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Hararei Solutions

End-to-End Cloud, Cybersecurity & Managed IT Solutions

Hararei is a Value–Added Reseller for leading edge technologies in the security, cloud and data protection domains. We have the skills to integrate Internet Security, Cloud Hosting, SDWAN, and Data Protection solutions into your environment.

Secure Application Services Edge (SASE)

The Secure Application Services Edge (SASE) is the most important development is infrastructure architecture occuring right now. When first defined by Gartner in 2016, the architecture was aspirational, but is now becoming the most important way to deliver applications to users and consumers.

Protect Users And Devices With A Secure Web Gateway

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is the world’s leading Secure Web Gateway (SWG), delivering cloud–native, AI–powered cyberthreat protection and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to the Internet and SaaS apps. Zscaler’s proxy architecture enables full TLS/SSL inspection at scale, with connections brokered between users and applications based on identity, context, and business policies. ZIA is part of the Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE), and all Internet–bound traffic is be sent through the ZTE.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) Sits inline between your company and the Internet, protecting your enterprise from cyberthreats, stopping intellectual property leaks, and ensuring compliance with corporate content and access policies.

ZIA monitors your network and user activity, secures roaming users and mobile devices, and manages all of this globally from a single management console. There is no hardware to buy, no appliances to manage and policy changes can be effected globally across your organization from a single console in minutes.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) can protect your employees from malware (including Ransomware), viruses and other Internet threats, blocking attacks in real time. Zscaler security services scan and filter every byte of your network traffic, including SSL-encrypted sessions , as it passes to and from the Internet.

Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) provides a Secure Service Edge (SSE), which when combined with an SD–WAN product such as Aruba EdgeConnect can provide a complete SASE architecture. It allows secure local breakout for your branch network. SD–WAN makes local breakouts easy. Zscaler makes them secure. Learn more: Network Transformation

Zscaler AI Security, when combined with ZIA, enables confident, secure AI adoption with a solution that offers AI asset management, secure access to AI, and security for enterprise AI apps and infrastructure, without inhibiting innovation.

One advantage of a cloud–delivered security gateway is that it can be delivered very quickly. See Rapid Internet Protection for a discussion on how protection can be enabled very rapidly. One major airline in the United States, responding to an urgent cyber–event deployed Zscaler to the majority of its users (over 60,000 users) over one weekend, and that included planning time!


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Zero Trust Exchange

The Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE) is the core component of the Zscaler Secure Web Gateway. All traffic, including encrypted traffic can be routed through the ZTE for inspection and control


Free, Safe & Confidential Security Preview of Your Own Environment

Not sure if your current Internet secure web gateway is really secure? Conduct a Security Preview now, from within your existing network to show how effective your current controls are.

The Zscaler Security Preview runs in your browser. It does not access any data, introduce malware or change any settings. Click on the button below to begin the Zscaler Security Preview

Security Preview

Zscaler can also help protect IoT (Internet of Things) and OT (Operational Technology) environments, and help to enable Industry 4.0 in industrial environments. Zscaler can allow for secure data exchange in IoT environments such as Smart City and power generation, and help protect legacy OT environments by providing a Zero Trust Exchange between OT and IT systems.

Allow Secure Identified AccessTo Your Private Applications

ZTNA, or Zero Trust Network Access, provides secure, identity-based access to private applications and data for users and devices by verifying their identity and device health before granting temporary, granular access to only the necessary resources, rather than broad network access. It replaces traditional VPNs by creating a "software-defined perimeter" (SDP) for each user and application, significantly reducing the attack surface and improving security for modern, cloud-first organizations.

Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) is a next-generation, non-VPN based solution for secure remote access. The patented Zscaler Private Access solution works by abstracting the private, internal application from the network on which it resides, providing access from authorized users to specific applications via encrypted, per–session microtunnels that are created upon demand.

The end user is never directly connected to the application, nor is the user connected to the network on which the application resides. ZPA instead delivers functionality similar to a forward and a reverse proxy acting together. This ensure that networks and applications cannot be infected or exploited by open network tunnels.

Redefining Private Application Access

  • Access to private applications, whether they are in your Data Center or a private segment of a Cloud Provider, no longer requires access to a public network, or use of a VPN. By hiding the public attack surface, the risk of cyber attack is dramatically decreased, and the possibility of DDOS attacks against private applications is removed.
  • Inside–out connections ensure applications are invisible to unauthorized users and are never exposed to the Internet, preventing DDOS attacks
  • Application segmentation, without network segmentation, connects users to specific applications and limits lateral movement
  • The Internet becomes the new secure network via end–to–end encrypted TLS tunnels

Zscaler is a platform, which means Zero Trust can be combined with other security functions such as Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Application Access, Application Bandwidth Management, and Secure Web Gateway in a single platform. This platform can then be used for management and complicance reporting and security monitoring. For an example of a holistic platform approach to application, see our Zscaler for SAP page.

ZPA

Zero Trust Network Access is one component of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.

What Is SASE

Learn more at: Zero Trust Network Access

Advanced SD-WAN With Integrated Path Conditioning, Packet-By-Packet Steering and Optimization

Traditional WAN architectures were designed for applications running in centralized data centers. Today, enterprise applications are distributed across cloud platforms, SaaS providers, and regional data centers. Backhauling traffic across MPLS networks introduces latency, increases cost, and reduces visibility. Advanced SD-WAN architectures solve this problem by intelligently routing traffic across multiple network transports while maintaining strong security controls and consistent application performance.

Secure Branch Offices

Adopt Multi-Cloud Networking

Exceed Performance Levels

Reduce Costs

Advanced SD-WAN integrates firewalls directly at the branch edge, including IDS/IPS and role-based segmentation. This allows organizations to eliminate standalone branch firewalls while enforcing consistent Zero Trust security policies across all locations.

Advanced SD-WAN platforms simplify connectivity between cloud environments and data centers while maintaining consistent performance and security policies. This allows organizations to deploy, migrate, or balance workloads across multiple cloud providers without redesigning the underlying network.

Advanced SD-WAN platforms continuously monitor latency, packet loss, and jitter across all available network paths. Intelligent traffic steering and WAN optimization technologies ensure applications remain responsive even under changing network conditions.

Reduce WAN costs by supplementing or replacing expensive MPLS circuits with broadband and public internet connectivity. Centralized orchestration and automated provisioning also reduce operational complexity, lowering the time and resources required to manage branch networks.


How Advanced SD-WAN Improves Application Performance

Advanced SD-WAN platforms deliver consistent application performance across any network transport by intelligently monitoring and steering traffic based on real-time network conditions. Capabilities such as dynamic path selection, packet loss mitigation, TCP optimization, and data deduplication allow organizations to maintain reliable performance even when using broadband and internet circuits. By continuously adapting to changing network conditions, advanced SD-WAN ensures that business-critical applications remain responsive whether they are delivered from data centers, cloud platforms, or distributed enterprise environments.

Introducing HPE Aruba EdgeConnect

HPE Aruba EdgeConnect is an advanced SD-WAN platform designed to provide secure, high-performance connectivity across branch offices, data centers, and cloud environments. By creating encrypted virtual network overlays across any available transport, EdgeConnect enables organizations to connect users directly to applications while maintaining consistent security policies and predictable application performance.

EdgeConnect continuously monitors network conditions including latency, packet loss, and jitter, and dynamically steers traffic across the optimal path in real time. Integrated WAN optimization technologies such as packet conditioning, TCP acceleration, and data deduplication further improve application responsiveness across long-distance or high-latency connections.

With centralized orchestration and zero-touch deployment capabilities, Aruba EdgeConnect simplifies network operations while allowing organizations to augment or replace traditional MPLS circuits with broadband and public internet connectivity. The result is a flexible, cost-effective WAN architecture that supports modern multi-cloud application environments.


Secure, Encrypted SD-WAN: With increased snooping on networks, insecure default hardware configurations, and an uncertain chain of custody for international networks, what can an enterprise do to ensure their private data stays private? Learn how Hararei can help to secure your WAN traffic: Secure Overlay Network.

Silver Peak SDWAN

Use A Single Vendor Solution For SD-WAN and Security Service Edge

Enterprise network architectures were designed for a world where applications lived in centralized data centers and users worked from corporate offices. Today, applications are distributed across SaaS platforms, public clouds, and regional data centers, while employees, partners, and contractors access these systems from virtually anywhere. At the same time, organizations must defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats while supporting bandwidth-intensive applications and a growing number of connected devices.

Traditional WAN and security architectures struggle to keep pace with these changes. Backhauling traffic through centralized data centers introduces latency, increases cost, and creates operational complexity, while fragmented security tools make it difficult to enforce consistent policies or maintain visibility across the environment. As a result, many organizations are reevaluating how networking and security should be delivered in a cloud-first world.

By modernizing both WAN and security architectures through SASE, organizations can enable direct, secure access to applications and services across on-premise infrastructure, public cloud environments, and SaaS platforms—regardless of where users or devices are located.

At Hararei, we understand that adopting a modern infrastructure architecture is a strategic journey. Our team helps organizations plan, implement, and operate these cloud-generation networking and security technologies with a structured and pragmatic approach.

What Is SASE

What Is SASE?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) combines an advanced SD-WAN edge deployed at branch locations with a comprehensive, cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) platform that provides integrated networking and security capabilities.


SASE can be delivered through either a unified single-platform solution or a best-of-breed architecture that combines specialized networking and security technologies. Each approach offers distinct advantages. Single-platform solutions can simplify deployment and operations through tighter integration and centralized management, while best-of-breed architectures may provide greater flexibility and allow organizations to select leading capabilities in specific technology domains.

At Hararei, we have been designing, deploying, and operating SASE environments for more than eight years and understand that the right architecture depends on each organization’s operational model, security requirements, and long-term strategy. Our role is to help clients evaluate the available options and implement the approach that best aligns with their business and technical objectives.

The Multi-Cloud Reality

Most enterprises today don't live in a single cloud. Workloads are spread across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — driven by best-of-breed services, data sovereignty, regulatory requirements, mergers, or simply the pace of digital transformation. But while multi-cloud delivers flexibility, it introduces a critical challenge: How do you connect these environments securely, reliably, and cost-effectively?

Native cloud interconnects and point-to-point VPNs are expensive, operationally complex, and difficult to scale. They lack intelligent traffic management, leave security policy fragmented, and can't adapt dynamically to changing application demands. The result is higher costs, degraded performance, and a growing attack surface.

Complex Network

The Multi-Cloud Networking Challenge

Traditional approaches to connecting cloud environments — static VPNs, expensive MPLS extensions, and manual peering — cannot meet the demands of modern, distributed enterprises. Organizations need a smarter, unified fabric that spans all major cloud providers without sacrificing security or performance.

The Hararei Solution: SD-WAN Powered Multi-Cloud Fabric

Hararei brings over 8 years of SASE and SD-WAN deployment experience to solve multi-cloud networking. Leveraging HPE Aruba EdgeConnect — one of the industry's most advanced SASE/SD-WAN platforms — Hararei delivers a secure, automated, and intelligent networking fabric that spans AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premise environments simultaneously.

EdgeConnect's virtual overlay technology abstracts the underlying transport — whether that's internet broadband, cloud provider interconnects, 4G/5G mobile or private circuits — and creates a unified, policy-driven network across all cloud environments.

With real-time insight into network and application health, AI-driven network adaptation and automated fault isolation, users will experience the perfect WAN!. Advanced SD-WAN features can perform packet-by-packet routing to address underlying network brownouts, and TCP mitigation to address high-latency network issues

Key Capabilities

  • Multi-Cloud Fabric: Unified connectivity across AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single management plane
  • Intelligent Traffic Routing: Dynamic path selection based on application performance, cost, and availability
  • End-to-End Security: Full traffic encryption across all inter-cloud links, with IDS/IPS at the branch and cloud edge
  • Cost Optimisation: Replace expensive MPLS and cloud provider premium interconnects with broadband and SD-WAN overlays
  • Rapid Deployment: Automated provisioning of new cloud sites and regions in minutes, not weeks
  • Centralised Observability: Granular visibility into application performance, latency, and traffic flows across all clouds
  • Support Disaster Recovery: Provide protection against supplier risk, location risk and soverign risk Disaster Recovery Scenarios
  • Cloud Migration & Exit: Provide optimised WAN connectivity whether your workloads are moving to, exiting or between Clouds. Provides a cost-effective mechanism to move bulk data
Simple Network

Reference Architecture

Hararei designs inter-cloud SD-WAN architectures tailored to each customer's environment. The following illustrates a typical multi-cloud deployment:

Environment

Architectural Elements

AWS (Primary)

EdgeConnect virtual appliance deployed in AWS VPC.Direct Connect or broadband overlay to Azure, GCP or On-premise environments. Integrates with AWS Transit Gateway to support complex VPC configurations.

Microsoft Azure

EdgeConnect deployed in Azure VNet. Integrated with Azure Virtual WAN or standalone hub model. Policy-consistent with AWS environment.

Google Cloud Platform

EdgeConnect deployed in GCP VPC. Supports Cloud Interconnect augmentation or pure internet overlay. Full mesh or hub-and-spoke topology options.

On-Premise Environments

EdgeConnect deployed in customer environment, Supports virtual or physical appliances. Full mesh or hub-and-spoke topology options. High-availability (HA) options.

Security Integration

Integration with SD-WAN and SSE environments. Local breakout via SD-WAN to trusted applications, direct egress to SSE (e.g. Zscaler) for traffic inspection. Options for on-board SSE with Aruba EdgeConnect. Ingress using ZTNA.

Management

Full connectivity management including routing, traffic optimisation and real-time congestion management using SD-WAN features through a single management application (better than single pane-of-glass with multiple windows)

Business Value

Hararei's multi-cloud networking solution delivers measurable outcomes across cost, performance, and risk dimensions — the three things every technology leader is ultimately accountable for.

Cost Reduction

Replace expensive dedicated cloud interconnects and MPLS links with broadband overlays. Aruba EdgeConnect customers have reported WAN cost reductions exceeding 90% in some cases.

Performance

Intelligent path selection ensures applications always use the optimal route. Consistent, low-latency connectivity between cloud environments regardless of traffic conditions.

Security Posture

Private traffic is encrypted between sites with end-to-end encryption, preventing snooping even by telecom intermediaries. Private traffic is never exposed to the Internet. Ingress/Egress traffic can be integrated with any SSE solution.

Operational Simplicity

Centralised management via Aruba Orchestrator eliminates per-cloud, per-region configuration complexity. Policy changes propagate globally in minutes. Complex policy changes due to changing business requirements can be implemented immediately instead of needing to reconfigure low-level routers individually.

Agility

Spin up new cloud regions or migrate workloads between clouds without re-architecting the network. The SD-WAN fabric can adapt automatically.

Risk Reduction

Consistent security policy across all cloud environments reduces the attack surface and supports compliance with frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR. Detailed fabric-wide reporting provides comprehensive visibility for administrative or regulatory reporting

Why Hararei?

Hararei is not just a reseller — we are a trusted IT advisor with deep, certified expertise in SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud architecture. Our team has delivered complex, large-scale network transformations for enterprises across financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, with deployments spanning Wall Street, the City of London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Mumbai.

  • AWS Consulting Partner with deep multi-cloud architecture experience
  • HPE Aruba authorised partner, certified in EdgeConnect SD-WAN and ClearPass
  • Authorised Zscaler partner with 8+ years of production SASE deployments
  • Level 4 strategic advisory included at no additional cost throughout the contract lifecycle
  • Proven ability to deliver rapid deployments
  • Award-winning SD-WAN deployments in challenging networking environments

Every Hararei engagement includes ongoing Level 4 strategic support: architecture reviews, configuration recommendations, new product updates, and MIS reporting. We stay engaged to ensure you get maximum value from your investment — at no additional charge.

Getting Started: Free Network Connectivity Survey

Every multi-cloud networking journey is unique. Hararei offers a complimentary Multi-Cloud Networking Assessment that evaluates your current environment and delivers a tailored roadmap. The assessment covers:

  • Current state review of cloud connectivity, topology, and costs
  • Identification of performance bottlenecks, security gaps, and cost inefficiencies
  • Target architecture design aligned to your business requirements and cloud strategy
  • Financial analysis including ROI modelling and cost comparison vs. current approach
  • Phased implementation roadmap with clear milestones and success metrics

The assessment is conducted by Hararei's senior architects and is provided as part of our Trusted IT Advisor commitment — at no cost to you.

Ready to Connect Your Clouds?

Contact the Hararei team today to schedule your complimentary Inter-Cloud Networking Assessment. Our experts will help you design a secure, high-performance, and cost-effective multi-cloud fabric tailored to your organisation.


Applying Zero Trust Controls to Unmanaged and IoT Devices

Zscaler is a cloud-delivered security platform that extends Zero Trust protection to IoT and OT environments. While many OT systems have historically remained isolated for security reasons, this limits the ability to adopt Industry 4.0 initiatives such as real-time analytics, automation, and remote operations.

All your IoT/OT devices would essentially sit behind Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange, so you can protect industrial control systems, SCADA systems, factory and manufacturing lines and other critical assets. Zscaler ensures these devices remain secure and compliant, minimizing downtime, attacks and data loss

The Zscaler platform leverages a global Cloud that runs at the edge of your devices for lightweight, fast connections which can scale much faster than any other IoT/OT secure access solution on the market.

Terminology: IT vs. OT vs. IoT vs. IIoT

IT (Information Technology) — Business Technology

  • Computing Infrastructure
  • Software Applications – Email, Slack, Salesforce

OT (Operational Technology) — Technology to support physical processes and machinery

  • Manufacturing: mechanical arms, conveyor belts, assembly lines
  • Oil & Gas: pipelines, pumps, wind farms and solar arrays
  • Utilities: Electricity, Water Treatment

IoT (Internet of Things) — highly distributed, consumer and enterprise internet-connected devices

  • Thermostats, Smart TVs, Badge Readers, Video Cameras
  • Smart Cities

IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) — sensors, instruments and devices connected through the Internet to industrial applications

  • Barcode scanners, temperature sensors, security systems/cameras

What's Needed For Industry 4.0 Transformation

Zero Trust for IOT

Common Issues in IoT and OT

  • Legacy OT systems were not designed with cybersecurity in mind, making them highly vulnerable to modern threats.
  • Limited visibility into OT environments makes it difficult to detect and respond to security incidents.
  • The convergence of IT and OT networks introduces new attack paths, particularly through remote access and interconnected systems.
  • Third-party access and supply chain dependencies increase exposure when security controls are inconsistent or insufficient.
  • Organizational separation between IT and OT teams leads to fragmented security operations and incomplete risk visibility.
IoT Issues

How Do You Currently Address Cybersecurity Concerns in Your IT/IOT/OT Environments?

  • How is data moved between OT and IT systems, and is it good enough to support Industry 4.0 principles?
  • Can data from OT and IOT systems feed directly into your IT systems?
  • Are your OT systems such as PLCs, ICS and SCADA systems patched to current security levels?
  • What will you need to do to enable real-time access to these systems?
  • Will you endanger your IT systems by allowing access to your out-of-date OT systems
  • What controls do you have in place for 3rd parties such as contractors and vendors to access to OT systems?

Zero Trust Solves IIoT and OT Use Cases

Zscaler can help secure OT (Operational Technology) environments by providing a comprehensive security platform that can detect and prevent cyber threats before they reach the OT environment. Zscaler's cloud-based security architecture provides a secure and direct access to the Internet, eliminating the need for backhauling traffic through legacy security devices or appliances. It provided a single pane of glass to manage security across all locations, device and users, and enables seamless security operations.

Zscaler's zero-trust security model ensures that only authorized devices and users can connect to the OT network, reducing the attack surface and preventing unauthorized access. It can also help secure IoT devices and other OT assets, ensuring they are compliant with industry standards and regulations.

Zero Trust for IOT

A zero trust approach is the most effective way to ensure robust ICS and OT security and achieve IEC 62443 compliance with adaptive, context-based application access that doesn’t depend on network access. With an effective zero trust architecture in place, any user can only access the applications and systems they need, with no complex firewall stacks or VPNs required, all while your apps and network stay invisible to the internet.

Zscaler solves IIoT and OT use cases by routing traffic through the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE). This solves for at least 5 differennt Use Cases

  • Privileged Remote Access - Allow 3rd parties to perform remote troubleshooting, monitoring and maintenance
  • Zero Trust access within factory floor - Allow fast and direct access within the factory floor without hairpinning to the Internet
  • Device to Private Application Access - Enable secure communication between OT systems and private applications
  • Secure IIoT & OT Access to the Internet - Enable IIoT, ICS and SCADA ssytems to securely share data with public cloud applications
  • Active Defenses for SCADA - Detect compromised users and limit ransomware threats to OT systems

Safely Connect OT and IOT Environments to IT to Enable Industry 4.0

Modern manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and critical infrastructure environments depend on the secure integration of operational technology (OT) and IoT devices with enterprise IT systems. However, these devices are often unmanaged, unpatchable, and inherently vulnerable. Bridging OT and IT without proper segmentation and inspection dramatically increases risk and expands the attack surface. A security-first architecture enables controlled connectivity, granular policy enforcement, and continuous visibility across all devices—allowing organizations to unlock real-time analytics, automation, predictive maintenance, and digital transformation initiatives without compromising safety or resilience.

From a technical standpoint, secure OT and IoT integration requires identity-aware segmentation, full traffic inspection, and policy enforcement independent of network location. Rather than relying on flat VLAN designs or perimeter firewalls, modern architectures apply zero trust principles to device communications—validating device identity, restricting east-west movement, and limiting access strictly to required applications and services. Continuous monitoring, encrypted DNS, and granular policy controls ensure that unmanaged or legacy devices cannot laterally propagate threats. This approach reduces blast radius, strengthens compliance, and provides the operational visibility required to safely scale connected environments.

From a financial perspective, securely integrating OT and IoT environments protects far more than data — it protects uptime, production capacity, and revenue. Unsegmented device networks increase the likelihood of operational disruption, regulatory penalties, and costly incident response. By enforcing granular segmentation and centralized policy control, organizations reduce the probability and impact of outages while lowering the long-term cost of managing fragmented security tools. A platform-based security architecture also simplifies operations, reduces vendor sprawl, and improves predictability of total cost of ownership, allowing Industry 4.0 initiatives to scale without introducing uncontrolled financial risk.

Zscaler Benefits

  • Hybrid workforce security: Empower your users and external support staff to securely access web apps and cloud services from any location or device, with a smooth user experience.
  • Agentless access for third parties: Extend your secure private app access to vendors, contractors, suppliers, and more with support for unmanaged devices, with no endpoint agent.
  • IIoT and OT connectivity: Provide fast, reliable, and secure remote access to industrial IoT and OT devices to facilitate maintenance and troubleshooting.

Enable Industry 4.0 With Zscaler

A zero trust approach is the most effective way to ensure robust OT security. With an effective zero trust architecture in place, any user—an employee, a contractor, or a third party—can only access the applications and systems they need to do their job, with no complex firewall stacks or VPNs required, all while your apps and network stay invisible to the open internet.

Hararei is a Cloud Generation solutions provider committed to helping clients prepare for, adopt and deploy the latest generation of applications, cybersecurity solutions and IT/Cloud infrastructure. Contact us today for a confidential discussion regarding all your Cloud and Edge requirements, including how to deploy Zero Trust in any environment.

Cloud

The Cloud service model has evolved to the point where IT and business leaders usually ask why applications cannot be delivered on the Cloud. Whether the model is public or private, IaaS, PaaS or SaaS, it is usually cloud first

Use Agile Infrastructure To Deliver Public and Private Applications

More and more companies are embracing the Public Cloud for IaaS/PaaS.

Cloud migrations can range from simple provisioning of a couple of AWS virtual servers, to entire applications with stringent data protection requirements, or to entire enterprises with complicated global privacy and regulatory requirements. Consider the following solutions for your Cloud Journey:

Leveraging AWS best practices, Hararei partners with you to define a multi–phased roadmap for your Cloud Journey:

Multi–phased roadmap for your Cloud Journey

Hey IT, don't fight it! Embrace it! Adopt a Cloud First strategy to support your business’s digital transformation.

Remember, at the end of the day, every CEO (yes, EVERY CEO!!!) only cares about three things:

  1. Top line growth (revenue growth)
  2. Bottom line growth (margin growth)
  3. Reduce/Manage Risk

IT started to embrace public SaaS years ago (SalesForce.com, WebEx, HR/Payroll services, etc.). And now, more and more companies are leveraging IaaS and PaaS in the public cloud too. Why? Simple - their IT leaders realized that the benefits associated with public cloud (time to market, speed, agility, no CapEx, low OpEx, feature rich, flexibility, scalability, elasticity, security, etc.) will help to achieve some if not all of things CEO's care about.

Using Cloud For Cost-Optimized Disaster Recovery

AWS Cloud for Disaster Recovery


Hararei provides a range of cloud-based Disaster Recovery solutions to suit every budget and recovery objective. From simple Backup/Restore solutions to full-scale Active/Active solutions that operate across multiple sites or Clouds, Hararei can help you implement a Disaster Recovery solution that meets your requirements.

Hararei is an AWS Consulting Partner and has the commercial IT experience to properly architect and implement a robust Disaster Recovery strategy

Many companies provide a Disaster Recovery environment to ensure continued operation during natural disasters, political strife, epidemics or other potential disruptions to business. The IT Disaster Recovery Plan is typically part of a wider Business Continuity Programme, and it can be a major expense for any company.

Expenses involved in providing a Disaster Recovery capability can often approach (or even exceed, due to data replication requirements) the cost of the primary IT Production costs, which leads some comapnies to try to save money by reducing the capabilities in the Disaster Recovery environment.

AWS Warm Standby


The good news is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used as part of a strategic IT Disaster Recovery Plan and will usually be lower in cost than existing capabilities, and most likely provide a better time to recovery. We outline 4 different strategies here that can form the basis of an effecient and cost-effective Disaster Recovery plan:

  • Backup/Restore - backup critical data and applications to the Cloud and Restore when there is an event
  • Pilot Light - backup/restore, plus some critical infrastructure already alive in the Cloud
  • Warm Standby - backup/restore, plus a pre-configured infrastructure, but with minimal active infrastructure
  • Multisite - Active/Active infrastructure across traditional Data Centers and Cloud Regions

The actual strategies used depends on recovery time and recovery point (RTO/RPO) requirements and budgets, and will be different for every company.

SaaS-Based Path Management Across All Target Devices

Patch management is the process of remediating software vulnerabilities by sourcing, distributing and applying software updates and is the most important part of a vulnerability management program.

Patching helps to fix security vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications before they are exploited by threat actors. Operating System and Application patching is a vital layer of defense against malware and ransomware attacks.

Action1 is a highly rated, easy to use SaaS application that helps manage patching across a range of endpoints, and is suitable for enterprises large and small.

Manage Patch Updates

Cloud Backups Without Storage Lock-in

MSP360 provides software for backups to the Cloud with limitless point in time restore capabilities, ensuring that even if you are hit with a ransomware attack, you can roll back your user devices to a point prior to the attack

MSP360™ (formerly CloudBerry Lab) is an easy-to-use cloud backup management solution with military-grade encryption.

Customers can choose to provision their own storage using any of the major cloud storage providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Wasabi and others, or Hararei as an AWS Partner can provide AWS storage. Unlike other solutions, the customer is NOT locked into a storage provider.

MSP360 Backup

Key features include:

  • Cloud backups use advanced compression and deduplication techniques to minimize data transfer
  • Backups are encrypted to prevent snooping and compromise of unencrypted data
  • Central visibility on protection status for all your desktops and servers
  • Built–in consistency checks to assure backup completeness.
  • Backup files, folders and/or system images on Windows, Linux, or Mac. Use MSP360™ to also Backup SQLServer and MSExchange.
  • Easy-to-use agentless backup for VMware and Hyper-V virtual environments.
  • MSP360 can also backup Microsoft Office365 and Google G Suite.
  • Restore individual files/folders from file, image, and virtual machine backups
  • Item-level restore from Exchange backup
  • End-user self-service restores
  • Support for cold–storage options for ultra–low cost storage options


Security Management

Security Management remains a critical function for IT departments regardless of where applications are hosted or what the connectivity looks like. Protecting the organization from endpoint to data center requires a holistic approach that crosses multiple technical domains.

Enable AI Innovation Without Exposing Sensitive Data

Generative AI is moving into the enterprise faster than most security and governance frameworks can keep up. Employees are already using AI tools across the business — often over encrypted traffic and outside traditional security controls.

AI can drive productivity, speed decision-making, and improve customer experiences. It can also create a new class of security and compliance risk.

Drawing on real-world experience in highly regulated environments—including financial services, capital markets, and global payroll systems—Hararei can help organizations safely adopt AI by combining Zscaler's cloud-delivered security with practical, policy-driven governance.

A New Class of Security Risks

In practice, most organizations already have AI usage happening today—they just don’t have visibility or control over it.

Without the right controls, organizations may be unable to reliably:

  • Identify which AI platforms employees are using
  • Prevent sensitive data from being submitted to AI tools
  • Enforce acceptable-use policies for AI applications
  • Maintain compliance with data protection obligations from regulators

Blocking AI entirely is not the answer. The goal is to enable AI securely—with visibility, governance, and real-time control.

How Zscaler helps protect AI adoption

Zscaler AI

Zscaler Inspects All Traffic Going To The Internet, Including AI Applications

Visibility into AI usage

AI applications can be identified and categorized across the organization, including generative AI platforms, coding assistants, browser extensions, and AI-enabled SaaS services. This enables security teams to detect shadow AI, understand usage trends, and make informed policy decisions.

Data Loss Prevention for AI prompts

Inline inspection of web and SaaS traffic helps prevent sensitive data from being submitted to AI engines to prevent sensitive data from being submitted. DLP policies can be used to block or alert on customer information, financial data, intellectual property, and regulated information before it leaves the organization.

AI Access and Usage Controls

Organizations can control not only which AI services employees may access, but also how those services are used. Policies can allow approved AI tools, block unsanctioned or high-risk services, and restrict access by role, department, or device posture. Session controls can also limit actions such as uploads, copy/paste, and other risky interactions.

Inline SSL Inspection

Most AI applications operate over encrypted HTTPS. Zscaler decrypts and inspects traffic inline, enabling organizations to inspect prompts, enforce policy, and detect sensitive data exposure in ways that traditional perimeter tools cannot.

CASB and Browser Isolation Controls

Through inline CASB and browser isolation capabilities, Zscaler can enforce granular controls over user interactions within AI and cloud applications. These controls can block copy/paste into prompts, restrict file uploads, prevent downloads of AI-generated files, isolate unsanctioned applications, and enforce restricted sessions for unmanaged devices.

AI Guard for AI-specific Protection

Zscaler Gen AI protection extends beyond app access by inspecting both prompts and responses in real time. It adds AI-specific protections such as prompt inspection, DLP for AI interactions, detection of prompt injection and jailbreak attempts, and content moderation for unsafe or non-compliant output.

These risks are not theoretical. In real environments, organizations are already seeing sensitive data shared with AI platforms, often without malicious intent—simply due to lack of visibility and control.

A practical approach to secure AI enablement

With Zscaler, organizations can move from unmanaged AI adoption to policy-driven AI enablement by:

  • Discovering which AI applications are in use
  • Allowing only approved AI tools and use cases
  • Preventing sensitive data leakage into AI prompts
  • Governing user actions inside AI applications
  • Detecting AI-specific threats in real time
  • Supporting compliance and audit requirements with better visibility and logging

Supporting Data Sovereignty and Global Data Protection Requirements

Data protection regulations require organizations to control how sensitive data is used and shared. Generative AI introduces a new risk — employees can unknowingly submit regulated or confidential data into external AI platforms, often without visibility.

Zscaler helps address this by inspecting prompts, enforcing data protection policies, and restricting AI usage to approved workflows — ensuring AI adoption aligns with security and compliance requirements.

Why Hararei

Hararei brings practical, real-world experience securing sensitive data in complex, regulated environments—including financial services, capital markets, and global enterprise platforms.

We understand that securing AI is not just a technology problem—it is a policy, governance, and operational challenge. Our approach focuses on aligning Zscaler capabilities with how organizations actually use data, applications, and AI in production environments.

From initial visibility into AI usage, to defining enforceable policies, to implementing controls without disrupting the business, Hararei helps organizations move from theoretical AI risk to practical, secure AI enablement.

Secure AI Adoption — Without Slowing The Business

Speak with Hararei to understand how Zscaler can help your organization gain visibility into AI usage, prevent data exposure, and implement practical, enforceable governance.

Endpoint Defense With Predictive Advantage

Prevention is better than a cure.

Arctic Wolf Aurora Endpoint Defense is a next generation end-point security solution for desktops and servers.

Aurora provides continuous threat prevention powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Aurora Zero Trust

Unlike traditional anti-virus products that rely on signatures to detect
threats in the environment, Arctic Wolf Aurora Endpoint Defense:

  • Uses AI, not signatures, to identify and block pre-execution known and unknown malware from running on endpoints
  • Delivers prevention (not just detection) against common and unknown (zero-day) threats without a cloud connection
  • Full protection for both office workers and remote/work-from-home users
  • Continuously protects the endpoint without disrupting the end-user

Aurora's EPP and EDR capabilities are unmatched and provide a Predictive Advantage of over 24 months (i.e., an end-user would have been protected even if they hadn’t updated their AI math model for over two years). Learn more

Protection against ransomware requires a multi-layered approach, with both preventative measures and recoverability capabilities. Learn how Hararei can provide complete protection at Ransomware Protection.

With unmatched effectiveness, minimal system impact, and zero-day prevention, Arctic Wolf Aurora protects endpoints and organizations from compromise.

Managed Detection & Response Solutions

Advanced threat monitoring, analytics, and expert human oversight to identify, investigate, and neutralize cyber threats around the clock.

The Managed Detection and Response (MDR) market is expanding rapidly as organizations seek smarter, faster ways to defend against an ever–evolving cyber threat landscape. With attacks growing in sophistication and an ever–increase shortage of skilled analysts, MDR has become the preferred approach for achieving continuous monitoring, proactive threat hunting, and rapid incident response.

Arctic Wolf MDR

Arctic Wolf’s MDR delivers round-the-clock monitoring, detection, and response across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads. Leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, the service surfaces and prioritizes threats in real time while a dedicated Concierge Security® Team works with your organization to guide containment, remediation, and long-term posture improvement. The result is a true security partnership that boosts visibility, accelerates response, and strengthens resilience against today’s rapidly evolving attacks.

Ensure Secure Access To Your Private Networks With Access Controls

Modern enterprise networks must securely support employees, contractors, guests, and an expanding universe of IoT and BYOD devices connecting across wired, wireless, and VPN environments. Without centralized policy enforcement, organizations quickly lose visibility into who and what is accessing critical systems. Network Access Control (NAC) provides a security framework that authenticates users and devices, evaluates their posture, and enforces policies before granting access to the network.

ClearPass Policy Manager

Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) provides robust network access control with granular role-based policies for authentication, authorization, continuous monitoring and enforcement. Its highly interoperability feature helps customers to leverage their investment in earlier security products.

Aruba ClearPass gives you comprehensive and precise profiling, authentication and authorization for your users and guests, your systems, and devices trying to access your IT resources. It’s a rock–solid, affordable solution to control access to your network

HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager provides role and device–based secure network access control for Internet of Things (IoT), BYOD, corporate devices, as well as employees, contractors, and guests across any multivendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure.

With a built-in context-based policy engine, RADIUS, TACACS+, non-RADIUS enforcement using OnConnect, device profiling, posture assessment, onboarding, and guest access options, ClearPass is unrivaled as a foundation for network security for organizations of any size.

ClearPass Network

Enterprise networks are rarely built on a single vendor’s infrastructure. Aruba ClearPass is designed to operate across heterogeneous environments, integrating with multi-vendor switches, wireless networks, firewalls, and identity providers. By acting as a centralized policy engine, ClearPass enables organizations to enforce consistent authentication, device profiling, and access policies regardless of the underlying network hardware. This allows security teams to maintain uniform access control across existing infrastructure while avoiding costly rip-and-replace network upgrades.

With ClearPass, organizations can deploy wired or wireless using standards-based 802.1X enforcement for secure authentication. ClearPass also supports MAC address authentication for IoT and headless devices that may lack support for 802.1X. For wired environments where RADIUS based authentication cannot be deployed, OnConnect, offers an alternative using SNMP based enforcement.


ClearPass Cloud Authorization

HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass is the only policy platform that centrally enforces all aspects of enterprise-grade access security for any industry. Granular policy enforcement is based on a user’s role, device type and role, authentication method, UEM attributes, device health, traffic patterns, location, and time of day.

Hararei can implement Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager to deliver identity-driven network access control across a multi-vendor infrastructure, enabling precise device profiling, role-based access policies, and continuous monitoring of every connection. The result is a secure, policy-driven infrastructure that ensures only authorized and compliant devices can reach corporate resources while maintaining seamless connectivity for legitimate users.


Aruba ClearPass provides device posture control to ensure endpoints meet defined security standards before network access is granted. Using its OnGuard capability, ClearPass evaluates device health during authentication by checking attributes such as operating system version, antivirus status, firewall configuration, and overall compliance with corporate policies. These checks can be applied across wired, wireless, and VPN connections. If a device fails validation, ClearPass can restrict access, place the device into a remediation network, or apply limited access policies until the issue is resolved. This approach prevents vulnerable or noncompliant endpoints from reaching sensitive resources while maintaining seamless connectivity for trusted devices.

ClearPass Endpoints

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Governance, Risk, and Compliance is an integrated strategy that aligns IT, legal, finance, and operational departments to manage risks, meet regulatory requirements, and ensure company policies support business goals. It helps organizations avoid fragmented, inefficient, and costly operations silos

Streamlined Digital Certificate Lifecycle Management from Issuance to Retirement

Automate certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, and revocation while maintaining visibility and control across your entire environment.

CertiNext simplifies digital certificate lifecycle management across cloud, hybrid, and distributed environments. It provides centralized visibility and automation to ensure certificates are properly issued, monitored, renewed, and governed—reducing operational overhead while maintaining security and compliance.

In complex environments, certificates are often managed across multiple teams and tools, creating gaps in visibility and consistency. CertiNext addresses this by continuously discovering certificates, enforcing standardized policies, and providing proactive alerts before issues arise. Integration with existing infrastructure and automation workflows ensures certificate management remains consistent and scalable.

CertiNext

Key CertiNext Capabilities

  • Centralized visibility of all digital certificates across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments
  • Automated certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, and revocation
  • Proactive alerts and monitoring to prevent certificate expiration and outages
  • Policy-based lifecycle management and enforcement
  • Integration with enterprise PKI, cloud platforms, and DevOps workflows
  • Real-time inventory and reporting for audit and compliance requirements
  • Role-based access control and governance over certificate operations
  • Support for public and private certificate authorities

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