AT&T Business serves up single-vendor SASE with Cisco
Key Highlights
- Integrates AT&T’s global network with Cisco’s security capabilities, including Zero Trust Network Access and firewall-as-a-service.
- Provides a cloud-native architecture ensuring consistent security, optimized performance, and proactive network management.
- Features multi-layer defense, intelligent routing, real-time threat intelligence, and simplified network management in a unified platform.
- Supports diverse business needs, from mid-sized companies to large, distributed global enterprises.
- Enhances security, observability, and connectivity across edge, cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
What is SASE?
SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is a cloud-based network architecture that converges networking and security services like SD-WAN into a unified platform. This approach simplifies network management, enhances security, and provides secure access to resources regardless of user location or device.
AT&T Business has joined forces with Cisco to launch the AT&T Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with Cisco, a cloud-delivered networking and security solution, highlighting the growing adoption of cloud-based services.
The new service combines AT&T’s network expertise with Cisco’s security and networking technologies, with the aim of delivering a unified service that simplifies IT management, strengthens protection against evolving threats, and guarantees dependable connectivity.
AT&T SASE with Cisco is designed to support a diverse set of business types—including mid-sized businesses with multiple branches and commercial enterprises modernizing legacy platforms to highly distributed global enterprises.
Focus on consistency
A key focus of the new product is consistency for enterprises.
AT&T and Cisco emphasize the idea that, unlike traditional multi-vendor solutions that create complexity and security gaps, the new AT&T SASE with Cisco provides a cloud-native architecture that ensures consistent security, optimized application performance, and proactive network management in a single platform.
The solution also includes intelligent zero-trust security, predictive path optimization, and centralized policy enforcement, all of which simplify IT operations and enhance the user experience.
“Today’s businesses require solutions that not only enable seamless connectivity but also provide advanced security to protect their devices and data,” said Shawn Hakl, head of product at AT&T Business. “Our long-standing relationship with Cisco allows us to deliver a unified, cloud-based service that simplifies network management and enhances security for businesses to safely grow and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.”
Multi-element service
As a cloud-native architecture, AT&T SASE with Cisco integrates AT&T’s global network with Cisco’s security capabilities, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), secure web gateway, firewall-as-a-service, and SD-WAN.
AT&T SASE with Cisco features multiple benefits:
- Multilayer defense through robust Secure Service Edge (SSE) deployment.
- Intelligent network routing and optimization powered by SD-WAN.
- Enhanced observability and reporting from the edge to the cloud.
- Automated security workflows and real-time threat intelligence.
- Multi-cloud connectivity for seamless integration across platforms.
- Simplified network management with a single, unified service.
- Advanced security to protect users, devices, and data across the entire network, from the edge to the cloud.
AT&T SASE with Cisco is now available for organizations to combine reliable connectivity with advanced security.
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About the Author
Sean BuckleySean Buckley
Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove.
