New Aruba WorkSpace Software Eliminates the High Capital and Resource Costs of Disparate BYOD Systems
Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), a leading provider of
next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise,
today announced Aruba WorkSpace, a new component of the company’s
ClearPass Access Management System. With the addition of Aruba
WorkSpace, for the first time, Network Access Control (NAC), Mobile
Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) systems
are a part of one solution and work together to secure company data and
reduce BYOD helpdesk costs.
Aruba WorkSpace is built on an enterprise network policy system, making
it network-fluent. This means higher network priority can be
automatically assigned to work applications. In the event an employee’s
device connects to an untrusted network, Aruba WorkSpace can
automatically establish application-specific VPNs to encrypt traffic and
provide uninterrupted access to internal resources. Aruba WorkSpace can
also restrict network access if a device is jail-broken or contains
unapproved applications.
“Existing approaches to BYOD have required enterprise IT departments to
integrate different systems, adding complexity and creating employee
usability and privacy concerns,” said Maribel Lopez, Principal Analyst,
Lopez Research. “By combining all functions into a single platform,
Aruba WorkSpace simplifies BYOD management, lessening the overall burden
on IT.”
Mobile Device Management Partners Integrate for Network + Device +
Application Management
As an alternative to its native device management functions, Aruba
ClearPass features integration with top Mobile Device Management
vendors, including AirWatch, Citrix, Fiberlink, JAMF Software,
MobileIron and SOTI. This integration allows customers with existing MDM
solution deployments or preferences to realize a combined value of
integrated, context-based network policy, device onboarding and
security, and a full range of mobile device management capabilities.
This integration of Aruba ClearPass and MDM solutions can orchestrate
critical mobile device security actions based on who the users are, what
device they are using, what applications they are running, and their
location. For example, mobile device cameras can be disabled if the
device is in a secure, restricted location.
Aruba WorkSpace Mobile App Protects Personal Data, Secures Business
Applications
In addition to providing comprehensive BYOD controls for IT, Aruba
WorkSpace offers unparalleled end-user controls to personalize the BYOD
experience and reduce the demands on helpdesk resources. An Aruba
WorkSpace mobile application is pushed to employee devices, allowing
employees to access and manage work applications, share AirPrint and
AirPlay devices with other users or groups, manage other on-boarded
devices, and configure guest accounts. All aspects of BYOD are
accessible to end users in one location.
To manage the use of personal mobile devices, the Aruba WorkSpace mobile
application provisions a separate, encrypted area on the devices for
work applications and content. This gives IT full control over the
corporate information in this encrypted space, but no visibility into
personal areas of the device, thereby protecting employee privacy. Aruba
WorkSpace leverages innovations and technology from Aruba’s May 2012
acquisition of Plursona Inc., founded by Shekhar Kshirhagar and Asif
Awan.
Underscoring the critical need for user privacy, a recent Mobile
Device Security Survey commissioned by Aruba and conducted by Kelton
revealed that 62% of users who bring personal devices to work worry
about IT wiping their data. Of these respondents, two out of three say
they wouldn’t immediately report the loss of these devices to their IT
department. This presents a significant security concern for enterprise
IT. With Aruba WorkSpace, the combination of NAC, MDM and MAM
capabilities integrated into one platform allows IT to secure sensitive
corporate data on these personal mobile devices without the high cost,
significant resource investment, and potential loss of user privacy and
productivity that can result from existing BYOD solutions.
Regional Medical Center at Memphis (The MED) is currently in beta with
Aruba WorkSpace. The MED includes a large level 1 Trauma hospital and
four clinics serving a five-state region within 150 miles of Memphis,
and also serves as one of the largest medical and surgical teaching
sites for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. With over
2,200 employees, including 500 nurses and 300 doctors, The MED relies on
Aruba’s WLAN solutions to provide quality patient care around the clock.
“Our physicians and medical staff depend on the wireless network to
access critical patient information,” said Cameron Parker, Manager of
Technical Services, Regional Medical Center at Memphis (The MED). “As we
expand our support for BYOD, we need a reliable solution that can
properly manage and control access of these personal mobile devices.
Given Aruba’s proven track record in network access, security and device
provisioning, Aruba’s new WorkSpace solution integrates the network, the
device and application management, which provides us with an ideal,
single vendor solution to meet all our mobility needs.”
Aruba channel partners are also excited about the opportunities they can
address with Aruba WorkSpace. “Integrating mobile device management,
mobile applications management and network access control into a single
platform delivers a powerful solution for enterprises that want to
accommodate BYOD but are concerned about cost, resources, and the
security of corporate data and users’ privacy,” said Chris Lyttle,
Accuvant managing principal consultant, mobile security. “By bolstering
its ClearPass Access Management System with its new WorkSpace offering,
Aruba is helping us to further streamline and automate the BYOD
initiatives of our enterprise clients.”
More than 40 Mobile Applications Integrated with Aruba WorkSpace
Recognizing that comprehensive BYOD management includes mobile
applications as well as the mobile devices these apps are running, Aruba
has already integrated more than 40 popular mobile applications for use
with Aruba WorkSpace via its new WorkSpace Partner Program, also
announced today, and is continuing to add more. These include a wide
variety of popular enterprise applications in the areas of file access,
business analysis, collaboration, office document editors, education,
enterprise productivity, healthcare and file sharing.
In addition, enterprise IT customers can quickly upload custom,
internally-developed or third party applications to their unique Aruba
WorkSpace Enterprise App Store for easy distribution and management.
Rich, contextual security policies can then be applied to each
application. Aruba WorkSpace also adds enterprise security features such
as Active Directory authentication, jailbreak detection and content
encryption to applications.
“The widespread adoption of iPads in the enterprise has created a
massive shift in the way businesses operate. Powerful productivity
applications like Box are enabling today's knowledge workers to be more
productive, responsive and effective in their roles, yet mobile security
is critical,” said Whitney Bouck, General Manager of Enterprise at Box.
“Aruba's app-centric approach of securing business content in Box on
mobile devices answers the needs of our security-conscious customers.”
“With mobile device and application proliferation accelerating at an
unprecedented pace, IT departments simply need a solution that
eliminates the extra work and expense associated with bridging the silos
across the network, the device and the application,” said Keerti
Melkote, Chief Technology Officer, Aruba Networks. “By integrating our
core strengths for network access control and security we can streamline
the BYOD process and take the burden and risk away from the IT
department.”
The ClearPass Access Management System is shipping now. The Aruba
WorkSpace software for ClearPass is now in beta testing and will be
available in July, 2013. A client-side software application called Aruba
WorkSpace for both iOS and Samsung Android-based devices is expected to
be available from the Apple App Store and The Google Play marketplace
also in July, 2013.
To find out more about Aruba WorkSpace, visit the following link: http://www.arubanetworks.com/beyondMDM.
To find out more about the Aruba WorkSpace Partner Program, visit the
following link: http://www.arubanetworks.com/workspace-partners
Additional Supporting Quotes
“Working with Aruba Networks allows our customers to improve security
for BYOD by tying together network policy enforcement with enterprise
mobility management. The integration of AirWatch with Aruba’s ClearPass
further provides our joint customers with a robust, efficient, and
secure mobile environment. ” – Kevin Keith, Director of Business
Development, AirWatch
“Organizations are using mobile devices to change the way they do
business. Citrix’s enterprise mobility management solution and mobile
productivity suite help them go mobile while also providing IT the
management and security it needs. This integration with Aruba provides
an end-to-end mobility story that lets organizations be more productive
on-the-go while also securing mobile devices, apps, data, and networks.”
- Sameer Mehta, Principal Product Manager, Citrix Mobile Platforms
Group, Citrix
“Securing corporate data in a BYOD environment requires end-to-end
visibility and control of the network, mobile devices and apps.
Integrating MaaS360 enterprise mobility management with
Aruba ClearPass gives our customers the flexibility to use device
context from our platform to enforce the appropriate network access
policies and increase mobile security for BYOD. ” - Jim
Szafranksi, Senior Vice President of Customer Platform Services,
Fiberlink
“The combination of JAMF Software and Aruba allows our shared customers
to improve the security of their environments by tying together Aruba's
network policy enforcement with JAMF Software's Mobile Device Management
capabilities. Layering together JAMF Software and Aruba solutions
helps these customers ensure their employees can use the device of their
choice and IT can ensure the safety of their corporate assets. ” - John
Sutcliffe, Vice President of Engineering, JAMF Software
“The MobileIron integration with Aruba ClearPass brings together two
market leading technologies. Customers can now easily use Aruba’s
network access control in conjunction with MobileIron’s mobile
application management and mobile device management capabilities to
secure mobile apps, content, and devices. The result is that IT has the
security it needs and end-users have an easy and productive experience
using their mobile devices at work.” - Ojas Rege, Vice President,
Strategy, MobileIron
“By integrating with ClearPass as well as Aruba’s other products such as
AirWave, only SOTI can provide customers with a fully-featured
end-to-end secure Enterprise Mobility Management solution to manage
corporate-liable devices as well as BYOD polices better.” - Ron
Hassanwalia, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, SOTI Inc.
About Aruba Networks, Inc.
Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access
solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company’s Mobile Virtual
Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network
infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate
headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers and guests.
This unified approach to access networks enables IT organizations and
users to securely address the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon,
dramatically improving productivity and lowering capital and operational
costs.
Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in
Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas,
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more,
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