SASE, also known as Secure Access Service Edge, is a cyber security network that manages to combine WAN and security system into a single cloud-based system. SASE provides security service for all network applications as well as user connection. It can connect to multiple clouds using internet connections, thus providing a scalable solution for growing businesses. The system delivers data directly to the connection source, eliminating the need for an enterprise data center.

So what benefits does SASE provide us in our business?

Cost Reduction

With SASE, businesses can offer more services and technologies through a single service provider instead of two or more, thus reducing the cost of device and unnecessary network complexity.

Reducing network complexity means reducing the workload of IT staff. Therefore, SASE significantly reduces IT staffing costs while providing continuous coverage for network performance monitoring and security threat monitoring and response. SASE will also significantly reduce the operational load, as it does not require investment in new hardware and software.

WAN Flexibility and IT Agility

SASE provides great flexibility within the WAN infrastructure. While traditional solutions require a lot of time and resources to scale up and down, a cloud-based SASE solution minimizes the IT burden, making procurement processes as easy as possible.

Using SASE, IT can get a site online in minutes instead of weeks as on a traditional WAN. It also means less physical hardware need, less downtime and fewer additional software licenses. With these enhanced efficiencies, IT can assign staff to higher priority tasks such as security and network monitoring.

Increased Security

SASE improves security in a variety of ways. First, you can block or restrict access to certain data by applying data protection methods. SASE can also make your network fully visible. In addition to all this, SASE can successfully fulfill its task of securely connecting IoT devices, which normally have a minimum of security.

Improving Network Performance

SASE's continuous network monitoring reveals the quality and performance of all connections, including virtual cloud environments and those in the data center. SASE paints a real-time picture of all inbound and outbound connections on a single portal or network interface.

Greater Transparency and Visibility

Network risk assessment can be an extremely complex and ongoing process. The environment will constantly change as connections are initiated and disconnected. What organizations need to do here is to try to understand and solve the interactions of their users, devices, applications and services, thereby minimizing the risk. SASE also comes into play here and gathers a multitude of functions in a single point, thus providing network and security transparency. This transparency is a very important detail for organizations as it will reduce the number of software agents needed and provide consistent network visibility.

As a result, data is dispersed beyond a local data center as cloud services and remote work are becoming more common. For this reason, it has become a mandatory situation for companies to secure their data in every environment. SASE offers an extremely efficient and easy way to overcome this security issue. With its simplification of WAN deployment and the solid security measures it provides, SASE is a very important solution for all companies in this period.