Integrate IoT Security with Aruba WLAN Controllers
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Integrate IoT Security with Aruba WLAN Controllers
Integrate IoT Security through Cortex XSOAR with Aruba
WLAN controllers.
When you integrate IoT Security with Aruba
wireless LAN controllers, Cortex XSOAR uses XSOAR engines to gather
data from WLAN controllers about wireless access points and their
clients. The data is then shown on the Devices page and Device Details
pages in the IoT Security portal.
XSOAR
engines make an HTTPS connection to the API of each controller they’re
configured to connect to and query them for data about access points
and their wireless clients. The XSOAR engines report the collected
data over HTTPS to Cortex XSOAR, which forwards it to the IoT Security
cloud. You can see the following types of data that Aruba WLAN controllers
collect for wireless clients on the Devices and Device Details pages
in the IoT Security portal.
Data collected for IEEE 802.11
wireless clients (Wi-Fi clients):
- Access point with which the wireless client is currently associated and the length of its connection
- SSID through which the client is associated with the access point
- Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
- Radio signal strength indicator (RSSI)
- Radio band (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz)
- IEEE standard (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax)
- Authentication details (WPA2 PSK, WPA 802.1X, WPA, WEP, open)
Data
collected for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) clients:
- IP address, MAC address, model, and name of the access point with which the BLE client is currently associated
- MAC address of the BLE device
- Vendor of the BLE device
- Bluetooth type (BLE)
- BLE device type (for example, BLE Beacon, BT-Discovery, or BT-Link)
- Hardware type of the BLE device
- Firmware version running on the BLE device
- Duration of the current connection
The
Device Details page only shows fields for which it has data. If
an Aruba WLAN controller provides partial data for a Wi-Fi or BLE
device, then IoT Security shows the data it received and hides the
fields for which it wasn't sent anything.
For Aruba
WLAN controllers to discover BLE devices, the BLE Operation Mode
in the AP system profile must be set for Beaconing.
IoT Security also works with Cortex XSOAR to fetch the following information from
Aruba Central about switches on the network:
- Switch MAC address, IP address, and hostname
- Switch type, model, and firmware version
IoT Security and Cortex XSOAR also fetch the serial number of wireless access points
from Aruba Central.
Integrating with Aruba WLAN controllers requires either a full-featured Cortex XSOAR server
or the purchase and activation of an IoT Security third-party integration add-on license, which comes with a free cohosted Cortex XSOAR instance. The basic
plan includes a license for three integration add-ons, one of which can be used for
this. The advanced plan includes a license for all supported third-party
integrations.