05 April 2024

Cloudflare’s SASE simplifies network infrastructure by merging networking and security services into a unified architecture, delivered on the cloud edge.

With the rise of distributed workforces, users need to be able to connect to resources from anywhere in the world, challenging enterprises to provide network access and a secure, straight-line path to the Internet without adopting complex workarounds or increasing latency.

SASE implementation simplifies traditional network architecture by merging network and security services on one global network. Instead of bottlenecking all traffic and users through a single, on-premise access point, SASE allows enterprises to route, inspect, and secure traffic in a single pass at the Internet edge.

Cloudflare is built on cloud-native infrastructure. Its globally distributed edge locations create a network fabric that brings security and performance capabilities as close to end users as possible, helping enterprises reduce latency, mitigate attacks close to the source, and seamlessly apply security controls to user connections.

SASE consolidates and delivers network security services — cloud access security brokers (CASB), secure web gateways (SWG), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), and more — from a unified and large-scale cloud network. Instead of patching together disparate security services from multiple vendors, enterprises can adopt a single SASE architecture to help streamline complex and costly configurations and gain more visibility and control across their entire network infrastructure.