Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a security architecture that offers a range of benefits for businesses in 2025. Rather than following a perimeter-based model and securing specific on-prem infrastructure or data centers, SASE is a cloud-based solution delivered at the network edge to provide protection wherever your network requires.
The primary benefits of SASE come from combining network and security functions into a single solution. Integrating security controls and connectivity streamlines network management while delivering unified security policies across all systems, devices, users, and applications.
(regardless of location.)
This provides a framework for utilizing SaaS applications and allowing remote work without compromising security.
Key security components of secure access service edge include:
SASE combines these security capabilities with its networking component, a cloud-based Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN).
SD-WANs deliver reliable, secure connectivity between different locations while also enabling remote workforces. They rely on distributed Points of Presence (PoPs) in strategic locations across the cloud to provide global coverage while reducing latency.
Combining these key components and enforcing security controls regardless of location produces many SASE benefits. The list below highlights 7 of the biggest benefits of SASE that you should know about when considering whether the architecture is right for your business.
The first major benefit of SASE is the enhanced security it provides for modern, distributed networks.
Bringing all of these security capabilities together in a single cloud-delivered platform allows you to implement unified protection for every user and endpoint.
With comprehensive, advanced security capabilities, you can:
This helps eliminate security gaps and vulnerabilities.
Integrating and managing all these security tools from a single platform also improves visibility while improving threat intelligence and behavioral analytics. This allows SASE to better respond to threats in real-time, including:
If an attack gets past initial defenses, enforcing ZTNA prevents lateral movement to limit its impact. ZTNA applies continual authentication to ensure users are who they say they are while also implementing advanced security mechanisms.
These can include multi-factor authentication and dynamic access controls that consider contextual information to identify suspicious requests.
Another aspect of ZTNA SASE architecture that enhances security is network segmentation.
Splitting up your network and enforcing additional security controls as users try to pass between them also limits the impact of data breaches.
With strategically placed cloud-based PoPs, requests can travel significantly shorter distances, reducing network latency. This improves the network performance – faster services and a better user experience.
Using an SD-WAN can also optimize routing.
Identifying the fastest path as users change location or rerouting traffic if high traffic creates a bottleneck at a specific PoP.
Centralizing network and security functions into a single cloud-based solution makes everything visible and controllable from a single interface. IT teams no longer have to configure multiple tools to manage the network.
For instance, configuring different security policies for various SaaS applications or managing siloed security hardware for each site.
This eases the workload for IT teams, reducing operational overhead and the risk of misconfigurations while allowing staff to focus on other tasks. Centralized management also makes compliance and governance simpler.
With visibility from a single platform, you enforce regulations and gather the data to prove compliance.
A cloud-native solution by design, SASE capabilities seamlessly scale as your business grows and its network requirements evolve.
This includes adding new sites and users, developing new applications, or changing cloud providers.
SASE minimizes network hardware requirements with SD-WAN technology, providing connectivity between assets without you needing to consider physical infrastructure like servers and data centers.
This also means less time updating physical hardware and sending out engineers.
By combining functionality into a unified solution, businesses gain comprehensive security and networking capabilities while incurring less hardware and licensing costs.
The nature of SASE is that it replaces multiple point solutions and physical hardware with a cloud-based service for reduced capital expenditure and operational expenditure.
Other cost efficiency benefits of SASE include:
With ZTNA and secure remote access capabilities, SASE allows employees to safely access network resources and data, as well as SaaS applications from any location and device. As remote work continues to be a significant part of business operations, SASE facilitates the practice without compromising security, even allowing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies.
SD-WAN built on a distributed network of PoPs also minimizes latency for remote workers. By connecting to the closest PoP, SASE eliminates the need to route all traffic through a central data center.
SASE is a fairly new security framework, first defined by Gartner in 2019, that enables modern business practices, including utilizing SaaS applications and supporting remote work. But, as a flexible cloud-based solution, it can also adapt to the newest technologies and business models.
A combination of security and networking capabilities, SASE is modular by design.
These tools can be added to or adapted without majorly redesigning the deployment. SASE doesn’t tie you to expensive and inflexible hardware. It remains agile and ready for whatever comes next.
To experience these benefits first-hand, schedule a call with Check Point’s sales team and see Check Point’s SASE in action.
Our team will take you through a demo of Check Point’s SASE.
You will learn all about how our product delivers faster networking and enhanced security compared to the competition.
