Enterprise networks are increasingly reliant on cloud-based applications. They use them to run their businesses and support distributed workflows for remote and mobile users. To support the rapid growth of users looking to access these cloud services—whether from the traditional core network, or from new home, branch office, and other remote location edges—organizations have had to rapidly expand the conventional enterprise network.
This hybrid workforce, accessing critical resources from a variety of devices and locations, has redefined the network, and as a result, infrastructure teams have been challenged to manage and secure the resulting expanded attack surface. Secure access service edge (SASE) solutions are designed to converge networking and cloud-delivered security services into a single, integrated package to enable flexible, secure, anytime and anywhere access between all network edges and remote users.
However, SASE solutions must also be able to function as part of the extended network. Cloud-only solutions only address part of the challenge organizations face, which means that SASE must be designed and delivered as part of a larger, converged, and integrated security framework.
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