HPE Discover 2021: HPE Project Aurora

HPE is that company that does their thing so well, one tends to take them for granted because all aspects of your engagement with them seem to be humming along splendidly.

HPE Project Aurora is HPE’s zero-trust security scheme that utilizes cloud nativity to deliver security from the edge to the cloud.

According to HPE’s Keith White, General Manager for HPE GreenLake, Project Aurora would be tasked to deliver an impactful results in helping secure computing environments by constantly verifying all assets in that same environment, from all hardware, all software, and all connected devices all the way to all workloads.

Project Aurora will initially be embedded within HPE GreenLake Lighthouse to automatically and continuously verify the integrity of the hardware, firmware, operating systems, platforms, and workloads (including workloads from security vendors as well), enabling HPE to swiftly detect advanced threats in seconds compared to a reported average of 24 days, minimizing the loss, and possibly, the unauthorized encryption (and corruption) of valuable data and intellectual property.

Futurum’s Steven Dickens sees a 3-pronged hardware approach taken by HPE Project Aurora:

  1. Increase data value through attestation and verification.

  2. Accelerate innovation by laying a zero trust foundation.

  3. Identify attacks and protect investments.

Project Aurora is being built both for HPE and its customers to measure, test and verify every piece of technology in their environments.

According to HPE, Project Aurora is a cloud-native, zero trust security from edge to cloud. That means, as we know, SASE is one aspect of the edge implementation with security. The other one is zero trust. Zero trust means you trust nothing, but ultimately it is how we attest that everything in your environment is secure from the user to the application to the operating system to the firmware to the hardware.

You are very familiar with our Silicon Root of Trust. We have taken that to the next level with our cloud-native zero trust integration of SPIFFE [the Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone] and SPIRE [the SPIFFE Runtime Environment] in a cloud-native deployment of open source. But then what we do is connect to these endpoints and in between to attest that everything is secure with a zero trust approach, which I think is revolutionary because it fortifies all your investments. Without changing anything, we actually make it more secure in a modern, open way.

We are making that introduction tomorrow as a preview. By the end of the year it will be fully integrated with both Lighthouse and with HPE GreenLake. So it comes with a platform and it comes with the solution you are deploying—one less thing to worry about.

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