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There exists a drive in all of us that embraces innovation to make life easier. For IT leaders, it’s time for true innovation at the remote access edge.
For years, network and security teams have struggled to distribute and manage multiple point-based solutions that don’t effectively integrate. Some of these deliver reliable network access while others address remote access security concerns. At Netskope, we strive to help customers make a clear path toward both simplification and unification. That’s why we’re proud to introduce the industry’s first fully converged secure access service edge (SASE) client with built-in Endpoint SD-WAN and Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE) for remote workforces. This is an unprecedented innovation in how the needs of security and network performance come together, and we’re very excited to provide it to every organization on a digital transformation journey.
Leveraging the same technologies found in Netskope Intelligent SSE and Borderless SD-WAN, Netskope Endpoint SD-WAN and unified SASE client deliver granular and dynamic network performance, visibility, and security capabilities. From a single unified platform, enterprise IT departments can now manage branch offices and individual remote users using a uniform zero trust and network performance policy across the entire corporate infrastructure.
Legacy technologies won’t keep up with a cloud-first world
Traditional technologies, such as remote access VPNs, have served enterprises well for decades. But times are changing, and this is creating serious performance and security gaps that those technologies can’t solve or be retrofit to attempt to solve. Today’s hybrid workforce expects a robust combination of security and performance no matter where end users are working from, and IT operations teams expect to be able to deliver that security and performance. Traditional architecture, however, is often challenged in the following ways:
- Lack of visibility: Understanding precisely where a performance or security issue is occurring helps IT Ops teams to identify and remediate these types of incidents, but a lack of visibility due to the limitations of traditional solutions makes it difficult to quickly identify a root cause. For example, if clients complain of slow performance to a remote application, support teams have no way of verifying whether the problem is related to the user’s endpoint device, local network, internet connection, or any number of other potential sources of application slowdowns.
- Missing optimization capabilities: Traditional network and security solutions do not provide the level of quality of experience (QoE) that’s been available for years within SD-WAN technologies. To provide the necessary levels of QoE for mission-critical traffic, remote access platforms must have the intelligence to accurately identify and prioritize traffic flows and analyze real-time network conditions to perform the appropriate optimizations. A network bottleneck that’s occurring somewhere between an end user and a SaaS-based video conference solution—for example, in widely-used tools such as Zoom—is where traditional solutions falter as they have no way of identifying and remediating that kind of network issue.
- Operational complexities: When employees were initially sent home during the COVID-19 pandemic, IT architects were largely focused on bolstering their ability to provide secure remote access connectivity with little thought