Nadkarni said that without built-in CASB, Aryaka customers were using the company’s cloud connector to connect to third-party security solutions for cloud access control. 

“Now it’s integrated at the network layer,” she explained. “It’s easier to manage in one place, where all the policies are easier to troubleshoot. Because, now when we do our configuration in Aryaka, you can actually see at what point the traffic was either denied or dropped or where the policies are for each one.”

The CASB capabilities allow Aryaka to provide granular access control and visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud application usage. “Because we are the transit network for the customer, anything and everything that the users use, we have full visibility into it,” Nadkarni said.

Testing SASE on non-production traffic

A key challenge for any organization considering SASE is how to test it – no network administrator wants to try out a proof of concept on a production network. Aryaka’s IPX is aimed at that issue.

IPX is a virtual environment where organizations can try out Aryaka capabilities by running traffic between different points across the globe and experiment with different configurations, Nadkarni said. This interactive environment allows potential customers to experience Aryaka’s unified SASE platform without impacting their production traffic.

SASE for AI? Aryaka delivers

Recognizing the growing importance of AI workloads in enterprise environments, Aryaka has introduced AI Perform, a solution designed to optimize network performance for AI applications.