Howdy, readers.
On this fine Hump Day (and the final prep day for those celebrating All Hallow’s Eve), let’s take a beat to talk about Celona.
Based in Silicon Valley, Celona is an innovator when it comes to private wireless solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things. Celona knows that the Industry 4.0 revolution is well underway, and hard-working teams are continuing to transform how people and machines work together; many are even embracing data-driven operations and adopting zero-touch automation strategies that are powered by Celona’s enterprise-class private wireless. (We’re talking lower-latency, higher-bandwidth connectivity in more places and with fewer access points, providing what the company assures is “five to ten times the coverage, indoors and out.”)
Deployable in mere hours (and at affordable costs, to boot), Celona’s secure 5G LAN system offers greater predictability and performance to automate the manufacturing floor.
“Deploy automated guided vehicles in the warehouse,” Celona suggests, “or deliver high-def video surveillance, everywhere. This is a next-gen promise that conventional wireless simply can’t match.”
The long-story-short of it?
Celona provides ultra-dependable connectivity in distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, oil and gas refineries, mining sites, and at ports and other transportation hubs.
And this week, the company officially debuted Aerloc, a new suite of security capabilities.
Designed to address challenges faced by those securing increasingly digitized IIoT systems, Aerloc provides enhanced security and reliable connectivity without sacrificing agility.
“Traditional IT architectures often fail in industrial settings due to the need to keep data on-premises for low-latency response, the thousands of IoT devices requiring agentless authentication, and the division between IT and OT networks,” the company explained. “Celona tackles these challenges by unifying IT, OT and private 5G into a seamless solution. This convergence enables organizations to securely capture real-time data from IIoT devices so that operational and security data can be immediately analyzed and acted on, including the mitigation of cybersecurity threats.”
Celona Aerloc delivers:
- SIM-based Authentication with Unified Zero Trust Enforcement for IT and OT devices eliminates the need for device-side software or agents. Celona’s open API approach provides native integration with best-in-class security services, such as firewalls, NAC systems and SD-WAN solutions, and is agnostic to their deployment – whether in the cloud, on-prem, or in a hybrid setup. Aerloc also integrates with other security solutions from the likes of Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and Aruba, and Celona states that it will “continue to integrate with other top-tier vendors” through its open API framework to meet evolving enterprise needs.
- Dynamic and Distributed Policy Enforcement integratse with posture assessment tools, IIoT security solutions, and security orchestration automation platforms. Aerloc’s collaborative security architecture enables localized and responsive security policy enforcement at a granular level — down to the individual device or user — and at the very edge of the network to significantly reduce the attack surface.
- Air Gap Between IT and OT Traffic, using Celona MicroSlicing technology. See, IT and OT traffic can be securely segmented both physically and logically over the air, on the LAN and within the shared 5G LAN network. This unique intent-based segmentation of IT and OT traffic ensures the separation of critical operational data from general enterprise traffic to maintain security and performance integrity across both environments.
"Celona Aerloc represents a significant milestone in how industrial networks are secured," said Rajeev Shah, Celona’s co-founder and CEO. "By seamlessly integrating zero trust principles with our enterprise 5G LAN architecture, we empower organizations to confidently migrate mission-critical OT operations to private 5G while maintaining ironclad security and granular control. Aerloc eliminates the traditional trade-off between operational agility and cybersecurity, paving the way for true IT/OT convergence and all the benefits it offers for IIoT.”
Celona Aerloc is now available as part of the Celona 5G LAN solution. For more info, click here.
Edited by
Greg Tavarez
