Recently, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, held its annual Atmosphere user conference in digital format. At the event, the company announced a new set of cross-portfolio, edge-to-cloud security features for its Edge Services Platform (ESP) solution. The new capabilities include the integration of the popular ClearPass policy manager secure NAC (network access control) product with the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, which came to the company with the acquisition of Silver Peak. The company also announces the integration of Aruba Threat Defense with EdgeConnect and the expansion of Aruba ESP multi-vendor security partner program. The latter enables Aruba to provide customers with a âbest-of-breedâ approach to secure access service edge (SASE), while maintaining the simplicity of a single stack. There are many, many SASE options and customers have been forced to choose between the complexity of bringing together their preferred security vendor or going with a single vendor solution. Both have challenges that are not ideal. Arubaâs multi-vendor offering creates a âbest-of-both worldsâ scenario.