Aryaka’s Migration Acceleration Program removes financial and implementation barriers to help organizations realize five key Unified SASE as a Service business benefits faster than ever before

Today, organizations face an increasingly complex IT, security and networking environment. As CISOs strive to deliver more secure network access without compromising performance or availability, they must also balance remote work, hybrid workloads across multi-cloud environments, AI advancements, proliferating security threats, a lack of skilled security resources and much more.

While designing a solution to help empower organizations, we identified four challenges that are pivotal to operational integrity and growth in today’s environment:

1. Increased attack surface and risk
2. Compromised user experience
3. Increased operational complexity
4. Lack of business agility

These four areas (outlined in greater detail below) demand focused attention and action, otherwise organizations will be exposed to avoidable risk and deliver compromised user experiences.

Increased Attack Surface and Risk: The transition towards remote work and hybrid application deployments has significantly expanded the overall attack surface for businesses. With over 50% of employees working in a hybrid model and more than 70% of businesses having been impacted by ransomware attacks, the complexity of securing an organization’s digital footprint has increased exponentially. This expansion provides numerous opportunities for cyber attackers, making the task of securing all of the network and its end points increasingly complex and critical for safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining operational integrity.

Compromised User Experience: As organizations increasingly rely on SaaS and cloud-based applications to drive business processes, a seamless and secure user experience becomes imperative. Traditional networking solutions often fall short in delivering the required performance, leading to latency, connectivity issues, and ultimately, compromised user experience. And often, security solutions serve to add latency or limit access and result in untenable trade-offs between security and performance. This challenge is especially significant in environments with extensive reliance on remote access, where efficient and uninterrupted access to applications is crucial for competitiveness and productivity.

Increased Operational Complexity: The shift to distributed workforces and the broad adoption of public cloud services introduces substantial complexity into network and security management. With projections indicating that more than 70% of organizations will use public cloud services by 2027, navigating these hybrid environments requires sophisticated management strategies and considerable expertise. The shortage of skilled security professionals only makes matters worse, preventing businesses from swiftly addressing emerging threats and efficiently managing their IT infrastructure.

Lack of Business Agility: In today’s fast-evolving market landscape, agility is a cornerstone of competitive advantage. However, the challenges outlined above can hinder an organization’s ability to adapt quickly to market changes and emerging threats. This lack of agility can delay the response to new opportunities and risks, affecting the overall competitiveness and growth potential of the business.

The Aryaka Migration Acceleration Program was launched with all of this in mind to help organizations realize SASE business benefits faster by removing financial and implementation barriers such as legacy license commitments and policy migration. This helps accelerate organizational adoption of Aryaka Unified SASE as a Service as a replacement and/or extension to legacy network security and WAN connectivity solutions. For more details, visit our dedicated program page here.

What makes this program so compelling? Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a Service delivers five key business benefits that directly address the critical challenges outlined above:

1. Reduced network attack surface and risk
2. World-Class SaaS and multi-cloud application performance
3. Improved business and operational agility
4. “as-a-service” flexibility and economics
5. Confidence to succeed; your way on your journey

This new blog series will dive deeply into each one of these five key business benefits. Stay tuned for the first installment which focuses on reducing network attack surface and risk.