How to Respond to Insider Threats to Your Business’s Data
As experts in IT security and network security solutions, we feel we are well placed to provide this overview outlining the technologies involved in SASE and why you should consider incorporating a SASE strategy to support your organisation’s future aspirations. Read on to learn more about SASE, or to find out how our IT services can enhance your business, feel free to give us a call today on 01202 514444.
Secure Access Service Edge or SASE (pronounced “sassy”) is defined by Gartner as “a security framework prescribing the conversions of security and network connectivity technologies into a single cloud-delivered platform to enable secure and fast cloud transformation”.
Essentially, SASE combines networking and network security to help organisations face the ever-dynamic challenges of digital business transformation, edge computing and workforce mobility.
Whilst SASE consists mostly of previously available technologies that have been around for almost a decade, the entire package consists of:
A virtualised connection that helps your enterprise network expand over large geographies.
Featuring next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities such as web filtering, advanced threat protection (ATP), intrusion prevention system (IPS) and Domain Name System (DNS) security.
Which filters malware and unwanted software and enforces corporate and regulatory company compliance.
Cloud-based security policy enforcement points that inserts enterprise security policies as cloud-based resources are accessed.
A scalable, cloud-native security framework that divides access to networks and systems by authenticating one-to-one connections between users and required resources.
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen a large rise in hybrid and remote working arrangements across a large number of organisations. By adopting a SASE cloud-based solution or strategy, you’ll be able to provide enhanced IT and network security for your employees, regardless of whether they’re working in the office, on client site or remotely.
We would recommend contacting us in the first instance to best understand how SASE should be incorporated as part of your IT and network security strategy going forward. As SASE is not a fully standardised solution, it will greatly depend on your current architecture.
To give you an example: you may look to employ certain SASE technologies now (e.g. SD-WAN and FWaaS) with the aim of implementing the other technologies in the future when your organisation has evolved and grown.
There are a number of benefits to employing a SASE solution to enhance the network security of your organisation’s IT architecture. These include:
By adopting a SASE solution, you will benefit from leveraging one single cloud-native solution (as opposed to paying for the technologies separately from numerous vendors.
This decrease in network complexity will also reduce your IT staff’s workload.
As SASE is cloud-based, WAN infrastructure enables much faster scalability, whilst also minimising and streamlining provisioning times. In fact, SASE allows IT to update a website in a matter of minutes rather than the several weeks of lead time that is normally associated with a traditional WAN.
Through the deployment of FWaaS, you’ll find it so much easier to manage your network security and make any necessary changes much more quickly. This, versus legacy network solutions which require additional security devices and systems to stay up to date. As they’re somewhat outdated, legacy solutions may also struggle to provide the latest security functionality to your business's IT infrastructure.
SASE allows for constant network monitoring to give you a real-time understanding of all inbound and outbound process connections across a single portal or network interface.
Your remote employees will also benefit from SASE as they’ll be able to connect to your business network more reliably and securely.
Through the cloud-based nature of SASE, there are several automated data loss prevention (DLP) processes, including whether sensitive data is in storage, in use or in transit. SASE DLP also calls for user authentication, controlling who has access to information and applications.
Town & Country boasts a team of cyber security experts who are on hand to guide you through your various IT security needs. From antivirus support to SASE and data backups, we can work with you to assess your current IT infrastructure to best understand the network security you require to best protect your business from cyber attacks.
For more information on how we can keep your organisation’s data safe and secure, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our IT security team today on 01202 514444 or leave us a message via our contact form.
