Cybersecurity SASE

Improve cybersecurity with SASE environments

As more organizations move to hybrid cloud networks and hybrid workforces, it has become more difficult to provide fast and secure remote access to IT networks and resources. As a result, IT teams are increasingly turning to secure access service edge (SASE) technology to ensure fast, reliable connections from any location. To improve cybersecurity, SASE converges networking and security functions to eliminate security gaps, reduce costs, and simplify network management.

When choosing cybersecurity and SASE providers, adopting a single solution is essential to minimizing complexity and maximizing control. That’s why Spectrum Enterprise now offers Cloud Security with Cisco+ Secure Connect, a fully managed SASE solution that enables organizations to implement security priorities across every device and every cloud. With a centralized and streamlined platform, Cloud Security simplifies IT operations while strengthening protection and providing users with secure, direct access to cloud applications.
 

Modern network and cybersecurity challenges

To improve networking and cybersecurity, SASE frameworks overcome several critical challenges that IT teams experience as they work to ensure fast connections and cloud data security in hybrid remote solutions. 

• Legacy security solutions can’t protect modern environments. Legacy technologies designed to defend a traditional network perimeter are unable to protect hybrid networks, where IT assets reside in data centers around the world.
• Users work everywhere and connect with any device. With the shift to a hybrid workforce, IT teams must provide users with fast, secure access to the network and IT resources, no matter where they connect from or what device they are using.
• Security policy enforcement is inadequate. In a traditional network, traffic is routed through a central hub to inspect it for threats and enforce security policies. But as users and IT assets are no longer contained within a tight perimeter, backhauling traffic through a central data center for policy enforcement results in unsustainable latency and cost.
• The size of the attack surface is growing. Highly distributed networks represent a larger attack surface that’s more challenging to monitor and more difficult to manage, thanks to rapidly changing security and regulatory requirements. 

To solve these challenges and maintain cybersecurity, SASE environments focus on authenticating identities of users, devices and applications rather than simply inspecting traffic. This policy-based, identity-centric framework decentralizes security and eliminates the need to backhaul traffic to a central location to enforce policies around cybersecurity. SASE also increases network performance by reducing complexity and simplifying management for IT teams.
 

Cloud Security with Cisco+ Secure Connect

Powered by Cisco+ Secure Connect, Spectrum Enterprise Cloud Security enables remote users to securely and directly access cloud SaaS applications and the internet without relying on traditional or premises-based solutions for cybersecurity. SASE technologies that are integrated within this solution allow IT to enforce security measures and device postures for corporate and personal devices, simplifying security without compromising performance. A single portal provides IT teams with visibility across users, devices, network activity and potential threats.

Cloud Security improves cybersecurity with SaaS technologies such as:

• ZTNA: Enforce Zero Trust access to networks and clouds with authorization based on end-user location, group, device security health, and other criteria.
• Cloud access security broker (CASB): Detect all cloud applications in use across the organization to expose shadow IT.
• Cloud firewall: Block unwanted traffic using IP, port and protocol rules applied to every network device.
• Secure web gateway (SWG): Enforce acceptable use policies and stop malware and advanced threats with a cloud-based proxy.
• DNS-layer security: Block customers or employees from accessing malicious websites and systems.
   

Cybersecurity and SASE benefits

Spectrum Enterprise Cloud Security provides significant benefits for IT teams managing networks and cybersecurity with SASE.

• Easier management. As a fully managed service that includes co-management capabilities, Cloud Security lightens the lift for IT teams when it comes to managing, monitoring and configuring granular security policies.
• Greater visibility. Cloud Security enables full visibility into network activity and threats in real time. IT teams can see who is on the network, what devices they’re using, the applications they’re accessing, and any suspicious behavior.
• Improved performance. Users have direct access to cloud applications without compromising security.
• Tighter security. IT teams can control access and monitor usage for all users, including those connecting on unmanaged personal devices.
• Support for remote workforces. Cloud Security makes it easy to apply and manage firewall and malware protection for employees, wherever they need to work.
• Easy integration. Cloud Security simplifies enterprise network integration by combining the multiple cybersecurity/SASE solutions on a single platform.
   

Why choose Spectrum Enterprise for cybersecurity and SASE?

Spectrum Enterprise provides scalable, fiber technology solutions for America’s largest businesses. Built on a wholly owned fiber network that’s engineered for growth, our internet and networking solutions deliver exceptional dependability and reliability. Our portfolio also includes voice and TV technologies as well as managed services that provide IT teams with invaluable expertise and hands-on help.

With Spectrum Enterprise, customers can count on:

• Greater reliability and reach. Spanning over 245,000 route-miles nationwide, our private fiber network offers an an end-to-end service-level agreement (SLA)  with a 100 percent uptime guarantee¹.
• Flexible, scalable technology. Our solutions are designed to adapt and grow to meet our customers’ new opportunities and rapidly evolving business requirements.
• A trusted partner. Our dedicated teams bring a tireless work ethic, unmatched commitment and hands-on local support to every customer engagement.
   

FAQs

What’s SASE?

SASE, or secure access service edge, is a cloud-based model for managing security and remote access in highly distributed networks. The SASE framework combines networking and security functions to simplify management, reduce costs and make security functions available wherever users and devices are connecting to the network.

How do organizations improve cybersecurity with SASE?

To enhance cybersecurity, SASE makes identity-centric security functions available as services throughout the network. This improves network performance and reduces latency by eliminating the need to backhaul traffic to a central data center to apply policies around cybersecurity. SASE technologies like multifactor authentication (MFA) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) ensure that only authorized users can access network resources, while secure web gateways (SWGs), cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and firewall as a service (FWaaS) protect organizations against a wide range of threats.

What are the benefits of SASE for cybersecurity and network performance?

By eliminating latency in network connections and providing cloud-based technologies for cybersecurity, SASE improves user experiences while tightening security and simplifying the task of managing policies across a highly distributed network. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is a central part of the SASE framework. SD-WAN benefits organizations by routing traffic over multiple, low-cost types of connections to optimize speed, bandwidth, reliability, and cost.

¹100% uptime SLA guarantee applies only to Dedicated Fiber Internet, Secure Dedicated Fiber Internet, Ethernet Services, Cloud Connect and Enterprise Trunking.