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Securing the Ever-Expanding Perimeter of a Hybrid Organization Establishing adequate cyber security measures, while meeting budgetary constraints often seems like an impossible task, especially for small-to-medium-sized enterprises. A full 35% of firms in a recent survey by Analysys Mason said they had inadequate security budgets to support effective cyber-security capabilities.

It’s not hard to see why: Business networks must now support a hybrid workforce with remote and in-office teams who are connecting to a plethora of resources such as cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and on-prem servers.

The easily defined corporate perimeter protected by a single firewall no longer exists. Protecting the new network requires flexible, scalable technologies that complement your existing on-prem security assets such as firewalls.

But this new reality for network security doesn’t have to blow past budgetary limits. With a cloud- based, converged approach stakeholders can achieve that delicate balance of minimizing security risks, while keeping the total cost of ownership (TCO) down.

Calculating Network Security TCO Network security solutions incur numerous implicit costs that aren’t immediately obvious such as maintenance, onboarding, and scaling. Considering these added costs can help stakeholders evaluate the actual TCO.

Added Cost #1 Time to Implement Frontline security and IT professionals know that company-wide implementation of a new technology can be an extensive process. While many legacy offerings boast out-of-the-box implementations, they usually require much more than the flick of a switch.

This means a substantial time investment for your team for both training support teams to handle the new technology, and the employees who must use it.

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Added Cost #2 Administrator Hours Legacy solutions often require many system administrator hours each month. The more complex the solution, the more time required for administrators to ensure everything runs smoothly, address issues when they arise, and support users.

Legacy solutions also require more time when it comes to addressing bugs, updates, patches, or compatibility issues.

Added Cost #3 Operational Maintenance Sometimes hardware investment is necessary, but this is not the case when it comes to remote work, and it’s a good thing too. The initial cost of purchasing new hardware – while often high – is only the first installment in an ongoing investment of funds, time, and resources. Repair, updates, patches, and replacement are all tasks that require valuable time from skilled IT professionals.

If an organization is spread across multiple locations, or scales up and opens new offices, the cost are even greater due to the time and money spent traveling to remote locations to set up the hardware.

Added Cost #4 Tools and Appliance Sprawl Many legacy solutions are acquired to solve particular problems, which can easily spiral out of control as more and more solutions come onboard to solve problems as they come up. But this compounds negatively over time turning into an unwieldy, snarling mess of tools and technologies.

Once companies expand their toolset beyond a certain point it becomes unmanageable–and often unuse. Tens of thousands of procurement dollars can easily be spent on a new solution to deal with a problem that an existing security tool can already handle, but nobody thought to look.

Added Cost #5 Vendor Lock-in Committing to a hardware product for three to five years limits a company’s agility and flexibility. This can lead to operational issues such as limiting your ability to scale or adapt to new security demands. A SaaS-based solution, by comparison, allows you to meet new challenges quickly and easily. New capabilities are added in the background without the demands of a hardware upgrade, and scaling is seamless and inevitable.

Plus, it inevitably promotes costly forklift upgrades of new hardware in the future when the initial commitment period is over, and the current hardware no longer meets the company’s needs.

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Added Cost #6 Productivity Costs When the VPN goes down quite often that means productivity crashes too. Suddenly your workforce can’t reach the resources they need. Even if you have a second or third location to funnel people through that means even more traffic running through a VPN. This often leads to traffic congestion and a noticeable slowdown in Internet speeds impacting real-time applications that require high bandwidth availability.

Lower TCO With Harmony SASE Harmony SASE can help reduce all these added costs:

#1. Our deployment requires less than an hour compared to the days or even months to roll out refreshes to legacy solutions.

#2. All software upgrades, security patches, and malware signature updates are delivered transparently and quickly, across the entire network by us. This frees up time for your team to focus on other day-to-day tasks and address urgent issues when they arise.

#3. Hardware is not mandatory with Harmony SASE meaning there’s no hardware to maintain.

#4. Harmony SASE is a unified network security solution meaning you can give up the services of multiple vendors and opt for our single pane-of-glass management console. In addition, we’re integrated with Check Point’s Infinity Portal allowing you to manage all your cybersecurity needs from a single location.

#5. Harmony SASE offers monthly or yearly commitments with no minimum requirement meaning no long-term lock-in, and new capabilities are added as they become available without the need to wait for a new model.

#6. Maintain productivity with a zero trust access solution backed by a global private backbone for high- performance connections and high availability.

In order to ensure your business resources and employees remain secure you need a network security solution that protects your remote workers without draining the budget.

Maximize your remote access security, and minimize TCO, with Harmony SASE.

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Meet Harmony SASE 2x Faster Internet Security | Full Mesh Private Access | Secure SD-WAN The internet is the new corporate network, leading organizations to transition to SASE. However current solutions break the user experience with slow connections and complex management.

Harmony SASE is a game-changing alternative that delivers 2x faster internet security combined with full mesh Zero Trust Access and optimized SD-WAN performance—all with an emphasis on ease-of- use and streamlined management.

Combining innovative on-device and cloud-delivered network protections, Harmony SASE offers a local browsing experience with tighter security and privacy, and an identity-centric zero trust access policy that accommodates everyone: employees, BYOD and third parties. Its SD-WAN solution unifies industry-leading threat prevention with optimized connectivity, automated steering for over 10,000 applications and seamless link failover for uninterrupted web conferencing.

Harmony SASE enables any business to build a secure corporate network over a private global backbone in less than an hour. The service is managed from a unified console and is backed by an award-winning global support team that has you covered 24/7.

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