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The SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) framework is primarily built on two foundational components: SASE Network and SASE Security, both integrated within a cloud-based model. This integration harnesses the cloud’s full potential—scalability, simplicity, and cost-efficiency—applying these advantages to both networking and security. This cloud-centric approach simplifies deployment and consumption, making it suitable for enterprises of varying sizes.
These components are seamlessly blended to deliver a unified, cloud-based infrastructure where networking and security are interdependent, enhancing both functionality and management.
Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a Service is a comprehensive solution designed to deliver performance, agility, simplicity, and security without tradeoffs. It integrates traditionally siloed products like SD-WAN, Next-Gen Firewall, Secure Web Gateway, IDPS, and Observability services into a single-pass architecture and a global private core network. This service-centric, cloud-based technology solution provides network connectivity and enforces security between users, devices, and applications. Aryaka’s approach ensures consistent policy enforcement across hundreds of locations and users, reducing the risk of misconfiguration and security breaches. The platform offers flexible delivery options, allowing organizations to choose from self-managed, co-managed, and Aryaka-managed service delivery, tailored to their unique needs and pace of transformation.
Aryaka OnePASS™ Architecture is a cornerstone of its Unified SASE platform, designed to handle all security and network functions efficiently through a single-pass approach. This architecture allows for comprehensive inspections and processing of data packets without repeated handling, ensuring that each flow is completed in one go. It integrates various SASE functions such as network services, Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW), Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and anti-malware. The benefits of this architecture include consistent policy enforcement across global deployments without degrading user performance, integration of security and network functions, and efficient global scale processing.
Aryaka’s Zero Trust WAN operates over a global private network, enhancing security and performance from the initial to the final mile of connectivity. It connects Aryaka Point of Presence (POP) locations through redundant and dedicated links, offering a private core backbone with specific bandwidth allocations for inter-office traffic. This setup reduces jitter, ensures deterministic throughput and latency, and provides secure, fast, and reliable access to cloud and SaaS applications globally. By leveraging a private backbone, it minimizes the attack surface by avoiding public Internet backbones for inter-POP traffic, thus significantly enhancing security.
Under its Unified SASE as a Service, Aryaka offers a broad array of integrated services including Unified Policy, Network Security, SD-WAN, Application Acceleration, WAN Optimization, and Observability services. Additional offerings include Secure Remote Access, Next-Gen Firewall-Secure Web Gateway, Anti-Malware and IPS, Managed Firewall Services, Last Mile Services, and Professional Services. Aryaka’s customer portal provides monitoring, insights, alerting, and reporting capabilities in a real-time, co-managed portal, allowing customers to choose their preferred service delivery method.
Aryaka delivers its Unified SASE services through a combination of its single-pass architecture and a global private core network. This approach consolidates traditionally separate products like SD-WAN, Next-Gen Firewall, Secure Web Gateway, IDPS, and Observability services into a unified platform. Enterprises can connect to Aryaka’s cloud-connected, software-defined network and security architecture as a service, enabling rapid deployments and instant application of network and security policy changes across the network. Aryaka’s solution is tailored to provide performance, agility, simplicity, and security, offering flexible delivery options to accommodate the unique needs of each organization.
SSE (Secure Services Edge) is a subset of the broader SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) framework, specifically focusing on the security aspects. Defined by Gartner in 2021, SSE combines various security services that can be integrated with network services like SD-WAN to form a comprehensive security solution. Essentially, SSE represents the concentrated security component within the SASE architecture, ensuring robust protection at the network’s edge.
SSE operates at the critical juncture where the enterprise network meets the internet or cloud services, deploying security measures to shield against external threats. The primary components of SSE include:
Aryaka’s implementation of ZTNA within the SASE framework underscores a shift from traditional perimeter-based security models to a more dynamic, zero-trust approach. This model necessitates rigorous verification of all users and devices before they can access network resources or applications, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud. ZTNA ensures that access is securely confined to authorized entities, with all connections encrypted to safeguard against potential security breaches.
By integrating ZTNA with other SASE components like SWG, CASB, and SD-WAN, organizations can establish a robust security architecture. This architecture not only secures access to applications and services regardless of location or device but also aligns with modern cybersecurity practices that prioritize adaptive, identity-based security measures over traditional, perimeter-focused strategies.