The Network and Security Challenges of Digital Transformation Your business is going digital. It depends on optimized and secure global access to applications and data, on premises and in the cloud, and on an increasingly hybrid workforce. Rigid network and security architectures built with disjointed point solutions, can’t adapt to emerging business and technical requirements and the evolving threat landscape. The result is lower business agility and increased risk made worse by shortage of resources and scarcity of critical skills as well as the high cost of outsourced support. There must be a better way. Digital business means a cloud-昀椀rst, fast, and agile business, something that is incompatible with legacy telcos and network services. Digital transformation pressures legacy architecture, IT resources because: • MPLS networks are built around a physical datacenter and WAN access. The network must be rearchitected to encompass both WAN and Internet traffic to support the cloud DCs and applications along with big capacity increase. • Centralized (backhauling) security model creates a chokepoint for secure cloud access. Direct secure Internet access at the branch must be enabled while extending full security capabilities to all branches and users. • The legacy WAN doesn’t extend beyond physical locations. Supporting the hybrid workforce to accommodate work from anywhere requires a flexible architecture that is user- and location-centric. • Disjointed solutions increase complexity, IT workload and security risk with fragmented management and expanded attack surface. Increasing agility and improving responsiveness require solution consolidation. And, convergence into the cloud, with self-healing and self-maintaining architecture can help reduce the load on IT. There is no way to escape complexity: either you bear the costs and the business impact, or you pay outsourced service providers. Either way, underlying complexity is the root cause of rigidity and slow responsiveness. Contact Us Ready for Whatever’s Next Cato SASE Cloud Solution Brief 2