Cloud & Platform

Secure Access. The perimeter is wherever your people are.

Your team works from everywhere, and your apps live in the cloud. The old model of routing everyone back through a data center is gone. SASE brings security to the connection itself, so access is fast, verified, and safe wherever it starts.

Why SASE

When work moved everywhere, the network perimeter stopped meaning anything. Backhauling remote users through a central firewall is slow, costly, and still leaves gaps. Security has to live at the edge, next to the user.

Secure Access Service Edge converges networking and security into one cloud-delivered layer. Every connection is verified against identity and context, inspected for threats, and routed efficiently to the app, whether that app is in the cloud, in a data center, or on the web. We design, deploy, and run it as a managed service.

The model

One secure edge between people and apps

Every user and device connects through the SASE edge, where identity, policy, and threat inspection are applied before the connection reaches anything.

Who connects
Remote workers
Branch offices
Devices
SASE edgeVerify · inspect · route
What they reach
Cloud apps
Private apps
The web
What is in the edge

The capabilities SASE converges

SASE brings together what used to be separate products into one policy and one connection.

Zero Trust access

Per-application access verified on identity and context, replacing the all-or-nothing VPN.

Secure web gateway

Inspection and filtering of web traffic, blocking threats before they reach the device.

Cloud firewall & CASB

Network protection and SaaS controls delivered from the edge, with data in view.

Before and after

The same login, two architectures

Follow one remote engineer opening one internal app. The difference is everything that happens between the keyboard and the application.

Before · backhauled VPN~140 ms added · broad network access
User
home network
VPN concentrator
regional DC
DC firewall
hairpin
Cloud app
back out again

One credential grants a network position. Lateral movement is a routing table away, and every packet pays the detour.

After · SASE edgedirect path · app-scoped access
User
home network
SASE edge
identity + device posture + inspection
Cloud app
this app only

The user reaches exactly one application, never the network. Every decision is logged with identity, posture, and destination, and feeds the iTDC.

Part of the loop

Where SASE sits in VIGILE

Verify and run

Guard the access, Implement the edge

GuardSecure Access (SASE)Implement

SASE is the Guard and Implement motions applied to access itself. We verify every connection and run the edge, with its detections feeding the same SOC that watches everything else.

See Unified Access Management ›
FAQ

Top 10 questions, frequently asked

No. A VPN gives a connected user broad network access and routes traffic through a central point. SASE verifies every connection per application on identity and context, inspects it for threats, and routes it efficiently from the edge. It is faster, safer, and built for a world where people and apps are everywhere.

No. We design a staged migration, usually starting with the highest-friction or highest-risk access and expanding from there. Legacy and SASE can run side by side during the transition, so there is no risky big-bang cutover.

Closely. SASE makes its access decisions on identity and context, so it works best alongside strong identity controls. We pair it with Unified Access Management so the access decisions at the edge rest on a clean, well-governed identity foundation.

We do, as a managed service. We design and migrate, then operate the edge, manage policy, and tune it as your environment changes. Threat detections from the edge feed the iTDC, so secure access is part of the same operating picture as the rest of your defenses.

Phased over months, not weeks, by design: highest-risk access paths move first, and nothing is cut over until the new path is proven. Most estates see meaningful risk reduction in the first quarter.

It keeps running while migration proceeds, shrinking in scope as user groups move. Decommissioning is the last step, after every dependency is gone.

Through clientless access for scoped applications with posture checks at the edge: contractors reach exactly the apps they need with no network-level access at all.

Every access decision is logged with identity, device posture, and destination, and the telemetry feeds the iTDC so access anomalies become detections.

By user count and sites, with the architecture assessment as the fixed-scope starting point.

Guard owns the access architecture, Implement runs it day to day, and access telemetry feeds Learn.

Secure Access (SASE) datasheetThe edge model, the converged capabilities, the migration path, and the managed service.
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Bring security to the connection

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