Moving Beyond Fragmented Cloud Security with Unified SASE

Adopting a SASE solution that is unified, flexible and intelligent ensures robust hybrid-work security, more operational efficiency and a superior digital experience.

Moving Beyond Fragmented Cloud Security with Unified SASE

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Over the past two decades, organizations have steadily embraced the cloud as a platform for business applications. This shift accelerated during the pandemic with the broad adoption of remote work. Today, many organizations have endorsed a hybrid approach to the workplace with branch office workers, hybrid employees and on-premises workers leveraging a mix of cloud services and applications, private cloud and the internet.

The combination of a hybrid workplace and a multi-cloud environment has created a fragmented and complex cloud security infrastructure. Traditional security approaches cannot handle this complexity. A unified approach to cloud security is what’s needed to eliminate the silos created by point solutions, simplify day-to-day management and offer fast diagnosis and remediation of problems.

Unified SASE connects users to applications and the web using a unified client. Single-pane-of-glass management ensures consistent network performance and powerful security with built-in intelligence that dynamically adapts to the needs of a hybrid workforce. Adopting a SASE solution that is unified, flexible and intelligent ensures robust hybrid-work security, more operational efficiency and a superior digital experience. It is remarkable that according to Gartner® “By 2027, 45% of new SASE deployments will be based on a single-vendor SASE offering, up from about 20% in 2023.”

Building an Efficient SASE Solution

Today, SASE solutions consolidate a wide variety of networking and security services, including cloud access security broker (CASB), secure web gateway (SWG), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), digital experience monitoring (DEM) and data loss prevention (DLP).

SASE solutions secure a hybrid workforce and multi-cloud workflows and avoid the complexity of traditional security approaches. However, SASE places a substantial burden on administrators who need to master the interfaces of many different tools. Also, the thin edges of the network, including IoT and BYOD, are often unsupported, creating vulnerabilities.

A unified SASE approach addresses these deficiencies, offering consolidated security management from the network edge to the cloud, a variety of deployment options, including on-premises, cloud and hybrid, sophisticated threat detection and remediation using AI, and the incorporation of generative AI to simplify operations.

SASE Must Be Unified
As large enterprises evolve beyond basic connectivity concerns to demand advanced features like automation, edge security and easier-to-use services, the SD-WAN and SASE vendors that meet those demands will also pick up steam. Too often, network and security teams solve issues with seemingly harmless “one off” point solutions. Unfortunately, this approach can undermine a SASE installation.

Examples include deploying a VPN solution for remote access and installing individual point products for each security service edge (SSE) feature, like SWG, CASB and ZTNA. One-off actions increase inefficiency and add to network and security complexity, with the corresponding risk of security misconfigurations and troubleshooting issues, as they lead to inconsistency in corporate security policies and controls and a gap in an organization’s security posture. That is why unification is the solution.

A unified SASE solution, combining Secure SD-WAN and a cloud-delivered SSE from a single vendor, simplifies security management, enhances visibility and streamlines operations across an organization’s entire infrastructure, from the network edge to the cloud, resulting in improved user experience, faster onboarding and reduced costs.

SASE Must Be Flexible
A flexible SASE solution can effectively secure and manage a diverse, distributed network infrastructure by incorporating such features, providing robust support for modern enterprise needs. It also provides adaptable, unified security management across an organization’s entire network infrastructure, regardless of location or device, supporting various deployment scopes and bandwidth requirements to secure users, applications and devices everywhere.

SASE Must Be Intelligent
In today’s threat landscape, reactive security isn’t enough. A modern SASE solution must leverage AI and GenAI to provide proactive, real-time threat detection and mitigation, streamline operations, and enhance overall security posture and operational efficiency across SD-WAN and SSE environments.

Why Fortinet
Fortinet Unified SASE provides Secure SD-WAN and cloud-delivered SSE (FortiSASE), which is powered by one operating system (OS), artificial intelligence (AI) security, one agent, and unified management that simplifies infrastructure and operations. Consistent security across on-premises and remote locations is best for protecting the hybrid workforce.

• Unified: Fortinet has a unique approach powered by a single OS, management console, client and data lake that creates our unified SASE solution that truly integrates SD-WAN and SSE. Fortinet Unified SASE provides all core SASE features, the industry’s most flexible connectivity (including access points and switches, as well as agent and agentless devices) and intelligent AI integrations with unified management, end-to-end digital experience monitoring (DEM) and consistent security policy enforcement with zero trust on-premises and in the cloud.
• Flexible: Fortinet Unified SASE provides the industry’s most adaptable deployment options, featuring native SD-WAN integrations, support for thin edge locations, agent-based and agentless access and flexible point of presence (POP) selection options. This all-encompassing approach ensures a customized fit for various network environments and business requirements.
• Intelligent: AI is fundamental to Fortinet SASE, with all security services powered by FortiGuard Labs AI-driven threat intelligence. FortiGuard provides real-time threat intelligence feeds that continuously update our FortiSASE architecture with the latest information on emerging threats and attack patterns.

Fortinet leverages AI-powered security to deliver complete visibility and streamlined troubleshooting. Integrating the FortiAI GenAI assistant with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer streamlines and accelerates configuration, management and troubleshooting for Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations.

Neurosoft as a Trusted Partner

Neurosoft is a perennial Fortinet Partner with a team of experienced experts capable of delivering the full range of Fortinet solutions and managing complex deployments. To discover a whole new level of networking and security capabilities for your business, we have the best proposal for you. Provide a more robust and secure environment for your hybrid workforce and capitalize on your existing FortiGate investment with a simple upgrade to FortiSASE.

Additionally, you can leverage your already implemented Enterprise Link and Fortinet infrastructure together with the power of Fortinet’s FortiSASE features. This upgrade will elevate you from Enterprise Link -our managed secure SD-WAN offering-  to the heightened security, mobility and enhanced user experience of Enterprise Link 2.0. Focusing on principles of operational development, increased security and simplified architecture, this solution enhances business connectivity, while simultaneously ensuring high data protection during transmission. Thus, it allows businesses and their employees to securely access company information systems regardless of location and connection used.