Avaya launches Avaya Surge Security Solution
2017-02-16
Avaya has announced a new solution that helps companies mitigate cyber-attacks that can occur through IoT-connected devices. A unique, security and management solution, Avaya Surge – formerly SDN Fx Healthcare – runs on any vendor’s network to enable companies in any vertical industry to protect valuable data from unauthorized access through IoT devices.
Avaya Surge now offers an alternative that significantly reduces complexity and cost while dramatically improving the process of tightly securing and managing thousands of devices. Avaya Surge simply pairs the IoT edge device with a small adapter to make it an intelligent network node through which it can centrally control security and management. Once implemented, Avaya Surge delivers the following core capabilities:
Secures – HyperSec zoning is the technology set that creates encrypted zones and enables Surge to isolate and filter traffic from device to destination. IoT devices are less visible and protected from harmful traffic such as viruses and malware.
Automates – Providing the elasticity needed for securing the everywhere perimeter, Avaya Surge uses centrally-set, “Follow-me” profiles applied on a by-device basis. When disconnected from the network, profiles disappear. When re-connected, profiles are automatically re-assigned.
Learns – Avaya Surge automatically learns and updates from traffic flows, providing continuous, ongoing security improvement. The solution also reports asset utilization that details the operational activity of devices. In addition, the solution offers programmable APIs to enable organizations to customize services and applications.
Avaya Surge will be available through Avaya Channel Partners in the second quarter of 2017.
Marc Randall, SVP and GM, Avaya Networking, said, “Security is the Number One issue facing growth of IoT. Unless this is solved in a practical manner, limits on innovation, digital transformation and productivity will soon be reached. Avaya Surge is the easy, practical, cost-effective and proven solution that companies need as they expand IoT strategies and deployments and move their organizations forward.”
John E. Burke, CIO & Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research, said, "What we saw in our research with early Avaya Surge adopters was a complete elimination of hands-on IT staff time in installing or moving networked medical equipment – anyone could plug a new device into the network and move devices from place to place, confident in the network's ability to secure them properly. Some were expecting to also reduce wiring and switching costs in medical spaces, by as much as 60%, through elimination of 'color-coded-by-VLAN' wiring practices; others were anticipating reducing the number of firewalls deployed in their LAN environments by as much as 97% through use of Avaya Surge."
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