It is Cybersecurity Consciousness Month, and right here’s some thrilling information: Now you’ll be able to ensure that each piece of your digital supply chain is thought safe, all the best way as much as the software program and workloads.
Cybersecurity is all the time top-of-mind for HPE – it’s baked into every thing we do. I’m proud to focus on some latest safety improvements in HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform this month.
In an earlier weblog, I explored HPE GreenLake Lighthouse, our new cloud-native platform that allows you to rapidly and simply configure and optimize a number of cloud providers throughout areas. (See: Get a fluid, seamless, safe cloud expertise – all over the place – with HPE GreenLake Lighthouse.) We proceed to innovate on this platform, and our newest breakthroughs will combine Undertaking Aurora, the excellent edge-to-cloud zero-trust safety structure that we introduced in June (see Introducing Undertaking Aurora) close to the top of the yr.
The most recent improvements prolong HPE Silicon Root of Belief, which we’ve supplied for a number of years now, up the stack to the software program stage. Root of Belief protects {hardware} on the silicon stage and ensures that the bottom stage firmware is thought good proper out of our manufacturing unit. This safe {hardware} basis can vouch for the trusted state of different items and set up a digital chain of belief. What that allows us to do, and what we’ve accomplished in HPE GreenLake Lighthouse, is prolong that attestation and verification as much as the software program layer and even to workloads.
HPE GreenLake Lighthouse now delivers:
- A single, safe management airplane with zero-trust attestation from the {hardware} and firmware all the best way as much as the container and VM ranges, and from the sting to the cloud. It provides you the arrogance that each piece in that total digital supply chain is safe.
- Energetic validation. Zero-trust just isn’t a once-and-done sort of factor. Our new zero-trust structure provides you ongoing safety in opposition to refined malware by constantly validating the infrastructure, platforms, and workloads to establish threats.
As well as, we’re working to leverage SPIFFE, a set of open-source requirements for securely authenticating software program providers, within the safety structure. Along with SPIRE, an open-source system for implementing SPIFFE, it will present a technique to set up belief with out essentially utilizing secrets and techniques or network-based safety controls. Keys are rotated and securely managed behind the scenes inside the resolution.
That final level is especially thrilling for me. We want extra superior and automatic mechanisms for validating providers and sophisticated entities past only a individual’s identification. HPE GreenLake Lighthouse opens the prospect of automated identification administration that shall be leaps and bounds forward of what we now have at this time, very similar to fashionable two-factor authentication is leaps and bounds forward of a static password system.
Think about a world the place no human ever must consistently sort in passwords once more! HPE GreenLake Lighthouse is a giant step in that course. And that’s an encouraging thought to remember this Cybersecurity Consciousness Month.
Learn extra about our zero-trust structure and the way HPE helps you rework safety from a barrier to an innovation accelerator.
Study extra about HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform – the cloud that involves you, wherever your apps and knowledge reside – and the way HPE GreenLake cloud providers allow you to ship enterprise outcomes sooner.
John Gromala
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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