SASE: 7 Ways Your Business Benefits

Why it is worth reading

Users - and the services they rely on - are everywhere: remote employees, tablets on the shop floor, IoT devices, apps in the cloud. That shift changes what IT infrastructure must deliver: better user experience and lower latency on one side, robust unified security and regulatory compliance at a reasonable cost on the other.

This guide walks through seven concrete ways SASE pays off for the business - from fewer appliances and a single provider for unified management, to identity- and context-aware access for partners, latency-sensitive traffic routing, unified zero-trust security, and a network and security team freed up for the complex issues.

What is inside

1. Business turned inside outUsers, devices and apps are everywhere, and the demands on IT infrastructure have transformed accordingly.
2. Reduces complexity and costsOne provider and fewer appliances instead of cobbling together hardware and software from multiple vendors.
3. New scenarios, performance, experienceIdentity- and context-aware access for partners and contractors, latency-aware traffic routing, and SSO-simplified daily work.
4. Lower overhead, unified zero trustCloud-delivered services scale elastically, while identity- and context-aware policies are applied centrally to all traffic.
5. A more effective network and security teamCentralizing network and security operations with a trusted provider frees staff for the genuinely complex issues.

It allows you to open up possibilities without opening the gates to security breaches.

Who it is for

• IT leaders building the business case for SASE
• Network and security architects consolidating point solutions
• CIOs weighing managed operations against in-house staffing