As businesses continue to evolve digitally, connecting to cloud resources has become inevitable. However, securing your network becomes more complex as you adopt multi-cloud applications and cloud services. With this complexity, having endpoint security and a reliable cloud security strategy is becoming more critical now than ever. The good news is that a solution is available – SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). This blog post will explore what SASE is, what it can do, and its benefits, allowing your company to determine if it’s a fit for your secure network.

Understanding SASE
Secure Access Service Edge brings together software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) and security solutions in a single, highly flexible cloud-native service architecture. SASE delivers security as a cloud service enabling companies to get security goodness from the cloud while providing secure connectivity to users and devices. It’s a comprehensive secure edge solution that reaffirms traffic connections by way of overlay networks and cloud gateways. It uses cloud-native/multi-cloud architecture to seamlessly deliver network security performance and access control services to end users.

What SASE Can Do
SASE offers various security and network services in the cloud. It’s a converged network and security service model in which WAN edge capabilities and security functions are combined, then delivered from a single cloud-supported platform only on a subscription basis. You can enjoy various benefits such as:

  • Secure traffic routing and access control
  • Firewalling, web filtering, malware protection, intrusion detection, and prevention capabilities
  • Better performance, lower cost, and easy scalability
  • Provision and de-provision of network resources faster and more dynamically
  • Centralized management and unified policy enforcement

Benefits of SASE
Enhanced Security: SASE provides a layered approach to security, meaning it accesses its security capabilities from different locations for comprehensive security. It offers micro-segmentation between applications and users providing reliable ways to always verify your network traffic. A unified view and policy-enforcing system make it easy to secure your network.

Scalability: As your network traffic continues to grow at a fast rate, SASE can grow with you with minimal effort. It can adapt and scale the service capacity to your needs, providing predictable costs, easy-to-view bandwidth management, and greater network visibility.

Cost-Effective: By investing in SASE, your company can cut its infrastructure costs associated with securing your network. SASE includes cloud-based pricing, a single subscription service that consolidates network and security functions from various vendors. This translates to less hardware and software repairs and maintenance costs.

Easy Management: SASE enables easy management of your network, from one location, proving a unified view and policy system to ensure consistency in your network.

Conclusion:
As more businesses continue to adopt hybrid working strategies involving cloud services, SASE is becoming critical to network security. The advantages of adopting SASE include improved network performance and scalability, cost-effectiveness, enhanced security, and easy management from one platform. However, to determine whether it’s suitable for your company, it requires thorough and careful planning and consideration