HPE AI security is strengthened through new innovations that help organizations scale distributed operations and mitigate cyber risks. With zero trust, hybrid mesh architecture, and post-quantum readiness, HPE is strengthening enterprise resilience in the rapidly evolving AI era.
HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced new security innovations designed to help organizations scale distributed operations, mitigate cyber risks, and maintain consistent governance as AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise. To help organizations securely deploy AI and make resilience a core business, HPE is introducing the HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series firewalls, an expanded hybrid mesh security architecture, and resiliency-centric enhancements to extend consistent protection across cloud, core, and edge environments.
”In the AI era, security can no longer be built or managed in isolation. As AI workloads scale across distributed locations, networking and security must be deeply integrated to mitigate risk, improve visibility, and deliver the trust that businesses demand,”, says David Hughes, SVP & GM, SASE and Security for Networking, HPE. ”HPE helps customers standardize policies and consistently enforce them across distributed environments so they can use AI with confidence while preserving performance, resiliency, manageability, and control.” 
Operator-grade security to the limit
Integrated security is a core component of HPE’s self-governing network, which combines autonomous, AI-powered operations with built-in zero trust, shared visibility, and end-to-end policy enforcement so networks can optimize, self-heal, and protect themselves at machine speed. As AI adoption expands to retail stores, clinics, campuses, and branch offices, these distributed locations are increasingly becoming the front lines of unmanaged AI access, inconsistent policy enforcement, and new avenues for data exposure.
HPE The Juniper Networking SRX400 Series extends carrier-class security effectiveness to smaller sites and space-constrained environments, supporting a standardized security posture from core to edge, with hardware-based protections that help protect against tampering and establish trusted device integrity. With high performance and streamlined manageability in a compact form factor, the SRX400 helps protect remote sites from becoming the weak link in an organization's security strategy.
Hybrid mesh updates provide enterprise-level governance of AI usage on
More than half of all organizations use AI within their organizations , creating a new challenge: enabling productivity while reducing the risk of sensitive data being inadvertently accessed or shared. HPE’s latest hybrid mesh firewall enhancements introduce new capabilities that help organizations confidently govern AI deployments by improving visibility and policy control across distributed environments without imposing a lock on new tools. Key features include:
- Visibility and access management for AI websites and applications: New controls enable organizations 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 websites.
- Prompt inspection: To prevent data loss, security teams can now implement prompt inspection, filter keywords, and manage file uploads to external AI tools while still providing productive access to approved applications.
- Centralized identity-based protection: These features provide a unified security fabric across all environments – physical, virtual, and containerized – ensuring that security policies follow the user and workload, not just the device.
- AI-based operation: HPE Security Director simplifies security operations by automating complex security workflows to align them with industry best practices. Enhanced chatbot capabilities enable customers to go beyond basic troubleshooting with step-by-step assistance and on-demand configuration guidance.
Built-in security for higher threat environments
By extending security and resiliency-centric enhancements that are ready for sovereign conditions across HPE's product portfolio, organizations can protect critical workloads, recover faster, and maintain operations under escalating threat conditions:
- Workload and recovery resilience: HPE is enhancing cyber and disaster recovery for virtualized and cloud workloads in HPE Zerto Software with expanded platform support, new recovery runbooks, broader enablement for AI and AI-related workloads (including vGPU), and Microsoft Defender integration. Secure direct access to immutable HPE StoreOnce data for malware scanning and cyber forensics also accelerates true recovery to known clean states.
- Confidential data processing: HPE extends its sovereign security foundation with confidential data processing integrated into HPE Morpheus Software. Using hardware-based trusted execution environments from AMD and Intel and centralized key management with Thales CipherTrust, HPE keeps data encrypted even in transit, helping organizations protect sensitive workloads and meet sovereignty and regulatory requirements in hybrid and air-gapped environments.
- Post-quantum preparedness: To address the anticipated challenge that quantum computing will pose to today’s encryption, HPE has added post-quantum cryptography (PQC)-ready capabilities to Junos OS Evolved and will expand PQC support more broadly to Junos in the summer of 2026. These updates are aligned with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) compliance standards and will include upgraded cryptographic libraries that support FIPS 203/204, FIPS 204-based software signing, and Quantum Buffer for SSH. This update builds on HPE’s broader PQC readiness across the portfolio, including HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers with HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 7.
As organizations continue to embrace superior IT infrastructure, these security solutions are designed to provide comprehensive control, compliance, and protection, even in environments with limited capacity.
Enhanced threat intelligence with HPE Threat Labs
To help organizations stay ahead of rapidly evolving cyber threats, HPE expands HPE Threat Labs , its research-driven threat intelligence group, by integrating additional network telemetry and expertise to deliver real-time insights into AI-based threats. These capabilities are designed to more quickly turn threat intelligence into action by identifying emerging threats, supporting the industry’s transition to self-governing, zero-trust security architectures.
HPE's innovations will be showcased at HPE trade show during the 2026 RSA Conference, March 23–26, in booth #1255, South Hall, Moscone Center.
Availability
- HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls and the new AI governance capabilities for the hybrid mesh firewall will be available in Q2 2026.
- HPE Zerto Software 10 U9 is scheduled to be available in April, and HPE StoreOnce OS 5.2 is available today.
- Confidential data processing in HPE Morpheus Software will be available in Q3 2026.
- New post-quantum cryptography standards in HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO 7) will be available in summer 2026.
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