Whether you pronounce SASE as “sassy” or “sayce,” the secure access service edge is IT, and it’s becoming central to enterprise systems as data floods in from multiple channels. SASE is used to deliver wide area networking and security controls as a cloud service directly to the origin of the network edge rather than the data center.
As a contribution to managing this tangled virtual wire, Palo Alto Networks this week unveiled new capabilities that update the Prisma SASE platform by adding AIOps to automate these operations and make them more efficient. bottom. The company describes it as the industry’s first “natively integrated artificial intelligence for IT operations” for SASE. This is because it typically bundles together best-of-breed components (SDN, Zero Trust security, and software-defined secure web gateways). centralized package.
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The new capabilities will help organizations automate increasingly complex IT and network operations center (NOC) functions, Matt De Vincentes, vice president of marketing for SASE at Palo Alto Networks, told The New Stack.
“You can mix and match these components from multiple different vendors, and when you integrate these capabilities, you get a potential stack,” said De Vincentes. “But more and more we’re seeing a single vendor move towards something called his SASE, which is all these capabilities wrapped up by a single thing that can be simplified. That’s exactly what I is what we are doing.
“So, all the functionality a customer needs to build this SASE deployment is available in a single (SaaS) service. You can put it together, and you can run interesting AI on top of it.”
AI Ops
Palo Alto Networks calls it Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM), which also provides users with end-to-end observability across the network, said De Vincentes. ADEM is integrated with Prisma SASE, so there is no need to deploy additional appliances or agents, he said.
According to De Vincentes, AIOps for ADEM offers:
- AI-based problem detection and predictive analytics proactively remediate issues that could cause service disruptions.
- Isolate problems faster (lower mean time to repair) with an easy-to-use query interface.and
- Detect network anomalies from a single dashboard.
PA Networks also announced three new SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) capabilities for users to secure IoT devices, automate branch management, and manage SD-WAN via on-premises controllers. According to the company, it has the following features:
- Prisma SD-WAN Command Center It provides AI-powered segment-level insights and constant network and app monitoring for proactive problem resolution at the branch level.
- Prisma SD-WAN with Integrated IoT Security Enable existing Prisma SD-WAN appliances to protect IoT devices. This enables accurate detection and identification of branch IoT devices.
- On-Premises Controller for Prisma SD-WAN It helps meet customer regulatory and compliance requirements and works with on-premises and cloud controller deployments.
Users can now choose to deploy Prisma SD-WAN using a cloud management console, an on-premises controller, or both in hybrid scenarios.
The company says all new features will be available by May 2023, with the exception of Prisma SD-WAN Command Center, which will be available by July.
