Let’s take a quick dive into what SASE is to first understand how Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) can address two of the main challenges facing IT leaders today.
SASE converges networking and network security into a single, cloud-delivered offering to support the needs of digital business transformation, edge computing, and workforce mobility.
SASE uses a modern security framework to support IT Teams as they navigate todays business and security requirements and the challenges of supporting all user needs. As SASE is a blueprint architecture that converges networking and security services into a single cloud native service, it was the security solution of choice for IVE Group to secure their critical assets and remote workers whilst enabling them to focus ‘skills and energy on clients.
About the IVE group
IVE Group is a leading ASX listed Australian holistic marketing services provider. With success coming from a laser focus on the needs of its customers, including a significant focus on the protection and security of customer information and data.
Paul McMaster IVE Group’s General Manager Group IT, explains that, "Strong security is critical to IVE’s success. Our clients, whether they use our data driven marketing and communications services or our diverse production and digital services, demand the best possible protection for their data and we have led the industry on our security capabilities."
The Challenges IVE faced
IVE historically had very old-school tight controls around network access, other than a handful of essential VPNs and had not allowed any access to the network remotely prior to the challenges bought about by COVID.
Like many other organisations, the COVID-19 pandemic marked a new era into our workforces, with many finding going remote exposed systems to new cyberthreats and attacks. IVE Group was no stranger, with Paul McMaster IVE Group’s General Manager Group IT, stating that they “were extremely challenged with needing to quickly provide a suddenly remote workforce with the ability to work from home”.
Paul added that this prompted them to “rethink our approach to network security and needed our network security solutions to enable us to work efficiently and effectively at all times from any location, rather than get in the way."
The Solution – Implementing SASEAs SASE is a comprehensive framework that protects corporate data through a holistic approach that is made to counter the threats and risks faced by businesses today, it provided IVE with a more dynamic application strategy in the future to allow consistent and compliant security policies across all user types in the organisation.
By ensuring that every device connection or request to access information is verified, the SASE framework enables seamless and secure connectivity to all applications from anywhere anytime.
In doing so, SASE enabled ‘IVE to have a more dynamic application strategy in the future if desired and allows consistent and compliant security policies across all user types in the organisation’ as stated in a recent CIO article.
“As Enablis were already providing us with business-critical networks they were ideally placed to help us deliver a secure modern remote working roadmap. Enablis’ team of experts helped us design and implement a Zero Trust framework that supported our remote access needs without compromising network security. " - Paul McMaster, General Manager Group IT, IVE Group.
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