The growing complexity of today’s enterprise networks has created chaos — a tangled mix of tools, policies, and disconnected environments that make it nearly impossible to see what’s really happening. Without unified visibility and control, organizations struggle to understand who has access to what, exposing themselves to misconfigurations, breaches, and compliance risks.
As enterprises embrace hybrid work, rapid cloud adoption, and the explosion of SaaS applications, the cracks in traditional security models are widening fast. Security leaders are now under pressure to regain control, unify visibility, and enforce consistent policies across an ever-expanding attack surface:
- Hybrid work has fundamentally changed the perimeter — with 51 % of workers preferring fully remote, and 46 % preferring hybrid arrangements, according to JobsReach blog.
- Cloud and SaaS sprawl introduce blind spots. Many organizations already support ~130 SaaS apps on average yet struggle to maintain visibility and control across them (Crunch Marketing).
- Fragmented policies and tool sprawl: In a 2025 survey of 1,011 IT and security professionals, nearly half (49 %) identified “too many overlapping tools” as one of their top challenges, (The Sequence).
- Data risk is on the rise: In 2025, regulators imposed over USD 220 million in cyber-related penalties in just Q1, highlighting how failing to maintain proper controls (and proving them) is increasingly costly (Rhyno Cybersecurity).
This is where Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) enters the picture, bringing networking and security together into a single, cloud-delivered framework — enabling organizations to provide secure, seamless access for users, devices, and applications, wherever they are.
It’s no wonder security leaders are looking to SASE as the backbone for connecting a distributed workforce and securing access to cloud applications.
Tufin simplifies this complexity with a unified control plane that delivers centralized visibility, automated policy orchestration, and continuous compliance across hybrid environments. Together with Versa Networks, a leader in the SASE market, we discussed how to strengthen your SASE environment when it is deployed in a complex hybrid network.
Here are five key insights that matter when it comes to securing your SASE:
Complexity is the New Security Gap
Cloud growth, SaaS adoption, and hybrid work have multiplied the number of policies, tools, and configurations enterprises must manage. Instead of a single security framework, most organizations are left with fragmented policies spread across dozens of platforms and multiple environments. Nearly half of IT leaders cite overlapping tools as a top challenge, and more than half say tool maintenance drains critical time and resources. This rising complexity doesn’t just slow down operations — it opens dangerous gaps that attackers can exploit.
In a recent study conducted by Forrester, 39% of IT and security leaders say their organizations are losing control of IT and security environments due to rising complexity (Forrester Connectivity Cloud Research, 2024).
Visibility is Non-Negotiable
Fragmented environments, where policies are spread across multiple clouds, SASE, SD-WAN, and on-premises firewalls, create blind spots that make it hard to know who has access to what. Gaps in segmentation and unclear access rights often result in over permissive rules and policy creep that attackers can exploit. Real-time insight into users, devices, and access paths are essential to detect those gaps before they turn into a breach.
Unified visibility across hybrid environments helps eliminate these blind spots, highlight risky rules, and align access controls across hybrid environments. It gives teams the ability to maintain consistency across cloud, on-premises, and SASE environments while reducing the chance of misconfigurations and hidden exposures.
Continuous Compliance is Mandatory
Audit preparation often drains precious time and resources, with enterprises struggling through manual processes, complex requirements, and audit fatigue. With frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, PCI, and NIST in play, annual or point-in-time audits are no longer enough. What’s needed is a system of automated controls that prevent policy drift and continuously enforces consistent security policies across environments.
Just as important, organizations must be able to demonstrate these controls to auditors with clear, repeatable evidence. Continuous compliance monitoring and automated audit trials don’t just save time, they turn compliance into a built-in practice that strengthens security and proves it, every single day.
Automation Unlocks Agility Across SASE and Hybrid Platforms
Manual policy changes are slow and error-prone, draining resources and creating unnecessary exposure. Manual change implementation adds even more burden in fragmented environments.
Automation enables faster network troubleshooting, real-time policy validation, and streamlined ITSM integrations. The result: shorter SLAs, reduced risk, and teams that can focus on higher-value work instead of firefighting
Better Together: Versa + Tufin
Versa delivers secure, scalable connectivity across SSE and SD-WAN SASE architecture. Tufin provides a unified control plane that delivers centralized visibility, automated policy orchestration, and continuous compliance across hybrid networks. This means policies defined in SASE can be connected to cloud and on-premises firewalls, ensuring consistent enforcement no matter where applications and users reside.
Together they create a stronger, simpler, and more secure SASE foundation that reduces the attack surface, increases uptime, and simplifies compliance for modern enterprises. And because this foundation enforces least-privilege access across users, devices, and applications, it directly supports a Zero Trust security model, where trust is never assumed, and every connection is verified.
Strengthening SASE for the Future
Enterprises don’t just need SASE, they need secure, simplified, and automated SASE. The reality is that network complexity will only continue to grow as hybrid work, cloud adoption, and SaaS sprawl accelerate. Point tools and manual processes can’t keep up.
That’s why we simplify network complexity with a unified control plane that delivers centralized visibility, automated policy orchestration, and continuous compliance across hybrid environments. This unified approach doesn’t just strengthen your security posture, it ensures consistent, Zero Trust enforcement wherever applications, data, and users are.
To learn more about how Tufin and Versa Networks can help strengthen your SASE environment, watch the on-demand webinar.
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