Network & Security Automation

At the Scale of the Edge

Victor da Costa
Go to Market Specialist - Automation
EMEA

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 What we’ll discuss today

● Market Overview
● Networking and Security automation
● Automation at the Scale of the Edge

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 Market overview

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 Innovation velocity, operational agility
New platforms enable digital transformation

Kubernetes
Security DevOps
Containers

Machine Hybrid
learning cloud
Digital
Innovation transformation
Open source Cloud Open
communities organization
IoT Automation
AI

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77%
77% of technology professionals see room for
improvement in their data center network
automation strategies

Source:EMA Research Report, The Future of Network Automation, February, 2022

 Security Challenges

5% 57% 65% 29%

Have their ideal security-

Portion of alerts coming in Reported increased
Said the time to resolve skilled staffing level,
that the average security Severity of attacks
an incident has grown making it the #2 barrier to
team examines every day
Cyber resilience

Source:
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1 The Third Annual Study on the Cyber Resilient Organization - Ponemon Institute, 2018 (Sponsored by IBM)

2 https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/16/the-lesson-behind-2017s-biggest-enterprise-security-story/
 Complexity can be a business challenge

“45% of cloud decision makers surveyed Operational technology leaders “deploy an

listed complexity of managing multiple edge computing solution that is modular, is
technologies as one of their top three scalable, is easy to manage and can
challenges.” accommodate additional use cases with
minimum additional investments.”
Industry GTM Enablement Plan
- Industrie 4.0 Market Guide for Edge Computing
Solutions for Industrial IoT

Sources: Gartner Industry GTM Enablement Plan - Industrie 4.0, 2021 - Gartner “Market Guide for Edge Computing Solutions for Industrial IoT,” Aug 2021
 Networking and security
Automation

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100+
Infrastructure Cloud Network Security

certified content
collections
 Build bridges across the organization
Different teams, differing skill sets, single platform

Consistent governance
Cloud

Edge Datacenter

Line of business

OT Operations IT ops DevSecOps Network ops

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 Security

Networking
Applications Infrastructure
Today's networks are growing in size and
complexity.

From edge devices to heavier hybrid cloud

demands, manual methods can’t keep pace
with network provisioning and management
needs. Ansible Automation Platform brings a
single solution to help teams integrate within
and across networking and other IT areas for
faster response.

Cloud

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 Networking Automation

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE AWARENESS NETWORK VALIDATION

Platform agnostic configuration
management to standardize and
enforce best-practices.
Track network resources through
facts gathering, to perform
preventive maintenance, reducing
outage risks and costs of
unnecessary hardware-refresh.
Examine operational state to to
check network connectivity and
protocols and enhance operational
workflows to help measure network
intent.

Switch Load Balancer IPS Proxy Firewall Router IoT Wireless Probes SDx NMS

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 Security
Applications Infrastructure
Securing an enterprise from the
growing number of threats is a matter
of the highest priority.

Ansible Automation Platform provides a

more efficient, streamlined way to automate
security practices, using Ansible to “stitch
together” all the different tools used as part
of those activities. Respond to threats
across the enterprise in a coordinated,
unified way, using a curated collection of
modules, roles, and playbooks. Networking

Cloud
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 Security Automation

INVESTIGATION ENRICHMENT THREAT HUNTING INCIDENT RESPONSE

Programmatic access to log Automation of alerts, correlation Creation of new security policies to
configurations such as destination, searches and signature whitelist, blocklist or quarantine a
verbosity, etc. manipulation. machine.

IPS Firewall Probes PAM SIEM

WAP Proxy

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 Edge Far Edge
Near Edge
Automating edge computing at scale is
extremely complex.

Ansible Automation Platform enables

organizations to scale their highly
distributed infrastructures, with consistent
management of a complex set of edge
devices. And it provides predictability and
repeatability to automate with confidence
at the edge.

Datacenter

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 Edge Automation

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT BRANCH AUTOMATION FAR-EDGE AUTOMATION

Automate scale and complexity with
a consistent platform from the
datacenter to the edge across
heterogeneous estates.
Predictability and repeatability to
automate POS, Wifi access points,
networking routers, ticketing
systems, IoT devices, or anything
with programmatic API or Linux OS.
Rapid response to remediate
security threats and incident events,
reducing MTTR and improving SLAs.

Cloud Virtualization Compute Network Security Storage Sensors PLC

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 Automation at the Scale of
the Edge

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 Edge computing trends

>50%
Data will be created and processed
outside the DC

By 2025, bandwidth cost will be the

primary driver for new edge computing
deployments, versus latency in 2021

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Source: Gartner, Predicts 2022: The Distributed Enterprise Drives Computing to the Edge, Thomas Bittman, Bob Gill, Tim Zimmerman, Ted Friedman, Neil MacDonald, Karen Brown
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 Scaling and extending automation to the last mile

Retail
Automotive Manufacturing Digital in-store experience
Predictive maintenance Quality assurance

Health–life science Energy Public sector

Patient diagnosis/treatment Monitoring & control Sensor-based asset monitoring

Financial Telecommunications Hospitality

Data sovereignty Network efficiency Biometric check-in

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What is automation mesh?

Automation controller

WebUI
▸ It is an overlay network intended to
ease the distribution of work across
API
a large and dispersed collection of
workers.

▸ Automation mesh establishes Automation mesh

peer-to-peer connections with
each other via existing networks.
Execution nodes

execution environment execution environment execution environment

The flexibility to scale, wherever that may be

Global enterprise

Regional
footprint

Farthest edge nodes

 Wrap Up

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 Logistics and transportation: North America

Challenge
Simplify management of customer data, devices, and equipment that form part of
the railway infrastructure.

Solution
Wayside Data Management – a secure platform that containerizes customer
applications and uses Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform for life-cycle
“It's been great working with
management.
Red Hat, and the team has
been tremendous to work
Why Red Hat
with. We look forward to a
long relationship.” Red Hat is a trusted partner, and its mature product offering has been scanned for
vulnerabilities, reducing the risk of issues or disruption that could impact running the
railway.
Brian Buckley
Director of Innovation, Results
Alstom
● Improved data management and analytics
● Safeguarded mission critical infrastructure, including tens of thousands of
track-side devices that are dispersed throughout America
● Automated testing, security scanning, and deployment

Products and services

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Consulting
Source: Red Hat Summit presentation. “Alstom and Red Hat Automate the railside edge for more customer value,” June 2021.
 Transportation: EMEA
Challenge
Establish an IT infrastructure that could take advantage of the new 4G LTE mobile
router connection to centrally manage all of the intelligent devices across rail
network

Solution
To manage this infrastructure, the Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) uses Red Hat®
Satellite, a solution that keeps Red Hat Enterprise Linux® environments and other
Red Hat infrastructure running efficiently and in compliance with security and
Reduced device other standards. Red Hat Ansible Automation also helps SBB automate complex
configuration deployments and centrally control its IT infrastructure through a visual dashboard.

times by more than Why Red Hat

90%, from 5 days to “Red Hat was one of the few vendors that could claim 10 years of support for its
operating system,” said Sascha Berger, SBB Systems Engineer.
3 hours
Results
● Connected more than 100,000 devices on board 40 trains, with plans to
connect up to 300 trains by early 2020
● Enhanced security for critical national transportation infrastructure with
role-based access controls
● Established comprehensive device access for easier service updates and
innovation
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Red Hat Ansible® Automation Red Hat Consulting
Source: Red Hat SBB case study, October 2019.
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
 Utilities: EMEA
“At Schneider Electric, we see
edge computing as a paradigm
shift that's going to bring
about a digital revolution in
industrial controls, enabling
unprecedented capabilities
and functionality that we
haven't seen before. It's really
going to be a game changer
going forward.”
Merrill Harriman
Systems Architect,
Schneider Electric
Source: Red Hat Schneider Electric presentation at
2020 Red Hat Summit, April 2020.
Presentation abstract
Industrial automation has security and performance requirements that often require
that real-time analytics be performed onsite or in an air-gapped environment. This
leads to a network security measure being employed on one or more computers to
ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured
networks. How then can the factory of the future take advantage of the fantastic
capabilities of the cloud?
Presentation summary
● This French multinational corporation specializing in electrical equipment,
together with Red Hat, called upon open source technologies to help
manage the complex life cycle of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and deliver
real-time analytics and factory optimization to the right device at the right
time.
● Bringing the best of open source cloud technologies onsite and automating
everything helped Schneider Electric use the capabilities of the cloud.
● Hybrid cloud and Red Hat® Ansible® technologies has led to factories at
Schneider Electric responding more intelligently to changing conditions with
greener credentials and improved business results.
Products and services
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux®
Red Hat Satellite
 In Summary

Overcome complexity Improve efficiency

Maximize current resources while investing and
Codify standards across hybrid infrastructure
involving your entire IT organization.

Innovate Increase productivity

Help your staff be more productive and get to Accelerate business outcomes and consolidate tools
market faster across entire hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

Reduce risk and cost Move budget to innovation

Reducing operational cost means being able to move
Increase accountability and compliance, and reduce
budget to Innovation using Ansible as lingua franca.
the cost of production
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