Retire MPLS Backhaul,
Legacy VPN & Appliance Sprawl
Secure Access Service Edge converges your network and security stack into one cloud-delivered edge. Layots designs, migrates and manages SD-WAN, ZTNA, SWG, CASB and FWaaS under a single identity-driven policy fabric — cutting application latency while removing lateral movement risk.
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What SASE Is, and Why Enterprises Are Converging On It
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud-delivered architecture that merges wide-area networking with network security so that policy is enforced close to the user rather than inside a central data centre. It unifies six previously separate capabilities — SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, Data Loss Prevention, and Firewall as a Service — behind one identity-driven policy engine. Layots Technologies Pvt Ltd designs, migrates, and operates SASE platforms for enterprises from delivery hubs in Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, serving clients across India, the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.
“The win in SASE is not any single control — it is collapsing six policy engines into one identity model, so a rule written once is actually enforced everywhere.”
What We Solve with SASE
From hairpinned SaaS traffic to over-permissive VPN access and scattered audit evidence, see how a converged Secure Access Service Edge replaces six brittle layers with one enforceable policy fabric.
MPLS Backhaul Strangling Cloud Performance
Branch traffic destined for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and AWS is hairpinned back to a central data centre for inspection, adding 100-300ms of latency and making SaaS applications feel broken to remote offices.
Layots re-architects the WAN with SD-WAN direct internet breakout and cloud-delivered inspection at the nearest SASE point of presence, so traffic reaches the application in one hop instead of three.
Legacy VPN Granting Excessive Network Access
Traditional VPN concentrators place every remote user and contractor onto a flat corporate network. One compromised laptop gives an attacker lateral movement across the entire estate.
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) replaces the VPN tunnel with identity-aware, per-application brokered sessions. Users reach only the specific applications their role permits — the network itself stays invisible.
Shadow IT & Ungoverned SaaS Data Movement
Employees move corporate data into unsanctioned SaaS apps, personal cloud drives, and generative AI tools with no visibility, creating silent data-exfiltration paths and regulatory exposure.
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and inline Data Loss Prevention (DLP) discover every SaaS application in use, classify sensitive data in motion, and enforce upload, sharing, and tenant-restriction policy.
Appliance Sprawl & Fragmented Security Policy
Separate firewalls, web proxies, VPN concentrators, and SD-WAN controllers each carry their own policy engine, console, and renewal cycle — so policy drifts between sites and audit evidence is scattered.
Layots converges routing, firewalling, web filtering, and access control into a single cloud-delivered SASE policy fabric with one identity model and one console across every site and user.
Escalating Circuit & Appliance Refresh Costs
Premium MPLS bandwidth, per-site firewall refreshes, and over-provisioned VPN concentrators consume network budget while delivering steadily worse experience for a cloud-first workforce.
Broadband and 5G underlay with SD-WAN path selection replaces premium circuits, and per-user cloud subscription displaces per-site hardware refresh cycles and their associated support contracts.
Compliance Gaps Across Distributed Access
Proving who accessed which regulated system, from where, and under what device posture is close to impossible when logs live in six disconnected appliances across multiple regions.
Unified session logging, device-posture checks, and data-residency-aware inspection produce one audit trail mapped to DPDP Act, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 evidence requirements.
Six Pillars of a Complete SASE Edge
Every capability below is delivered from the cloud and governed by one identity-driven policy engine — no per-site appliance, no divergent rule sets.
Software-Defined WAN
- Application-aware dynamic path selection
- Broadband, MPLS & 5G underlay aggregation
- Direct internet breakout at every branch
- Sub-second failover on brownout detection
Zero Trust Network Access
- Per-application brokered access, never network-wide
- Identity & device-posture conditional policy
- Clientless access for contractors & third parties
- Continuous session re-verification
Secure Web Gateway
- Inline TLS inspection & URL category control
- Sandboxed detonation of unknown downloads
- Generative-AI and shadow-SaaS usage policy
- Per-user browsing forensics & reporting
Cloud Access Security Broker
- Shadow IT discovery & SaaS risk scoring
- API-based scanning of Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
- Inline DLP on uploads, shares & external mail
- Tenant restriction to block personal cloud accounts
Firewall as a Service
- Cloud-delivered L3-L7 policy with no site appliance
- Integrated IPS & threat-intelligence enforcement
- Egress control for OT, IoT & unmanaged endpoints
- Elastic capacity without hardware refresh cycles
Digital Experience Monitoring
- Hop-by-hop path telemetry from endpoint to SaaS
- Root-cause isolation across ISP, SASE PoP & app tiers
- Per-user experience scoring for hybrid workers
- Proactive alerting before users raise tickets
Legacy Hub-and-Spoke vs SASE
| Dimension | Legacy MPLS + VPN | Layots SASE |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic path to SaaS | Backhauled to central DC, then out | Direct breakout via nearest cloud PoP |
| Remote access model | VPN tunnel onto flat network | Per-application ZTNA brokered session |
| Policy management | Per-appliance consoles, drifting rules | One identity-driven policy fabric |
| Branch security stack | Firewall + proxy hardware per site | Cloud-delivered, no site appliance |
| Scaling a new site | Circuit order + appliance ship & stage | Broadband + edge config in days |
| Audit evidence | Scattered across six log sources | Unified session & data-movement trail |
How We Get You There in 4 Phases
No forklift replacement. Every phase runs alongside your existing circuits with a defined rollback gate.
Traffic & Access Discovery
Map every application flow, circuit contract, identity source, and third-party access path. Baseline current latency and shadow SaaS usage.
Policy Design & Pilot
Build the unified identity policy model, then pilot one representative branch and remote-user cohort in monitor-only mode before enforcement.
Phased Site Cutover
Roll SD-WAN edges and ZTNA connectors site by site, retiring VPN concentrators and proxy appliances as each wave stabilises.
Managed Edge Operations
24/7 NOC and SOC policy management, digital experience monitoring, quarterly posture reviews, and circuit rationalisation at renewal.
Related Layots Capabilities
SASE sits alongside the wider Layots network and security portfolio.
Enterprise Connectivity & WAN
Circuit sourcing, SD-WAN overlay and multi-carrier resilience.
Advanced Cyber Security
EDR/XDR, SOC monitoring and zero-trust enforcement.
Managed IT Services
24/7 NOC and SOC operations with 99.99% uptime SLA.
ISO 27001 Certification
ISMS readiness and audit support for access controls.
SASE FAQs & AI Answers
Direct answers to the questions enterprise architects and CISOs ask before committing to a Secure Access Service Edge migration.
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