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Cloud-based applications and networking environments have turned traditional networking upside down, presenting unique challenges to IT and security teams alike.

Factors such as a hybrid workforce, a growing cybersecurity skills gap, the explosion of AI, and an ever-evolving threat landscape have forced organizations to rethink their siloed approach to networking and security. A unified approach is needed to deliver secure network access without compromising performance and availability.

Even then, however, gaps can remain. Without a way to fill those gaps, achieving zero trust will be impossible for even the most security-conscious organizations.

Take this Transforming Networking and Security Environments quiz and identify the issues that most matter to you. We’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content to help you achieve your goals!

1. What’s top of mind when considering your current networking and security environments?

Creating a high-quality user experience for all employees regardless of location

Better collaboration between networking and security teams

Reducing operational complexity

2. How would you describe your current networking and security environments?

Difficult to manage and secure our cloud-based apps and data

Difficult to deliver performance, availability, security, and simplicity without compromises

Difficult to manage the complexity of separate networking and security environments

3. What’s your main networking and security goal?

Having a comprehensive, integrated, highly secure networking environment

Ensuring secure and performant access to apps and data

Improving our networking and security environments while reducing technology sprawl

4. What’s your biggest networking and security challenge?

No single view of the network and security operations

Inability to provide comprehensive security for users across locations

Siloed approach to networking and security

5. Which aspect of your networking and security strategy needs the most help?

We need more flexible network architectures to connect many different types of global networks and users

We need to embed and integrate security functions into our network operations

We are dealing with growing network and security complexity

6. What benefit would you most like to achieve in transforming your networking and security environments?

Faster onboarding of new users, offices, applications, and locations

Reduced network solution costs with the ability to do more with less

Better management and visibility of network and security policies

7. What would you envision the future of your network and security environments?

Converged, zero trust, and able to handle new applications such as AI

Seamless, secure, and highly performant

Flexible, converged, and easier to manage

8. What is the biggest risk of inaction around transforming your networking and security environments?

We wouldn’t be able to manage the technology sprawl

We would risk losing business because of lower employee productivity due to slow network performance

We would be at greater risk of security threats to our network

9. What would be the greatest value of a converged network and security solution?

Higher performance

Greater operational efficiencies

Better visibility and easier management of security policies

10. How would a converged network and security solution like Unified SASE benefit your organization?

We’d have increased productivity due to less branch downtime

We’d experience fewer security incidents

It would bring teams and projects together, increasing our efficiencies while reducing costs