Delivering Accelerated and Secure Connectivity
With the Power of SD-WAN and SASE
Branch connectivity might seem straightforward, when considering the basic needs of extending WAN connectivity and providing secure access, but trying to do so at scale and in the face of mixed, dynamic application and threat environments is anything but simple. The pace of change in applications and the ever-growing nature of the threat landscape demand careful consideration and accommodation.
From a security perspective, Zero Trust strategies are becoming a focal point for helping to align and tune efforts to protect branches and the enterprises of which they are part. Zero Trust is not the only dimension of a branch security strategy, but it has become an essential pillar.
From an operational performance perspective, branch security must be balanced with network optimizations that can improve and ensure user experience and, by doing so, improve productivity and customer satisfaction. This requires network acceleration and traffic management that can adapt to a mix of cloud, SaaS, and business applications and that can intelligently accommodate specific work activities and behaviors with those applications.
Done successfully, organizations can realize the benefits of a Zero Trust Branch, addressing the combined networking and security needs within a single, integrated branch connectivity solution. Palo Alto Networks has this exact Zero Trust Branch end goal in mind when bringing the best of networking and security technologies together, binding advanced software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) functionality with cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE) that includes Zero Trust capabilities, delivered as Prisma SASE®.