WiteSand, a pioneer of cloud-native zero trust Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, has been acquired by Juniper Networks, a global leader in secure, AI-driven networks. Juniper’s continued efforts to offer a next-generation NAC solution as a significant aspect of their award-winning AI-driven enterprise portfolio will be accelerated by this transaction, which brings a highly experienced technical team and great technology to the firm.
NAC is a crucial component in many IT environments because it determines which devices are allowed to connect to a network safely. Traditional NAC systems, on the other hand, which leverage on premise hardware and monolith code bases, can be challenging to deploy and operate, as well as expensive to scale. Migrating NAC operations to the cloud and employing AIOps for automated provisioning, monitoring, analysis, and security can overcome these restrictions.
“Both WiteSand and Juniper share a common vision of disrupting the antiquated NAC space with cloud agility and AI-driven intelligence. Their premier NAC technology and renowned engineering team are the perfect complement to Juniper’s AI-driven enterprise portfolio, which was recently distinguished as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure with furthest scores for both ability to execute and completeness of vision. When NAC is integrated with wireless assurance, wired assurance, WAN assurance, IoT assurance, and indoor location services under a common Mist cloud and AI umbrella, Juniper customers can deliver amazing experiences to their network users, from the client all the way to the cloud,”
Sujai Hajela, EVP AI-Driven Enterprise, Juniper Networks