate components individually.
Furthermore, HPE GreenLake’s edge-to-cloud platform will integrate Axis Security’s cloud-native SSE platform, allowing customers to subscribe to a single monthly subscription without any capital expenditure. Customers can deploy these flexible as-a-service solutions with reduced risk and little upfront investment and scale them according to demand.
The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of the HPE 2023 fiscal year, subject to customary closing conditions. HPE plans to integrate Axis Security’s solutions with its edge-to-cloud security solutions and make them available to customers in the third quarter of the HPE 2023 fiscal year.
