Recent cyberattacks have demonstrated a clear need for zero-trust architecture in cybersecurity.

To address this security gap, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has launched Project Aurora, which enables zero-trust security architectures from edge to cloud.

“Zero Trust is a way of providing a mechanism for enterprises to allow for everything in their enterprise, whether it’s a server, a human or anything in between, to be verified and attested to before they’re allowed to access or transact in certain ways,” said Sunil James (pictured), senior director for security engineering at HPE.

James spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the HPE Discover event. They discussed Project Aurora, as well as the importance of zero trust. architecture. (* Disclosure below.)

Inside Project Aurora

Project Aurora was built both for HPE and its customers to measure, test and verify every piece of technology, whether it’s a server or anything else, according to James.

“We’ve got a long way to go before we’re able to cover everything that HP sells,” he said. “But for us, these capabilities are the root of zero-trust architectures. You need to be able to, at any given moment, notice, verify, measure and attest, and this is what we’re doing with Project Aurora.”

James likens the idea of Project Aurora to plumbing, in that everything needs to be built. The goal was to ensure that the plumbing is widely and uniformly distributed and made available.

“Project Aurora’s capabilities are going to provide a consistent way to do the things … to allow zero-trust architectures to become real,” James said.

Zero trust, however, is not the end all be all to stopping those threats, James pointed out. When it comes to cybersecurity, organizations need to operate from a humility standpoint, because the attack landscape is constantly changing. And tools, investments and techniques that were thought to thwart an attacker can become outdated quickly. Because of that, there needs to be more studying and evolving to prepare to attack those next threats, James added.

“We have to remain vigilant,” he said. “We have to work as hard as we can to help customers deploy zero-trust architecture, but we have to be thinking about what’s next.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE Discover event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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