Built for What’s Next: Architecting Secure, Agile Networks in the AI Era

The problem

The enterprise network is expanding beyond branches and data centers to support hybrid work, multi-cloud environments and an increasingly diverse set of connected devices. End users expect strong security and high performance, but many solutions require trade-offs (i.e., sacrificing speed for security). This approach isn’t sustainable for businesses. Bypassing security for critical applications exposes significant risks and undermines your investment. Organizations need a solution that delivers both security and performance to maintain productivity and seamless user experience.

The solution

The answer is a modern network architecture tuned for low-latency performance delivering on converged networking and security. SASE delivers this through a cloud-based, converged service that brings security to the network edge, close to users, rather than routing traffic through distant stacks. Executing the full network and security stack in a single pass at the edge removes latency and complexity. This requires a purpose-built SASE network with heavy compute for security processing, global coverage, and optimized routing and peering for maximum performance and resilience.

What you will learn

• Network performance and security: Understand the four root causes of latency in the modern environment and how to eliminate them by implementing a complete network and security stack in a single pass at the edge.
• The SASE blueprint: Discover why architecture matters and why public cloud approaches can’t meet high-performance security needs. Learn the benefits of a globally distributed SASE network..
• Full visibility and control: Combine dynamic visibility (DEM) for end-to-end traffic path analysis, including AI/ML automated root cause analysis to achieve proactive optimization and address black swan events or ISP connectivity issues. 
• Evaluation criteria: Check if your SASE/SD-WAN/SSE vendor supports API-based integration, to avoid manually entering policies via CLI. Demand automation, interoperability, and strong SLAs/latency guarantees for critical apps.

Key questions answered 

• How do you design a modern secure network architecture?
• How can I consolidate networking and security tools?
• What is cloud-native network security architecture?
• How does digital experience management improve performance?
• How can full-stack visibility reduce MTTR in IT operations?

Presenters
Joe Skorupa, CXO Advisory, Netskope