• Aryaka announced it formed a strategic partnership with CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Security and Privacy Institute. These are the details.

Aryaka, a leader in fully managed SD-WAN and SASE solutions, today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with CyLab – which is Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Security and Privacy Institute – to research new threat mitigation techniques and innovate solutions for enterprise networking and security.

Launched in 2003, CyLab is Carnegie Mellon University’s public/private collaborative computer security and privacy research institute. With over 100 core and affiliated faculty and 100 graduate students, it is one of the largest cyber security research centers in the United States. And Aryaka’s partnership with CyLab will consist of providing funding and industry expertise to assist research and innovate sophisticated security techniques to address today’s most pressing threat issues.

Aryaka is also sponsoring CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security (FutureEnterprise@CyLab) initiative, a multi-disciplinary approach to making complex security solutions available to all. And the sponsorship will connect Aryaka with students, academics, and other key industry partners to make security more accessible and understandable to end-users.

As a founding sponsor of this initiative, Aryaka will provide support at multiple levels in the program. This ranges from guiding the research topics based on the newest challenges and threats our customers are encountering, providing industry expertise, data sets for learning and building AI models, feedback on the efficacy of various techniques as well as practical experience to the students via mentorship and internships.

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“Aryaka shares the future of enterprise security vision of CyLab. Together we will develop and innovate security techniques to defend against emerging and immediate risks and democratize it via open source to small and large enterprises. With acute skills shortage in cybersecurity, most enterprises are faced with tremendous pressure and risk—when strong tools are available to everyone, we’re all more…