HPE’s AI-native approach to proactively tackling cyber threats
By Clarence Reynolds
Mar 4, 2026
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Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:01):
I'm Clarence Reynolds at MWC26. Network threats are growing more distributed, encrypted, and AI enabled, putting pressure on operators to move beyond traditional perimeter defensive. Steve Jakes from HPE joins us to explore how AI native network security is evolving to meet these challenges. Steve, thanks for being with us today. Thank you. So what are some of the trends happening in security and network security?
Steven Jacques, HPE (00:26):
So probably the key trend for IT security professionals is around really the increased distribution of the network, typically what we call network sprawl. So we have many more ... So when it comes to clients, workers, we see a lot of homeworking, remote working, working from coffee shops. Of course, COVID facilitated a lot of that. Still the traditional office workers. And the data and applications they're accessing as well. They're in a lot of disparate places as well. So we have them in the traditional data centers, co-located data centers, and now workloads applications in the public cloud. So when we take that problem of this sprawl element, and then we layer in s
I'm Clarence Reynolds at MWC26. Network threats are growing more distributed, encrypted, and AI enabled, putting pressure on operators to move beyond traditional perimeter defensive. Steve Jakes from HPE joins us to explore how AI native network security is evolving to meet these challenges. Steve, thanks for being with us today. Thank you. So what are some of the trends happening in security and network security?
Steven Jacques, HPE (00:26):
So probably the key trend for IT security professionals is around really the increased distribution of the network, typically what we call network sprawl. So we have many more ... So when it comes to clients, workers, we see a lot of homeworking, remote working, working from coffee shops. Of course, COVID facilitated a lot of that. Still the traditional office workers. And the data and applications they're accessing as well. They're in a lot of disparate places as well. So we have them in the traditional data centers, co-located data centers, and now workloads applications in the public cloud. So when we take that problem of this sprawl element, and then we layer in s
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Steven Jacques, Consulting SE, HPE
Steven Jacques of HPE discusses the trends shaping network security today and the cyber challenges they create. He explains how HPE addresses these risks with an AI-native approach, the core components of the solution, and how operators can scale a proactive cybersecurity posture to identify and close vulnerabilities before they become threats.
Recorded March 2026
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