Wide-area network company Aryaka Networks Inc. today announced the inclusion of Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service to its Zero Trust WAN offering to enable enterprises to enforce security policies across offices and remote users more easily.

The additions offer a unified control panel for managing application performance and stability to assist chief information officers in modernizing their infrastructure and simplifying operations by converging networking and security in an all-in-one service.

Aryaka argues that in today’s distributed world where applications are everywhere and employees can be anywhere, a unified secure access service edge or SASE approach provides enterprises the security, connectivity and flexibility they need to adapt to an unpredictable future rapidly.

“Today’s CIO is asked to not only transform the enterprise but do it while battling a relentless cyber threat and all with even less people and resources,” Dennis Monner, chief commercial Officer of Aryaka, explained in a statement. “It’s an incredible challenge that can’t be solved with legacy carrier connectivity and point security products.”

Aryaka’s Secure Web Gateway is a defense for site-to-internet and user-to-internet traffic, providing protection against web and internet-based attacks. Combined with Firewall-as-a-Service, Aryaka’s Zero Trust WAN ensures customers have flexible perimeter security for distributed users, devices and applications. Zero trust refers to a security framework that requires all users inside or outside the organization’s network to be authenticated before getting access.

Benefits include improved patch and update readiness, reduced operational complexity, correlated view across events, reduced vendor portfolio, reduced total cost of ownership and increased capital efficiency.

Aryaka attributes its success to what it says is its focus on simplicity for a cloud-first world. The company meets enterprises wherever they are on this journey, assisting them in moving from legacy architecture to modern, software-defined WAN built for the cloud. The integration of security into this architecture is said to provide unmatched performance while reducing risk from network handoffs, operational complexity, poor patch management and a host of other real-world challenges.

Aryaka was previously in the news in December when it rolled out new managed SD-WAN and SASE offerings. The services bypass the need to work with telecom carriers and the expensive multiprotocol label switching technique for routing internet protocol traffic.

Some of Aryaka’s new offerings come via technology gained from its acquisition of Secucloud GmbH in May 2021. Secucloud was a SASE startup with a firewall-as-a-service offering that provided a secure web gateway with advanced threat protection capabilities.

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