Black Hat USA 2025: HPE Unveils New AI-Driven Security and Advanced Data Protection Innovations

HPE announced an expansion of its cybersecurity, resiliency and compliance solutions that takes a multi-layered approach to protect enterprises through industry-leading data, network and system security.

At Black Hat USA, the company is showcasing its combined secure networking portfolio – built on HPE Aruba Networking and HPE Juniper Networking – and announcing expansive updates across its portfolio:

HPE advances network security with a new SASE copilot for Aruba Networking EdgeConnect that provides AI-driven insights on network activity, security gaps and more. Aruba Networking Central NAC also expands zero trust policy enforcement to both HPE Juniper Networking and 3rd-party devices.
HPE extends its leadership in hybrid cloud data security and resiliency with the Alletra Storage MP X10000 data protection solution. The offering optimizes the X10000 – software-defined, scale-out, all-flash object storage for AI – for modern data protection and sets a new standard with a world’s fastest enterprise backup storage ⁽¹⁾.
To simplify system security and DR, HPE Zerto Software will offer a new integration hub that enables 3rd-party applications to access Zerto data. CrowdStrike is the exclusive integration launch partner further enhancing how enterprises recover from incidents with HPE Zerto.

“With the rise in both the volume and sophistication of cyber threats, organizations need advanced solutions to mitigate risk, defend against attacks and build resiliency, across their entire IT estate,” said David Hughes, SVP and GM, SASE and security, HPE Networking. “HPE’s security solutions are designed to enable a multi-layered, zero-trust approach to protection, including AI-driven capabilities for continuous validation, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.”

Aruba Networking extends zero trust solutions with new security monitoring and controls
Following the announcement of GreenLake Intelligence with HPE Aruba Networking Central agentic mesh at Discover 2025, the company continues expanding agentic AI across its portfolio with a new SASE copilot for Aruba Networking EdgeConnect. The new AI-powered assistant analyzes network and security conditions to deliver precise, actionable insights to investigate open ports, identify unpatched systems, pinpoint security gaps, or monitor activity on the network.

The expansion of HPE Aruba Networking Central NAC now enforces security policies for Juniper and 3rd-party vendors with global identity-based, granular controls for users and IoT devices.
Integration of AppEngine with Aruba Networking Central for real-time app classification, enabling risk-based policy enforcement, granular visibility, and centralized control.
Proactive threat defense with WebCC and URL filtering to deliver real-time threat intelligence for HPE unified SASE to block malicious sites, bad IPs, and risky content.

Accelerates enterprise data protection and resilience with breakthrough performance
The company is strengthening enterprise data resiliency against cyber threats with the general availability of the new Alletra Storage MP X10000 data protection solution. By increasing computing resources and optimizing for backup software performance, the firm extends its AI-ready X10000 object storage into a data protection solution that delivers ultra-fast backup and restore. The massively scalable all-flash solution is purpose-designed to enable ultra-low RPOs and RTOs in industries like healthcare, finance, media, and IT services – where recovering data in minutes, not days, is critical to compliance, privacy, and business continuity.

The scale-out disaggregated storage architecture provides enterprises with the flexibility to increase capacity, performance, or both as data backup volumes increase.
HPE achieves up to 1.2PB/hour data backup speeds – nearly twice as fast as its closest competitors ⁽²⁾.
StoreOnce Catalyst software optimizes storage efficiency with up to 60:1 data reduction and works in tandem with a customer’s preferred enterprise data protection software provider. Commvault Cloud, Cohesity NetBackup, and Veeam Data Platform – with an upcoming release – are a 1st data protection partners validated for the X10000 solution.

Zerto Software strengthens cyber resiliency with new integration hub
HPE Zerto Software is introducing a new integration hub for 3rd-party cybersecurity solutions, with CrowdStrike as the exclusive launch partner. The integration hub can connect Zerto with everything from cybersecurity software to enterprise networking – including upcoming support for HPE Networking devices – to generate insights, automate workflows and simplify data protection and DR.

The integration between CrowdStrike and Zerto delivers a combination of industry-leading threat detection and cyber recovery – enabling organizations to minimize the impact of ransomware and other advanced threats. With the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, security teams can detect malicious activity targeting critical workloads in real time. When a threat is identified, the Falcon platform enables Zerto to restore applications and virtual machines to clean recovery points from just seconds before the attack. The new integration also accelerates recovery within the HPE Cyber Resilience Vault, which combines Zerto, Alletra Storage MP, ProLiant, and Aruba to deliver a fully air-gapped, zero-trust environment for ransomware protection and recovery.

“Our partnership with HPE reflects CrowdStrike’s commitment to delivering integrated, outcome-driven solutions that keep customers ahead of today’s adversaries,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike. “By combining the power of the AI-native Falcon platform with HPE Zerto’s recovery capabilities, we’re enabling organizations to stop breaches, minimize downtime, and maintain business continuity – even in the face of ransomware and other disruptive threats.”

The CrowdStrike and Zerto integrations build upon the ongoing strategic partnership between HPE and CrowdStrike, which also includes GreenLake, OpsRamp Software, and Aruba Networking solutions.

Additionally, HPE is validating and certifying Zerto for the latest guidelines and requirements from United States governmental agencies, specifically CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guides) and FIPS (Federal Information Process Standards).

To advance system security at the storage infrastructure layer, the company also created a new cybersecurity Center of Excellence focused on detecting and validating storage systems against ransomware and emerging cyber threats. The firm has validated theAlletra Storage MP B10000’s built-in ransomware and threat detection against the top 25 ransomware strains.

Black Hat USA: HPE to showcase unified networking portfolio and advanced data protection solutions
For the 1st time since the close of HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks, HPE will showcase its unified portfolio of network security innovations – along with the latest data protection and cyber resiliency solutions – at Black Hat USA, August 5–7, 2025, at booth #2261. This debut marks a major milestone – highlighting how the company is bringing together AI-native networking and advanced data protection solutions to secure hybrid cloud environments with exceptional precision, scale, and operational simplicity. The firm will spotlight innovations across its networking and hybrid cloud portfolios, including the Juniper networking next-gen firewalls. The Juniper SRX 4700 boasts an industry’s highest firewall throughput per rack unit (up to 1.4Tb/s) ⁽³⁾ and helps enterprises, telcos and cloud providers implement true zero trust architectures and mesh firewall capabilities that deliver uncompromising performance, industry-leading efficacy, and simplified operations.

Availability:

Alletra Storage MP X10000 data protection solution is available.
HPE Zerto Software integration hub will be available in the 4th quarter of 2025.

⁽¹⁾ Based on HPE’s analysis of publicly available performance and benchmark data for purpose-built data protection appliances as of July 2025. Performance results based on internal HPE testing of a 4-node data protection accelerator configuration with a 3-node, 1-JBOF HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 cluster. Actual performance may vary based on workload, deduplication ratio, backup software, and deployment environment.
⁽²⁾ Based on HPE’s analysis of publicly available performance and benchmark data for purpose-built data protection appliances as of July 2025. Performance results based on internal HPE testing of a 4-node data protection accelerator configuration with a 3-node, 1-JBOF HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 cluster. Actual performance may vary based on workload, deduplication ratio, backup software, and deployment environment.
⁽³⁾ Based on HPE Juniper Networking analysis of publicly available performance data for single rack unit configuration from the industry’s leading firewall vendors, as of July 2025.

Resources:
Blog: Top 3 innovations in network security from Black Hat 2025
Blog: HPE sets new data protection standard with world’s fastest enterprise backup storage
Blog: Level up your cyber resilience with HPE Zerto Software and CrowdStrike integration
Blog: HPE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence: Advancing Ransomware Resilience