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3 Ways To Jump-Start Your Journey To SD-WAN, SSE, and SASE

CIO, Tuesday, May 16,2023

IT departments must now take steps to embrace SASE as traditional network architectures were never designed for the cloud.

For decades, organizations have relied on traditional architecture to secure their network based on firewalls and other perimeter defenses. As organizations massively moved their workloads to the cloud, users are now accessing sensitive data in the cloud through unsecured links, outside of the corporate network perimeter and from any device. This trend has accelerated as hybrid working has become the new normal.

Traditional architectures were centered around a perimeter-based security model, with the data center as the central hub for all network traffic. This architecture forced IT departments to backhaul traffic to the data center for security reasons, significantly impacting cloud application performance.

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