SASE brings your networking and security together, whether as a single platform or the right mix of technologies. Edge7 Networks is the glue that designs, connects, and manages both, so it all runs as one and the decisions are made with full context.
Your users connect from home networks, hotel WiFi, client sites, and branch offices. Your applications are split across on-premises data centres, Azure, AWS, and a growing list of SaaS platforms.
But many organisations are still routing that traffic back through headquarters, through a VPN concentrator, through a perimeter firewall, and then out to the internet. The same architecture that made sense when everyone sat behind the same network boundary.
The perimeter has dissolved. Security needs to follow the user, not wait for them to connect to the corporate network.
All traffic routed through HQ. Users queuing for bandwidth. Cloud applications taking the slowest possible path to reach users who are already on the internet.
Office users get full protection. Remote users get a VPN and hope. Policies differ by location. Exceptions accumulate. Gaps become attack vectors.
Every new SaaS application, every new location, every new group of remote users adds visibility gaps. Shadow IT grows because the perimeter model cannot see what is outside it.
Adding capacity means bigger hardware at HQ. Adding locations means more tunnels. The architecture was designed for 50 office users, not 500 distributed ones.
SASE replaces a stack of separate appliances and consoles with one managed architecture. The SD-WAN connectivity layer and the cloud security controls are brought together and run as one, not two projects owned by two teams.
Fewer integration gaps. One set of decisions. One place the whole picture is understood.
ZTNA replaces blanket VPN trust. Identity, device posture, and context are verified before access is granted to a specific application, and checked continuously.
A compromised credential no longer opens the whole network.
The same access rules, threat protection, web filtering, and data controls follow every user. Office, branch, home, mobile.
No policy drift between sites. No exceptions that quietly become gaps.
No more backhauling every connection through headquarters for inspection. Security is applied at the edge, close to the user, so cloud and SaaS traffic goes direct.
Latency drops. Performance and protection stop competing.
Edge7 Networks designs and operates both layers. Your team does not add another console to their morning.
Configuration, monitoring, changes, and reporting across networking and security, handled together.
Bringing networking and security into one managed architecture pays off across performance, protection, cost, and the day-to-day work of running it.
See every environment in one place. Data centres, headquarters, branch and remote sites, and public and private clouds. Every user, application, and flow in a single view rather than a dozen separate tools.
Traffic is classified at the application layer, so you get clear visibility into how applications are used and finer control over who reaches what. No more mapping ports to applications to work out what is happening.
Monitoring and reporting sit in one place, so networking and security events can be correlated together. Troubleshooting is quicker and incident response is faster because the whole picture is in one view.
Moving networking and security operations to the cloud removes much of the day-to-day complexity and cost of maintaining multiple point products.
Data protection policies are applied consistently across every edge location, closing the blind spots and policy gaps that appear when each site is protected differently.
Extending your networking and security stack to every location becomes more cost-effective, and long-term administrative and operational costs come down.
Single-pane-of-glass management lowers the admin burden, and less time goes into training and retaining separate networking and security specialists.
Combining networking and security functions into one cloud-delivered service removes much of the integration work between products from different vendors.
SD-WAN capabilities such as load balancing, link aggregation, and failover keep performance high and connections reliable across every link.
Digital experience monitoring tunes performance across locations and improves the day-to-day experience for users, with no extra software or hardware to install.
SASE is not a single product you switch on. It is an architecture that brings your SD-WAN networking layer together with cloud security controls like FWaaS, CASB, ZTNA, and Cloud SWG. It works best when those pieces are designed around how your traffic, users, and applications actually behave.
That is where Edge7 Networks comes in. Whether SASE arrives as a single platform or the right mix of technologies, we are the glue. We design it around how traffic moves today, connect the pieces, and manage them as one. Not a reference diagram imposed on an environment it was never built for.
Both layers, one team. The engineers who design your connectivity design your security. Every decision is made with full context, and run by the people who made it.
Three things that make managed SSE from Edge7 Networks different from enabling a platform and hoping for the best.
The engineers who design your secure access architecture are the same people who support it. They learn your environment, your users, and your risk profile. When something needs adjusting, they already understand the context.
Edge7 Networks grew from networking into security because the two were always connected. SASE is not a new direction for us. It is how we already work, with specialist depth on both sides rather than one bolted onto the other.
SSE sits alongside SOC/SIEM, MDR, EDR, email security, firewall, identity, and incident response. When you take multiple services, the same team has visibility across all of them. Faster detection, fewer gaps between tools.
Edge7 Networks has been designing enterprise networks since 2018. When we deploy SSE, the policies are informed by how traffic actually moves through your environment. That context is what makes the difference between a platform that works on paper and one that works in practice.
SSE is the security layer. SD-WAN is the networking layer. Together, they form SASE. If your organisation needs application-aware connectivity alongside secure access, Edge7 Networks delivers both under one partner. Networking and security decisions made with full context.
Common questions about SSE, SASE, Zero Trust, and managed cloud security.
Whether you are converging networking and security for the first time, replacing a legacy WAN and VPN together, or adding the second layer to something you already run. No pressure. A practical conversation with engineers who work across both sides.