Why has SASE come to be?
The traditional ‘hub and spoke’ network model has fallen into disarray, thanks to the rise of remote working. Not only are more workers tunneling into the network from outside the traditional perimeter, they’re using more SaaS apps than ever before (8 per day on average), on more devices, networks and traffic types.
Are you a network gymnast?
Funneling every connection through one centralized data center has created what Gartner calls “network gymnastics”. It simply no longer makes sense, given very little of what a user needs remains in the corporate data center. Not only that, but this model introduces latency and inhibits secure direct access.
The road to SASE
In order to abide by the SASE framework, every networking & security solution that once lived in a box in the data center, needs to instead to be delivered, as a service to the distributed workforce (at the edge). The traditional bottleneck of tunneling everything through one central on-premise ‘hub’ is therefore alleviated.
SASE in practice means delivering identity-centric network security, as a service, in the cloud. SASE solutions sit between agile users and corporate resources. They dynamically provide low-latency, secure direct access, based on identity.
NetMotion has SASE solutions
SASE encompasses a number of different technologies and solutions, ranging from SD-WAN to VPN. The NetMotion platform demonstrates leadership and capabilities in all solutions called out by Gartner as being ‘core components’ of SASE.
The ideal outcomes of implementing a SASE framework include:
Reduced complexity and costs
Improvements in performance and latency
Increased ease of use and transparency for end users
Simpler IT management and reduced maintenance
Better security
Zero-trust posture guaranteed
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