Simplifying Network Security: Ways SASE Can Benefit Your IT Infrastructure
SASE simplifies your infrastructure by merging multiple-point security solutions into a single cloud-based service. This allows your IT team to interact with fewer vendors and spend less time on maintenance tasks like hardware updates and patches. Plus, centralized visibility makes it easier to identify performance bottlenecks and resolve them quickly. That helps you right-size circuit bandwidth and realize cost savings from your internet providers.
Simplify Network Security
Managing multiple-point security solutions is time-consuming and costly. One of the benefits of SASE is that it simplifies network security by merging functions traditionally delivered in appliances into a single, cloud-native solution that protects all network edges. This reduces the number of vendors and products an organization interacts with, eliminates appliance costs, and dramatically cuts management complexity. SASE integrates SD-WAN, DNS policy enforcement, firewall as a service (FWaaS), secure web gateways, cloud access security brokers and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) into a single network security service. This provides consistent and uniform protection across the entire network, regardless of where users are located or their devices. The architecture also improves application performance by leveraging dynamic routing to optimize traffic flow. This ensures that VOIP, video, collaboration, remote productivity applications and mission-critical apps have the version required to run well.
Finally, the solution provides advanced threat prevention by filtering URLs and DNS queries to block malware-based attacks and thwart data exfiltration. This prevents cyber threats from reaching internal corporate resources.
This cloud-based framework allows IT teams to execute changes and updates quickly. It eliminates the need to spend hours isolating faults and saves IT staff time and money. The solution is easy to scale and provides visibility into all parts of the infrastructure from a single pane of glass, enabling IT teams to quickly see what’s happening with their business-critical networks.
Scale with Flexibility
A true SASE solution goes much further than SD-WAN, delivering tools like Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateways (SWG) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). These security services are built into the networking infrastructure, making it easier for IT staff to establish consistent policies across the network and easily spot irregularities and risks. This cloud-native approach also reduces the complexity of your management platform. SASE is delivered as a single service ready to scale at a moment’s notice, so you can pay for what you need and no more. That’s a big benefit for businesses with limited budgets. The unified SASE solution also makes integrating with your existing security solutions, such as on-premises firewalls and IPS systems, easier. Many organizations retain some of their on-premises security components while gradually shifting to SASE; others opt to unify their solutions through a single management platform. SASE combines the routing innovations of SD-WAN with cloud security to deliver a unified network architecture that’s easy to deploy, manage and troubleshoot, with flexible procurement models including per-user pricing. This approach reduces your IT team’s workload and provides a better user experience for remote workers. It also increases performance by eliminating backhauled traffic flows and optimizing client-to-cloud delays while ensuring reliable and consistent network performance.
Increase Visibility
Managing multiple networking and security tools adds to IT’s management overhead. A cloud-based SASE solution eliminates this challenge by allowing IT to control the service from one centralized interface. This reduces ongoing maintenance costs and improves efficiencies so that IT can focus on higher-priority tasks, like enabling business transformation and growth. A true SASE architecture tightly integrates SD-WAN capabilities with network security functions, such as secure web gateway, CASB and firewall-as-a-service, to create an integrated platform that supports the dynamic needs of remote and hybrid work. The tight integration simplifies the integration and deployment process, lowering IT operational costs. The unified visibility delivered by a SASE solution allows IT to apply consistent policies across all users, regardless of device type or location. The resulting consistency strengthens cybersecurity and improves user experience. Integrating SASE with a comprehensive threat detection and prevention solution delivers advanced threat protection. This enables IT to stop attacks before they happen by using correlated data from enterprises, the Internet and edge agents worldwide. This information allows IT to detect and respond quickly to security incidents and to provide fast, secure access to cloud and Internet apps for both on-premises and remote workers.
Scale Your Security
SASE reduces the number of products, vendors and protocols your team must manage, making it easier to scale when your business expands or shrinks. It can also lower costs by reducing the size of internet connections at data centers, and it improves performance by routing access close to users rather than central points of presence. While traditional network architectures struggle to meet the needs of remote and mobile workers, SASE offers a unified cloud-based security solution that enables secure connectivity anywhere and for any device. It provides access to applications, services and cloud resources by delivering network traffic directly to the user over the Internet, eliminating the need for routing across a data center or network hub. SASE incorporates a wide range of technologies, including SD-WAN, firewall as a service and intrusion prevention systems for cybersecurity. This enables security mechanisms to be deployed closer to the edge for better protection while providing greater performance and resiliency when facing DoS attacks. For networking, SASE combines WAN optimization, content delivery networks, caching and SD-WAN into one platform to improve connection speeds. It can also connect remote sites and offices to central data centers with a single virtual appliance, saving bandwidth and data center costs by replacing costly MPLS and IPsec VPNs.
