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Unified SASE: From Two Consoles to One Operational Model

By MY-cf21d9 posted 10 days ago
The hardest part of SASE is not getting SD-WAN and SSE to work. It is getting the teams and tools behind them to work together. Unified SASE is not a third technology. It is what happens when SD-WAN and SSE stop living in separate management planes and ...
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Role-Based Microsegmentation from Campus to Branch

By MY-cf21d9 posted 17 days ago
Consider three employees connected to the same network: an engineer, an HR manager, and a finance analyst. They share the same VLAN, subnet, and IP address range. From a traditional IP-based policy perspective, the network primarily sees where they are ...
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Demystifying SASE: Follow the Traffic

By MY-cf21d9 posted 19 days ago
SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is often described as the convergence of networking and security. That definition is accurate, but it can also make SASE sound more complicated than it needs to be. SASE = SD-WAN + SSE SD-WAN provides resilient ...
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: What Actually Changes in the Network?

By MY-cf21d9 posted 21 days ago
Why PQC Matters Now Quantum computing is often described as a future problem. That makes it easy to think we can deal with post-quantum cryptography, or PQC, later. But some of the data we protect today needs to remain confidential for many years. ...
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Understanding SSE: Beyond the Acronyms

By MY-cf21d9 posted 23 days ago
SSE (Security Service Edge) comes with a lot of acronyms: SWG, CASB, DLP, ZTNA, FWaaS . But most of the underlying security concepts are familiar. A useful way to understand SSE is to start with what each service actually does, then look at what changes ...
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🚀 A New Chapter for Enterprise Networking: CX Meets Mist

By YN-3193cf posted Sep 03, 2026
CX Meets Mist Yesterday marked an exciting milestone as we shared the next step in the evolution of enterprise networking. The networking industry is undergoing one of its biggest transformations in decades. Networks are no longer just about connectivity. ...
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Before the Next Incident: 4 HPE-SRX Controls to Enable Now

By MH-Nh1358 posted Jul 27, 2026
Before the Next Incident: 4 HPE-SRX Controls to Enable Now Most organizations already have more firewall capability than they actively use. In many environments, the firewall is still treated mainly as a policy enforcement point, (NGFW and ...
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Security Where Traffic Flows: Why CX10K and CX10040 Redefine Microsegmentation Beyond Host

By dchowdhu posted Apr 28, 2026
As modern data centers evolve to support AI workloads, cloud-native applications, distributed services, and mission-critical enterprise operations, security can no longer remain a function bolted onto the perimeter. The majority of enterprise traffic ...
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The PHY-ast and the Fi-rious

By Dan_C posted Apr 02, 2026
Introduction Reliability is important, but most consumers of Wi-Fi are more like Dominic Toretto and live their life one quarter mile at a time and always want their Wi-Fi (or 10 second car) to go as fast as possible. In this post I wanted to highlight ...
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Release the JBOR! - Wi-Fi Survey Tools

By Dan_C posted Apr 02, 2026
Introduction Wireless surveys are important in the planning, troubleshooting, and the validation of a Wi-Fi deployment. The Wi-Fi software survey solutions available today for surveys are excellent in the planning and design aspect of a Wi-Fi deployment ...
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It Takes Two to Tango - Discovering Wireless Client Capabilities

By Dan_C posted Mar 22, 2026
Introduction Want to enable new Wi-Fi features in your environment? How do you confirm your clients supported features? There are several optional features to enable on your wireless clients to best experience. Some of the common features not generally ...
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It's Beacon-ing to look a lot like a distribution system issue

By Dan_C posted Mar 06, 2026
Introduction Like many network people, I use WLAN scanner software to view surrounding wirlesss networks. I specifically use Wi-Fi Explorer Pro 3 by Intuitibits when I have my MacBook as a tool to scan, investigate, and troubleshoot wireless networks. ...
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Auto AP Placement: The Full Breakdown + Live Demo

By Aiman Patel posted Jan 06, 2026
Indoor positioning can feel complex, especially when you're trying to manually place APs accurately on a floor plan. To simplify this process, I’ve created a 12-minute end-to-end walkthrough of AP Auto Locate : a practical guide that covers everything ...
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Inside SD-Branch: The Tunnel Orchestrator

By n_laura posted Nov 04, 2025
Before any routing or security policies can come to life, something far more fundamental must happen: the network must be able to connect securely and intelligently . That foundation is built by the Overlay Tunnel Orchestrator ...
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Unlocking Visibility, Security, and Resilience with CX10K: From Observability to Automation

By dchowdhu posted Oct 11, 2025
Modern data centers are no longer static networks of switches—they are distributed, service-aware systems where compute, storage, and network boundaries blur. As applications adopt microservice architectures and east–west traffic becomes dominant, traditional ...
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Why SD-Branch?

By n_laura posted Oct 02, 2025
Aruba’s Wi‑Fi, dynamic segmentation, and role-based access controls are widely known — but what often goes unnoticed is the orchestration layer that ties everything together. At the c ore of that is the SD‑Branch Orchestrator — ...
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From Ransomware to Resilience: How the Network Becomes Your Strongest Defense

By dchowdhu posted Sep 24, 2025
The modern data center faces a dual challenge: delivering the performance and agility required by AI, cloud-native, and mission-critical workloads—while also standing resilient against ransomware and advanced threats. Traditional perimeter defenses and ...
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Web content and reputation classification in the age of ECH and QUIC

By SP-2ac5cc posted Jul 30, 2025
W eb content and reputation classification plays a critical role in enforcing security policies and protecting users from threats. Attackers increasingly host malware, phishing kits, and command-and-control infrastructure on legitimate-looking websites. ...
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A Practical Guide to SSE Agent Troubleshooting

By Gobo posted Feb 28, 2025
A Practical Guide to SSE Agent Troubleshooting by matt.hum@hpe.com One of the questions I get asked often is, "How do I debug or troubleshoot the HPE Aruba Networking SSE agent?" This can be especially relevant when a destination or application ...
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Simple zero trust networking (part 2)

By SP-2ac5cc posted Jan 21, 2025
In the first part of this blog series we focused on how HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC can help you identify every user and device and build simple policies to assign each to the desired user-role. That’s a great first step in your zero trust journey! ...
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