{"id":51601,"date":"2023-04-24T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3694568\/arista-streamlines-network-access-control-via-saas.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-04-24T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:29:00","slug":"arista-streamlines-network-access-control-via-saas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/arista-streamlines-network-access-control-via-saas\/","title":{"rendered":"Arista streamlines network access control via SaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arista Networks has rolled out a SaaS-based service aimed at helping enterprises more network access control (NAC) more easily.<\/p>\n

The service, called CloudVision Guardian for Network Identity (CV-AGNI) uses real-time telemetry from Arista\u2019s network products, combines it with data from its CloudVision management platform<\/a>, and uses artificial intelligence to evaluate the information and implement security policies. <\/p>\n

The service can also onboard new devices, authenticate existing users, segment devices on the network, or help troubleshoot problems from a cloud-based system, according to Pramod Badjate, group vice president and general manager, of Arista\u2019s Cognitive Campus group. <\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically the enterprise identity store would be in some on-prem system like Active Directory that has hardware or a series of VMs<\/a> associated with it, and making changes to that system requires lots of manual work. In addition they’re very costly to scale up, and difficult to scale down. So if you had a really small organization, NAC<\/a> almost cost prohibitive because of the starting scale to deploy the solution,\u201d Badjate said.  \u201cBut as cloud application authentication increases we think it only makes sense to do NAC from a cloud, AI-based system that can be updated quickly,\u201d Badjate said. He said that CV-AGNI can cut policy deployment time by up to 75%.<\/p>\n

Arista has implemented a natural-language, generative AI-based system in CV-AGNI called Autonomous Virtual Assist (AVA) that utilizes Arista and third-party datasets in Arista\u2019s NetDL architecture to support the service.<\/p>\n

The Ask AVA service brings a chat-like interface for configuring, troubleshooting, and analyzing enterprise security policies and device onboarding, Badjate said. <\/p>\n