Automation of Enforcer Agent Installation

As a part of an organizational initiative to move towards a zero-trust model, The proposed study analyses a number of solutions for hosts that are physical or in legacy models to be compatible with the micro-segmentation of endpoint hosts. One of the solutions, that would be considered for testing would be to install the enforcer agents and build over a Palo Alto network solution for physical/virtual servers. Installing the agents on the endpoint hosts for the Linux (RHEL kernel), Red Hat/CentOS and Windows hosts are a bit cumbersome and the success rate is very low. It is not feasible to install it on multiple hosts at the same time. Hence an automated agent installation is used to fix the aforementioned vulnerability. The aim of the work is expected to develop a single-click automation interface that facilitates concurrent agent installation on many hosts. After installation, the resource utilization of the legacy and micro-segmentation agents with their respective policies are compared. The installation success rate was 90–95% based on testing, and resource utilization was adequate.