For CEOs, CIOs and security experts, pandemic disasters came in two destructive waves. The first wave—the Covid-19 wave of literal life and death and resulting economic mayhem—was shared with everyone else. Many of us have forgotten (or perhaps pushed from our memories) just how scary the earliest days in the pandemic were amid dystopian images of makeshift and mobile morgues in places like Portugal, Spain and New York City, among others. Covid is still with us and remains a threat to segments of our population, but its overall impact is, thankfully, waning.
The same cannot be said for the second wave unleashed during the pandemic, which happened as cybercriminals took advantage of the overnight shift to remote workforce models by businesses large and small. All the new endpoint and edge connections created an expanded attack surface that remains a ripe target for attack today. As companies settle into hybrid work workforce models, the bad guys continue to exploit opportunities in business models with constantly evolving infrastructure, apps, edges and endpoints.
Single-Vendor SASE Solves the Hybrid Security Problem
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) isn’t new to your MSSP—or many of your prospects and customers, for that matter. Its networking and cloud-delivered security convergence is enjoying a long moment in the sun.
The problem with most SASE deployments, though, is they come up short in delivering enterprise-grade security to hybrid work models. In a nutshell, they’re unable to integrate all the tools necessary to simultaneously maintain high security and user experience levels regardless of location. Since hybrid models are here to stay, that’s a problem, and a big one at that.
Single-vendor SASE solves this problem by virtue of built-in compatibility across all network and security components, allowing secure access by remote users to both on-network and off. This approach empowers secure Internet access, private access and SaaS access.
Business outcomes, if powered by the right provider, can include:
- Consistent security posture across the entire attack surface
- Super user experience, even for remote users
- Operational efficiencies of centralized and unified management
And, of course, all the as-a-service benefits apply (e.g., shift from CapEx to OpEx).
Learn More
Fortinet provides a solid overview and data sheet on single-vendor SASE that you can download here.