Aruba Earns FedRAMP Approval for Cloud Management Platform

HPE’s Aruba has big news.

Federal government users now may officially buy Aruba Central, a cloud-native platform for managing campus, branch, remote and data center networks. Aruba recently earned formal “Authorized” designation with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).

The means Aruba Central now qualifies as meeting the Office of Management and Budget’s FedRAMP policies. As such, federal agencies can use Aruba Central for their unified WLAN, switching and VPN edge-to-cloud infrastructure.

FedRAMP promotes adoption of secure cloud services across the U.S. federal government. Companies that earn FedRAMP approvals have proven they comply with standards for security and risk assessment, authorization, continuous monitoring and more.

“We’re seeing our government customers migrate an increasing number of workloads to public, private and hybrid cloud environments, and this is placing an increased emphasis on FedRAMP compliance,” said Dolan Sullivan, vice president of Federal for Aruba. “Security is built in to our solutions from the ground up and today’s announcement underscores Aruba’s commitment to helping government customers modernize their networks and leverage innovative technologies to solve their most pressing IT challenges while mitigating risk.”

Such protections are critical, said Jon Green, Aruba’s chief security officer.

“Delivering services from the public cloud always results in security and risk management concerns,” he said. “Our customers are being asked to trust us to take care of their data without themselves having direct visibility into our security practices. Accreditations like FedRAMP provide assurance to our customers that an independent, federally authorized auditing organization has inspected each of our security controls and found them sufficient.”