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control to better ensure the organization stays compliant to its regulatory needs of respective verticals, while helping to prevent data loss and extraction, Nair stated. “SASE solutions are built with user-identity awareness as a base principle to provide zero trust network access, independent of whether the user is in an office or remote,” he said. Managing application performance and security for a globally distributed enterprise is a daunting task. It calls for proficiency and expertise in several domains including networking, cloud and security. It may call for the help a managed service provider (MSP). “With the ongoing consolidation of several of the point product solutions into a converged SASE architecture, enterprises may need to invest in refreshing their in-house talents if they are intending to do it themselves in-house,” Nair suggested. “However, the key question for enterprises is whether they want to invest in areas that matter to their core business, or in the day-to-day operations of their IT infrastructure,” he continued. “Most of the small and medium businesses tend to focus investments on their core competencies that makes a difference to their business growth, while leveraging managed service providers who have the expertise and scale of economies to manage their network, security and cloud operations in a reliable and costeffective fashion.” On the other hand, he added, large enterprises that traditionally did it themselves with in-house IT experts are used to enjoying the benefits of agile IT operations including incident response and change management. “These large enterprises are keen to look at managed service providers that can help them reduce the OPEX, while offering options that do not compromise on business agility aspects,” he said. “I can say, market trends are hinting at the success of managed service providers that can deliver on the promise of a cloud native SASE architecture as a fully managed service.” J FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS - Subscriptions to RWS are free to executives working for telecommunications service providers. Simply go to rwsmagazine.com and click on the subscribe link. Fill out the form completely and you will start receiving the magazine within six weeks. ADDRESS CHANGES, RENEWALS and CANCELLATIONS - Go to rwsmagazine.com and click on the subscribe link. For address changes and renewals, simply fill out the form, submit it and your subscription will automatically be renewed with your most current information. To cancel your subscription, go to the “Cancellations” header, click “here” and follow the instructions. CORRESPONDENCE - Send letters to the editor via email to Martin Vilaboy at martin@bekabusinessmedia.com. All other correspondence should be directed to Martin Vilaboy at 10115 E Bell Road, Suite 107 - #517 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260. PRESS RELEASES - RWS magazine welcomes press releases and any other information relating to the sale, marketing and distribution of communications services. Releases should be emailed to Martin Vilaboy at martin@bekabusinessmedia.com. REPRINTS - For high-quality article reprints, minimum of 100 quantity, please contact the publisher at 480-503-0770. ADVERTISING - For a media kit or information about advertising, contact Group Publisher Berge Kaprelian at 480-503-0770, berge@bekabusinessmedia.com. Advertise Index Communication Alliance of Channel Women (www.allianceofchannelwomen.org.) 52 Astound Business Solutions (astoundbusiness.com) 7 Easton Telecom Services (www.eastontelecom.com) 35 Ericsson (#wirelessoffice) 19 First Light (www.firstlightfiber.com) 59 Five9 (www.five9.com) 2 Fusion Connect (fusionconnect.com) 9 Granite Telecommunications (granitenet.com) 29 NHC (nhcgrp.com) Back cover OneStream Networks (www.onestreamnetworks.com) 3 ScerIS (www.sceris.com) 25 Snom (snomamericas.com) 11 Telesystem (www.telesystem.us) 5 Disclaimer: This index is provided as a free ser vice to our advertisers. Every effort is made for accuracy, but we cannot be held liable for any errors or omissions. SASE Features Desired by Enterprises SD-WAN 34% Cloud SWG 30% FWaaS 17% No plans or not familiar with term 10% CASB 8% Source: Aryaka, 2021 58 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com

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