Solving Hybrid Work Pain Points With SD-WAN



As we pass the anniversary of COVID-19, many businesses are pondering when and how workers come back to the office. Some are considering bringing employees back in shifts, while others are planning to leave it up to the employee. Other enterprises are using the model where everyone comes back for two-to-three days a week and the remainder from home. Many return-to-office strategies have been devised, and they typically share one commonality: Hybrid working will become the norm.

As the name suggests, a hybrid workplace consists of employees working in an office or scattered across remote sites, including but not limited to home offices. At the outset of the pandemic, companies went into full panic mode and connected people by any means necessary. Now that the world has settled into work from home, there’s more focus on ensuring workers can be as productive as possible regardless of location and developing a remote access strategy that can scale is key to that.

Virtual private networks (VPNs) of the past are no longer sufficient. VPNs are great for technically-savvy users who require intermittent connectivity, but the technology wasn’t designed for every employee to connect 100% of the time. VPNs might seem simple for people who use them all the time. However, many workers find VPNs intimidating, especially those remote working for the first time due to COVID-19.

Also, VPNs create a backdoor into many organizations and can create security risks. Phishing attacks that comprise workers’ home computers have been on the rise, and malware can enter an organization through a VPN tunnel. Some organizations have tackled the challenge of giving remote workers access to apps using separate wide area network (WAN) infrastructures. But this approach involves many operational complexities, which are avoidable with a software-defined (SD)-WAN deployment.

WAN Optimization:


SmartSecure Private Access uses an Access Point (POP) based service architecture with built-in WAN optimization. In this way, BT can manage many sites and users a long way from Aryaka's global service POPs. Connecting users through POPs from an office or a remote site can rearrange resources like IT bandwidth and accomplish predictable application performance.

Aryaka technology depends on the standards of solid access service edge (SASE), which joins both SD-WAN and SD-WAN components and network security in a single cloud-based service. Companies can begin moving to SASE by leaving the past WAN technology and moving to the first cloud model. SASE guarantees that workers have corporate-level security without the need to deploy physicals gadgets.

With SmartSecure Special Access, companies acquire security as a service that consolidates local or cloud security with existing solutions. Completely managed VPN supports all custom login customers, including Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, and incorporates Security Event Management (SEM) in these customers.

Remote workers would now be able to connect with the same POPs as branch workers through clients. By connecting local requirements to telecommuters, network and security teams can manage hybrid working environments and implement solutions without disturbing work processes. Therefore, it increases productivity for the individuals who work anywhere and have access to applications when required.


Also read: http://lasso.2283332.n4.nabble.com/Reasons-SMBs-are-transitioning-to-SD-WAN-td4646876.html