Networking and cybersecurity leaders are challenged by their organizations to enable fast, secure ability for employees to work from anywhere, securely leverage the cloud to enable business, all while reducing organizational cost and risk.

Traditional networks were built assuming most users are in the office and a hub-and- spoke network is designed to route traffic back to corporate data centers where applications – and their data – live. This drove the purchase of appliance-based edge security solutions located in those data centers that provide web gateway, firewall, IPS and data protection functionality. The networking team deployed MPLS solutions to route traffic back to the data centers and offered VPN service for the small fraction of traveling employees or salespeople working from home.

Today, applications are moving rapidly to the cloud, leaving a few legacy applications in the data center. Employees work remotely due to travel, formal “work from anywhere”, or hybrid work policies. These business trends make legacy perimeter security, VPNs and MPLS approaches expensive, less effective and obsolete.

Secure access service edge (SASE) solves these problems by consolidating networking and security functions into a single cloud-delivered solution. SASE can be realized as either a multi-vendor offering or a single vendor offering.

Open Systems Managed SASE is a comprehensive, unified and easy-to-use single vendor SASE solution delivered as a Managed Service.

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