Complementing and in some cases overtaking SD-WAN services, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), simplifies wide-area networking and security by delivering both as a cloud service directly to the source of connection as opposed to going thru an enterprise data center.
Call An ExpertTo love something is to understand it. To truly comprehend the benefits of SASE, let’s cover the difference between this new technology VS traditional point solutions.
Point Solutions
These systems, such as SD-WAN, Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Virtual Private Network (VPN), address a specific set of network or security requirements using a cloud platform, physical appliance, and sometimes even a virtual appliance.
SASE
SASE implements a globally distributed cloud-based platform to address network and security requirements. Instead of needing a patchwork of solutions to meet various requirements, these are now handled with a single converged solution on a global private backbone. Cisco, PaloAlto, Fortinet and other firewall manufacturers do NOT have their own global private backbone at this time making Cato Networks our favorite SASE Service Provider to date.
Secure As Fort Knox
SASE builds security features such as URL filtering, anti-malware, IPS, and firewalling directly into the underlying network infrastructure. This means everything from your sites, mobile devices and cloud all receive equal protection.
Reduce Your Overhead
Due to SASE simplifying solutions, in many cases, businesses will need less in terms of infrastructure, which results in lessened costs for you. Additionally, the opposite of how traditional point solutions operate, cost and complexity do not grow at the same rate as the network.
Scalable Like None Other
Similar to what AWS and Azure did for application delivery, SASE offers extremely elastic hyper scalable solutions. Spin sites up and down in a fraction of the time, cutting back on manual labor and making your business more efficient.
If you’re unfamiliar with the technology world, SASE solutions may be confusing, but our experts at Internet Nerdz are here to help. Regardless of your requirements, we will show you how SASE works and even set up a Proof-of-Concept to show you how to get out of business of buying and maintaining firewalls, and so much more…
Contact UsCato
Cato is delivering the world’s first SASE platform, (and has been recognized by Gartner as a “Sample Vendor” in the SASE category of the “Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019” through a globally distributed cloud service that provides enterprise network and security capabilities to all edges. Cato enables IT teams to deliver optimized networking and powerful security to all sites, applications, and users regardless of location. Provisioning new resources is fast and simple with the full range of Cato’s optimization and security capabilities instantly available. With Cato, IT teams are relieved of the grunt work of maintaining the infrastructure. Cato ensures the service is up-to-date and ready to optimize and secure all customer network traffic everywhere. This enables IT to focus precious resources and skills on business-specific requirements. Cato dramatically simplifies the delivery of networking and security to the business. The capabilities you require are built in not bolted on and there is no need to size, scale, or maintain the Cato service. Cato’s converged, cloud-based platform and flexible management options enables significant cost reduction.
McAffe
This unified solution helps stop cloud-native breach attempts previously invisible or native to the corporate network. With industry leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology, McAfee is the only vendor to be awarded all 3 Gartner Peer Insights Customer’s Choice Awards in 2020. MVISION Unified Cloud Edge features and benefits match Gartner’s enterprise benefits of a SASE architecture:
Other Providers
Other SASE providers include: Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Masergy