In celebration of the RSA Conference taking place in San Francisco, HPE today announced security innovations designed to help organizations scale distributed operations, reduce cyber risk and strengthen their resilience, while maintaining consistent governance as AI adoption accelerates in the enterprise environment. To facilitate secure adoption of AI and make resilience a key business capability, HPE introduces HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls, an expanded hybrid mesh security architecture and resilience-focused enhancements to extend consistent protection across cloud, core, and edge environments.
“In the age of AI, security can no longer be added after the fact or managed in isolation. As AI workloads expand across distributed environments, networking and security must be deeply integrated to reduce risk, improve visibility, and provide the trust businesses need,” said David Hughes, SVP & GM, SASE and Security for Networking at HPE. “HPE helps customers standardize policies and apply them consistently across distributed environments, so they can confidently adopt AI without compromising performance, resilience, manageability or control, strengthening their operational resilience.”
Carrier-grade security at the edge
Comprehensive security is an essential component of HPE’s self-driving network, which combines AI-native autonomous operations with an integrated zero trust model, shared visibility and end-to-end policy enforcement, enabling networks to optimize, self-heal and improve resiliency at machine speed. As the use of AI expands to stores, clinics, campuses and branches, these distributed environments increasingly become the front lines against unmanaged access to AI, inconsistent application of policies and new avenues of data exposure, testing the resilience of organizations.
The HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series extends carrier-grade security effectiveness to smaller, space-constrained environments by maintaining a standardized security model from the core to the edge, with hardware-based protections that help prevent tampering and ensure device integrity, strengthening infrastructure resilience. With high performance and simplified management in a compact form factor, the SRX400 series helps prevent remote locations from becoming the weak link in an organization’s security strategy, improving its overall resilience.
Enterprise-level governance updates to the use of AI
More than half of organizations already use AI, which poses a new challenge: enabling productivity while reducing the risk of unintentional access or sharing of sensitive data, while maintaining high levels of resilience. The latest enhancements to HPE’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) incorporate new capabilities that enable you to govern the use of AI with confidence, improving visibility, policy control, and resiliency in distributed environments without blocking access to new tools. Among its main capabilities are:
Visibility and access management to websites and AI applications: New controls enable you to gain complete visibility into AI application usage at a glance, restrict access with a single click, and proactively block access to unauthorized or high-risk AI sites, strengthening resilience against threats.
Prompt-level inspection: To prevent data loss, security teams can implement prompt-level inspection, filtering keywords and managing file uploads to external AI tools, without giving up productive access to authorized applications, which contributes to data resiliency.
Centralized identity-based protection: These capabilities provide a unified security fabric across environments—container-based physical and virtual—ensuring that security policies follow the user and workload, not just the device, strengthening organizational resilience.
Native AI Operations: HPE Security Director simplifies security operations by automating complex flows according to industry best practices, improving efficiency and operational resilience. Enhanced chatbot capabilities go beyond basic issue resolution, offering step-by-step assistance and setup guidance on demand.
Integrated security for higher threat environments
By extending sovereign-ready security capabilities and resilience-focused enhancements across its portfolio, HPE enables organizations to protect critical workloads, strengthen their resilience, recover faster, and stay operational in the face of escalating threat scenarios:
Workload Resiliency and Recovery: HPE improves cyber resilience and disaster recovery for virtualized and cloud loads on HPE Zerto Software through expanded platform support, new recovery procedures manuals, increased enablement for AI loads (including vGPU), and integration with Microsoft Defender. Direct, secure access to immutable HPE StoreOnce data for malware and forensic analysis accelerates recovery to verified safe states, strengthening resiliency.
Confidential Computing: HPE expands its sovereign-ready security foundation by incorporating confidential computing into HPE Morpheus Software. Using trusted execution environments based on AMD and Intel hardware and centralized key management with Thales CipherTrust, HPE keeps data encrypted even during use, helping to protect sensitive loads and strengthen resilience against advanced threats.
Latest HPE Hybrid Mesh Firewall Enhancements Add Capabilities to Confidently Govern AI Use
Preparing for the post-quantum era: To anticipate the impact of quantum computing on current encryption systems, HPE has incorporated post-quantum cryptography (PQC)-ready capabilities into Junos OS Evolved and will expand its support to Junos in summer 2026. These updates align with NIST standards and include enhanced cryptographic libraries compatible with FIPS 203/204, FIPS 204-based software signing. and Quantum Buffer for SSH, strengthening cryptographic resilience. This advancement adds to HPE’s global PQC readiness strategy, including HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers with HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 7.
As organizations move towards sovereign IT infrastructures, these security solutions are designed to provide comprehensive control, compliance, protection and high levels of resilience, even in isolated environments.
Improved threat intelligence with HPE Threat Labs
To help organizations stay ahead of rapidly evolving cyber threats, HPE expands HPE Threat Labs—its research-based threat intelligence group—by incorporating new network telemetry and specialized knowledge to deliver real-time insights powered by AI. These capabilities allow you to transform threat intelligence into concrete actions more quickly, identifying emerging risks and strengthening resilience, while supporting the transition to autonomous security architectures based on Zero Trust.
