Arista Networks has rolled out a SaaS-based service targeted at assisting business more network access control (NAC) more easily.The service
, called CloudVision Guardian for Network Identity (CV-AGNI) uses real-time telemetry from Arista’s network products, integrates it with information from its CloudVision management platform, and uses expert system to assess the information and carry out security policies.
The service can also onboard brand-new gadgets, confirm existing users, segment devices on the network, or assist troubleshoot problems from a cloud-based system, according to Pramod Badjate, group vice president and general manager, of Arista’s Cognitive School group.
“Historically the enterprise identity shop would remain in some on-prem system like Active Directory site that has hardware or a series of VMs related to it, and making modifications to that system needs great deals of manual work. In addition they’re really pricey to scale up, and tough to scale down. So if you had a truly small company, NAC almost cost prohibitive since of the beginning scale to deploy the service,” Badjate said.”But as cloud application authentication increases we believe it just makes good sense to do NAC from a cloud, AI-based system that can be updated quickly,” Badjate stated. He said that CV-AGNI can cut policy deployment time by up to 75%.
Arista has actually implemented a natural-language, generative AI-based system in CV-AGNI called Autonomous Virtual Assist (AVA) that utilizes Arista and third-party datasets in Arista’s NetDL architecture to support the service.The Ask AVA service brings a chat-like user interface for configuring, repairing, and examining enterprise security policies and device onboarding, Badjate said.”The common troubleshooting
scenario is somebody could not connect and you’re attempting to figure out what occurred. So you can simply ask the question,’Why is Bob not able to link?’and the system goes and recognizes all relevant elements or policies associated with that individual offers up what may be the reason that somebody is unable to link,”Badjate said. THe business plans to expand AVA’s capabilities, wrote Arista’s CEO Jayshree Ullal in a blog
about the news.”In the future, AVA will extend these AI-driven abilities to other criteria, consisting of abnormality detections, “he wrote. In its very first version AGNI incorporates with third-party products including: Endpoint Management systems: Medigate by Claroty, CrowdStrike XDR, Palo Alto Cortex XDR. Identity Management:
- Okta, Google Work Space, Microsoft Azure, Ping Identity and OneLogin.
- Mobile phone management: Microsoft Intune, JAMF SIEM: Splunk The AGNI software application subscription
- will be license as much as 3 devices per user and will be offered in the 2nd quarter. Copyright © 2023 IDG Communications, Inc. Source
