As cloud adoption becomes standard, organizations need a way to secure access to remote resources. This rings especially true as compliance regulators ramp up their requirements, demanding that businesses meet their obligations to keep data secure.
When it comes to secure remote access solutions, few do it better than Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). At its core, SASE helps organizations create a secure cloud network with granular control over resource access privileges. In practice, this proves crucial for multiple compliance requirements.
Here are just a few of the use cases that SASE excels in concerning compliance.
Given today’s disparate workforces and cloud-based resources, secure access is a must, especially for compliance frameworks like PCI and HIPAA. As previously stated, SASE incorporates functionalities like Secure Web Gateways (SWG) that allow teams to create secure remote connections.
Creating these secure tunnels renders user traffic invisible to outside forces, preventing attacks like Man-in-the-Middle or common vulnerabilities like exposed VPNs and public RDP. Not only is this crucial to good cybersecurity posture but also meets and exceeds many compliance requirements.
Regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and others require that organizations have systems in place to protect data always, be it in rest or transit. SASE creates secure tunnels through which data flows between resources and endpoints. This protects data in flight and ensures only authorized users can access it.
A major portion of data privacy and protection is monitoring. By gaining visibility over network activities, organizations can see if anomalous behavior occurs and act accordingly. SASE gives insight into user activity that gives admins the ability to monitor and respond to malicious or otherwise anomalous data behavior.
Consistent, enforced security policies are paramount across all compliance regulations, and having them centralized makes it easier for admins to manage and maintain them. Using SASE, you can control all network access policies from a single window.
The beauty of SASE is that this can be accomplished in several ways. Using content filtering and Secure DNS, organizations can tightly control which websites are accessible by users, eliminating the possibility of accessing malicious or otherwise non-work-related sites on company machines. SASE also incorporates identities into access control, allowing for role and group-based policies for streamlined consistency.
A cornerstone of compliance is an organization’s ability to audit its security activities and demonstrate visibility over systems and events. SASE provides continuous network monitoring with real-time visibility into network traffic and user activities. Besides adherence to compliance, this level of visibility allows for efficient detection and response to potential threats and anomalous behavior within the network.
The capabilities and functionality of SASE solutions make them ideal for improving network security and achieving compliance. And, because they’re entirely cloud-based, you can easily deploy them at scale.
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