What is SASE?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) brings together networking and security elements to provide effortless and protected connectivity for individuals working from any location.

Why SASE?

The presence of hybrid workforces and multi-cloud environments introduces operational intricacies and potential vulnerabilities to security resilience.

Network complexity is at odds with business agility and IT teams need more dynamic solutions to get fast, flexible connectivity.

Without centralised control over policy, access, and identity, security teams can’t deliver trusted, secure experiences at scale.

Unified SASE solutions provide rich visibility, proactive insight and comprehensive control for seamless IT management.

Network transformation is hard.

53% of senior IT decision makers believe their organisation’s IT environment is more complex than it was two years ago.

Connecting a distributed workforce is even harder.

51% of organisations struggle to connect users to corporate resources.

Resource issues continue to mount.

50% of organisations are lacking sufficient resources to detect and remediate application vulnerabilities quickly.

The Solution?

Cisco+ Secure Connect

Cisco Secure Connect is a comprehensive network connectivity solution offered by Cisco Systems. It is designed to provide secure and reliable connectivity for businesses and organisations across different locations. Cisco Secure Connect combines advanced security features, such as encryption and authentication protocols, with high-performance networking capabilities to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data transmitted over the network.

Finally, a solution that lets you do SASE – your way. Looking to connect remote users? Or perhaps you need branch connectivity? No matter what, we have you covered. Cisco+ Secure Connect empowers hybrid work by delivering two key SASE use cases for customers:

Secure remote worker.

Safely connect remote users to company applications with secure access to the internet, trusted SaaS applications and private applications.

Secure edge.

Securely connect branch locations to company applications and resources across the internet, public cloud and private data centers, and leverage SDWAN fabric for optimised application experiences across locations.

What are the key benefits of a Unified SASE solution?

Secure hybrid workforce.

Enable a secure hybrid workforce with a single solution for consistent and seamless user experience.

Connectivity everywhere

Increase worker productivity with connectivity anywhere and improve application performance.

Simple subscription model

Lower IT spend with a simple subscription model and pay-as-you-grow for SASE at the user’s pace.

Package Options for Cisco+ Secure Connect

Cisco+ Secure Connect is offered in packages that make it easy for customers to choose the right level of protection and coverage for their organizational needs. There are currently two packages: Cisco+ Secure Connect Essentials and Cisco+ Secure Connect Advantage.

The Cisco Security podcast by TD SYNNEX – SASE, the easy way.

In this episode TD SYNNEX’s Connor Hewitt introduces Ed Dickson and Nilesh Halai from Cisco to discuss SASE and Cisco’s answer to how they can help customers and partners understand the methodology as well as some of its changed announced at Cisco live.

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