Top Benefits of SASE Solution to Your Business
by Sumona Business Intelligence 29 March 2022
SASE boosts the unification of network and security tools within an organization in a single management console. Leveraging cloud-native technology to converge network security and SD-WAN, SASE virtually requires no hardware in functionality.
Its key components include Software as a Service (SaaS), Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Zero Trust Network, Secure Web Gateways (SWG), and Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs).
The SASE architecture presents organizations and the increasing number of remote workers leveraging cloud services, a less expensive, scalable, and convenient SaaS product for network access and security.
Some years back, organizations consumed their security using legacy hardware networks and traditional security frameworks, which has now become insufficient in meeting new security concerns that the SASE architecture has been created to rise to.
As a result of the adoption of cloud services, edge networks, and mobile workforces, the cloud and digital transformation is now reshaping how organizations use network security.
How the SASE Architecture works
To produce a multi-regional security platform not limited by employee locations, SASE merges different components — FWaaS, ZTNA, CASBs, SWG, SaaS with SD-WAN, and endpoint security cloud-delivering networks, and data centers.
Rather than rely on inspection engines in data centers, SASE inspection engines are connected to a nearby Point of Presence (PoP) where remote workers can connect easily. Traffic is delivered to the PoP, where it is inspected and forwarded on the internet or across the central SASE architecture.
So, if you are still considering if SASE is right for you, here are the top benefits of the SASE solutions to your business.
Top Benefits of Your Business’s SASE Solution
1. SASE is More Affordable
Unlike managing and paying for a wide array of security solutions offered by legacy security frameworks and resulting in incoherence in the security setup, maintenance complexity, and the high cost of maintaining a data center, SASE offers less-expensive and easy-to-manage models. And since on-site equipment will be reduced, it also means less CAPEX for a company.
It takes out backhauling in traffic flows data center aggregation, streamlines communication network operation, and optimizes holdups in client-to-cloud activity. All of which help to reduce costs of network and network security.
2. SASE Architecture is Less Complex
SASE is, in fact, not complex in any way compared to traditional network solutions. You don’t have to power, install, upgrade, or ship hardware for company branches or remote locations. Instead, the SASE architecture embodies all the management solutions in one single device, making it less complex for sites.
And having the security features in a unified cloud-based framework makes it easy to manage, control, and implement a steady security procedure across all teams, locations, and systems.
3. SASE is Highly Reliable and Performs Much Better
The network security solutions monitor data flow and assess how the network performs in real-time. As more companies adopt hybrid work systems, SASE will help workers stay connected from any part of the world, with no delays in data transfer.
With different devices having different performance requirements, IT teams can create policies through the SASE model that direct traffic in the most appropriate avenues to the network and fix seasonal traffic fluctuations with a payment-in-real-time model. SASE boosts network performance by securing DIA and removing barriers in the data flow.
4. Zero Trust Network Access
Data breaches are one of the topmost concerns of organizations, as data loss had an explosive rise, especially during the pandemic. Securing data from loss, also known as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), is one of SASE’s key essence.
Zero Trust heightens cybersecurity by ensuring that every access to resources given to devices and users has undergone checks and validations. As a cloud-based architecture, SASE builds the bridge for users, regardless of their locations, to meet network security, but with continuous assessment of users’ and devices’ identity and context.
5. Multiple Security Solutions Incorporated
SASE has integrated security solutions and routing in its framework. It is not restricted in its security components — users can integrate SWG, CASB, SD-WAN, FWaaS, and ZTNA to improve network and security.
Enterprise traffic is better encrypted, secure, and sufficiently routed when integrated with routing.
Conclusion
As a single-service cloud-delivering architecture, SASE embodies a myriad of technologies and security solutions in its global network service for use from any location around the globe. It directs its security focus more on user identity with its Zero Trust features rather than traffic-flow-centric.
SASE presents organizations with a plethora of benefits, including consolidation security and network features traditionally distributed in point products and other benefits already enlisted here.
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