If you’re looking for a high-performance SD-WAN service that comes with the broadest choice of security solutions from the most trusted name brands in security, look no further than Masergy’s SASE offering.
A new category of solutions called Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is converging SD-WAN and a swath of security tools into one cloud service from one provider, and Masergy’s latest news announcement reveals the service enhancements that are positioning our company to compete in this emerging market. Here’s a quick look at Masergy’s approach to SASE, the updates we have made, and how we’re leaning into the five core capabilities of SASE, which include:
Before we dig in, it’s important to note a bit of history. Convergence is a concept that is all too familiar to Masergy. For years, we have worked to ensure security is intrinsic to our network services. As a firm believer in the notion that one strategy, one solution, and one dashboard should address both IT domains, we’ve been embedding security tools into our network and cloud platform all along. This has given us a running start at the SASE model. With some back-end tweaks, we’ve already solidified our SASE offering. Here’s what we have done and where we’re going next.
What’s New: Masergy’s Cloud Firewalls, powered by Fortinet, are expanding to every point of presence (POP) within Masergy’s software-defined network. We’ve integrated Fortinet’s FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls at all locations to enable clients with fully managed firewall services all across the globe.
How our Cloud Firewall is differentiated:
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What’s New: Masergy deepened its partnership with Forcepoint, our CASB technology partner, tightly integrating their solution into our software-defined network and cloud platform. This enhancement reduces IT complexity, giving clients the seamless, unified service experience that SASE buyers are looking for.
How our CASB is differentiated:
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What’s New: Masergy has standardized its cloud platform around Fortinet’s best-in-class secure web gateway (SWG) solution, giving clients the advantage of more SASE capabilities from trusted brands.
How our SWG is differentiated:
Learn more about Masergy’s Secure Web Gateway solution
What’s New: In October, Masergy launched it’s Work from Anywhere solutions, which include SD-WAN at Home and SD-WAN On the Go. This means IT leaders can extend all the benefits of their SASE solution and SD-WAN services to their remote workforce–no matter where they are.
How our SD-WAN is differentiated:
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Masergy is on an aggressive path to build out Zero Trust Network Access capabilities with a near-term roadmap that includes single sign on (SSO), authentication, and authorization based on user, device, and location, which enforces highly granular access controls on a need-to-have basis. Rest assured that we will continue to incorporate technologies from leaders in the security industry and seamlessly build in comprehensive services that take more burden off clients’ IT teams.
There’s so much packed into Masergy’s SASE offering that it can be difficult to keep it short and snappy. We like to summarize it all with these key points:
Along with our press release, Masergy has launched a new package of SASE resources. Don’t miss them!
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¹ Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls by Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Jeremy D’Hoinne. November 9, 2020.
² Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers by Craig Lawson, Steve Riley. October 28, 2020.
³ Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure by Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, Naresh Singh. September 23, 2020.
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