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HPE acquires Niara to
boost Aruba Networks
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PE Aruba has acquired Niara,
a developer of User and Entity
Behaviour Analytics (UEBA)
market space, with the aim of further
helping their customers detect and
protect themselves against advanced
cyber-attacks that have penetrated their
perimeter defences.
Niara’s products employ machine learning
and big data analytics on enterprise
packet streams and log streams to
discover these advanced attacks.
The Niara solution automatically
establishes baseline characteristics
for all users and devices across the
enterprise, globally. After a baseline is
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established, the software actively looks
for anomalous, inconsistent activities
that may indicate a security threat.
Investigating individual security incidents
that can take up to 25 hours each via
traditional manual processes can now
be performed in less than a minute, in
four mouse clicks, due to the power of
machine learning.
By integrating Niara’s behavioural
analytics technology with ClearPass
Policy Manager, HPE can now
offer customers a reinforced threat
detection and prevention solution for
network security in wired and wireless
environments, as well as Internet of
Things (IoT) devices.
Niara’s deep roots with Aruba
In addition to adding a new tool to the
ClearPass security arsenal, the acquisition
welcomes back personnel who were part
of the Aruba team in the early days and
contributed greatly to market success.
Niara co-founders Sriram Ramachandran
(CEO) and Prasad Palkar (Vice President,
Engineering), along with several other
engineers, are returning to Aruba. This
team developed the core technologies in
the current ArubaOS operating system,
including authentication, encryption,
deep-packet inspection and more.
Reducing the time to discover attacks
was the core of the problem that
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