Aruba, an HP Enterprise company, announces that the Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN platform has received ICSA Labs Secure SD-WAN Certification, representing the market’s first complete SD-WAN solution to receive the distinction. ICSA Labs provides third-party testing and certification of security and health IT products, as well as network-connected devices, to measure product compliance, reliability, and performance for most of the technology vendors.

“Our ICSA Labs Secure SD-WAN Certification includes rigorous security-related testing and robust SD-WAN functionality testing to validate that the SD-WAN product is secure and properly enforces consistent policy for both WAN-specific functions and security functions,” said Jack Walsh, security programs manager at ICSA Labs.

Aruba EdgeConnect Enterprise SD-WAN provides comprehensive security services at campus, branch, data center, and cloud locations including next-generation firewall, IDS/IPS, and DDoS detection and remediation. With these new features, EdgeConnect aims to replace outdated and difficult-to-manage physical firewalls at branch locations while delivering consistent security for all users, from any network location, from any device, and wherever applications are hosted. EdgeConnect provides an enhanced and comprehensive security offering for enterprises that want to establish consistent, secure, and predictable experiences across multiple locations over the WAN.

Damon Ennis, Vice President of Engineering at Aruba said, “this provides customers with well-recognized and respected third party validation of the comprehensiveness of our native EdgeConnect Enterprise advanced SD-WAN and security capabilities that connect and protect the network, from edge to cloud, across the WAN. These new features enhance our comprehensive security offerings, giving our customers flexibility and confidence when implementing security controls at the branch and across the WAN as part of network and security transformation on their journey to SASE.”