Unified Access, Consistent Security
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solves these challenges by unifying networking and security into a cloud-delivered architecture. By combining SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE) capabilities, including secure web gateways, CASB, ZTNA, and Firewall-as-a-Service, SASE provides seamless, identity-based protection across users, data, and workloads.
Through integrations with leading SASE platforms, Tufin delivers visibility, automation, and governance across every edge, ensuring consistent, compliant network access from the data center to the cloud.
SASE Use Cases
Unified Policy Management
Centralize the creation and enforcement of policies across multiple SASE and firewall platforms.
Zero Trust Access Control
Consistently apply least-privilege principles across users, devices, and clouds to prevent lateral movement and data exposure.
Automated Risk and Compliance Validation
Continuously validate policies against corporate and regulatory standards to maintain compliance and reduce audit fatigue.
End-to-End Visibility
Gain complete context of access paths, network zones, and cloud connections to identify policy gaps and misalignments in real time.
Hybrid Network Integration
Extend SASE governance and control to on-premises and multi-cloud environments for consistent security across the enterprise.
Traditional network and security architectures can’t keep pace with today’s distributed workforce and cloud-first world. Employees connect from anywhere, branch offices, home networks, and mobile devices, while applications now live in multiple clouds. This shift has created fragmented tools, inconsistent security, and degraded application performance.
Unifying SASE Security and Connectivity Policies
In a SASE environment, security and connectivity policies define trust, governing how users, devices, and applications communicate across clouds, data centers, and remote edges.
As organizations deploy multiple SASE solutions or integrate them with existing firewall technologies, inconsistent policy management quickly becomes a significant risk.
Without a unified view, teams face policy configuration drift, misaligned enforcement, and security gaps. Achieving effective SASE governance requires centralized visibility, consistent policy enforcement, and automated control to maintain security and compliance at scale.
Breaking Down Policy Silos in SASE Environments
SASE management is inherently multi-vendor and distributed. Providers such as Palo Alto Prisma Access, Zscaler, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Meraki, and Versa Networks each have their own policy models, terminology, and interfaces.
As a result, network and security teams must reconcile overlapping policies manually across data centers, clouds, and SD-WAN edges. This fragmentation creates blind spots, duplicate configurations, and inconsistent access controls that weaken the organization’s overall security posture.
The result is a complex hybrid environment where visibility is limited, compliance is manual, and agility is constrained.
How Tufin Solves SASE Policy Complexity
Tufin unifies SASE and traditional firewall policies under a single, centralized control plane.
With Tufin, you can:
- Manage SASE and firewall policies from one unified console.
- Automate access and policy validation to prevent conflicts and misconfigurations.
- Gain complete visibility into user, device, and application access paths.
- Ensure every policy change aligns with Zero Trust principles and compliance frameworks.
- Extend centralized governance across platforms such as Prisma Access, Zscaler, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Meraki, and Versa Networks.
Why Tufin?
Tufin secures your network by unifying SASE, cloud platforms, and on-premises firewalls under a unified control plane.
This eliminates fragmentation and delivers continuous visibility, compliance, and automation, no matter where your users or applications reside.
With Tufin, organizations can:
- Unify policy management across SASE and traditional security layers.
- Reduce risk and misconfiguration through centralized visibility and automation.
- Accelerate secure change delivery with pre-deployment validation and compliance checks.
- Ensure consistent Zero Trust enforcement across hybrid environments.
- Simplify operations with a single governance platform for the entire network edge.
Transforming Network Security & Automation
Elevate your network security and cloud security operations with Tufin’s product tiers. Addressing the most challenging use cases, from segmentation insights to enterprise-wide orchestration and automation, experience a holistic approach to network security policy management.
SecureTrack+
Firewall & Security Policy Management
Drive your security policy journey with SecureTrack+
- Centralize network security policy management, risk mitigation and compliance monitoring across firewalls, NGFWs, routers, switches, SDN and hybrid cloud
- Automate policy optimization
- Prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilities
SecureChange+
Network Security Change Automation
Enhance your visibility and automate mundane tasks with SecureChange+
- Achieve continuous compliance
- Reduce network change SLAs by up to 90% with network change design and rule lifecycle management
- Identify risky attack vectors and detect lateral movement
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues across the hybrid cloud
Enterprise
Zero-Trust Network Security at Scale
Fortify your network security operations with Enterprise
- Achieve zero-touch automation through provisioning of network access changes
- Deploy apps faster through application connectivity management
- Minimize downtime and data loss with High Availability and built-in redundancy
FAQs
SASE centralizes policy enforcement across cloud services, branch offices, remote workers, and data center environments. As organizations deploy multiple SASE solutions alongside traditional firewalls, policy drift and misconfigurations become common.
Unified SASE governance provides centralized management, automated validation, and real-time insights into access paths, user activity, and network traffic. This reduces security gaps, streamlines IT teams’ workflows, and ensures consistent Zero Trust enforcement across the entire enterprise network.
SASE and SD-WAN architectures span multiple providers, cloud platforms, and security functions. Without unified policy management, teams must manually reconcile overlapping rules across cloud-based security services, SD-WAN edges, and on-premises firewalls. This leads to inconsistencies, blind spots, and degraded security posture.
Centralized management eliminates fragmented tools, supports automation, prevents misconfiguration, and ensures that all routing, security policies, and ZTNA controls remain aligned across the hybrid network.
- Hybrid work enablement through secure connectivity and real-time security enforcement.
- Branch office modernization with cloud-delivered networking and cloud-based security.
- Zero Trust Network Access for remote workers accessing SaaS and cloud services.
- Network optimization through improved routing traffic, bandwidth management, and reduced latency.
- Cloud migration initiatives that require integrated security and cloud-native architectures.
- Consolidation of traditional WAN and security stacks into a single cloud-delivered model.
These use cases support scalability, reduce operational costs, and strengthen enterprise-wide security.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud-delivered architecture that unifies networking and security services such as ZTNA, secure web gateways, CASB, and Firewall-as-a-Service. It delivers secure connectivity and consistent security policies across users, devices, branch offices, cloud services, and SaaS applications.
SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) is a networking solution that optimizes routing, bandwidth, and network performance across remote access connections, MPLS circuits, broadband links, and enterprise networks. SD-WAN solutions improve latency, streamline routing traffic, and enhance user experience.
Together, SASE and SD-WAN provide integrated security, cloud-based security services, centralized control, and cloud-native optimization across hybrid work and distributed environments.
Security Service Edge (SSE) delivers cloud-based security functions including ZTNA, secure web gateways, CASB, and threat protection. SSE focuses on the security stack only.
SASE combines SSE security services with SD-WAN networking capabilities to create a single cloud-delivered model that provides secure connectivity, policy enforcement, and real-time protection across remote workers, branch offices, and cloud environments.
SD-WAN alone handles routing, network traffic optimization, and secure connectivity across on-premises and cloud environments but does not include the cloud-native security features of SSE or SASE.
SSE = security only
SD-WAN = networking only
SASE = networking + security in one unified architecture
Yes. Organizations can deploy SASE with only the SSE layer, relying on existing networking solutions or traditional WAN architectures. This delivers cloud-based security services and Zero Trust Network Access across remote workers and cloud-based applications.
However, without SD-WAN, organizations may miss out on WAN optimization, routing performance improvements, and cost-effective connectivity for branch offices. Full SASE adoption integrates both capabilities to streamline routing traffic, optimize user experience, and reduce operational complexity.
No. SSE is a subset of SASE. SSE provides the cloud-based security layer, including secure web gateways, CASB, ZTNA, and threat protection. SASE includes all the security features of SSE plus SD-WAN to unify security policies and networking under a single cloud-delivered platform.
SSE enhances network security and Zero Trust, while SASE extends this with routing optimization, bandwidth control, and improved network performance across enterprise networks.
SD-WAN and SASE complement each other by combining cloud-based security with intelligent routing and connectivity optimization. SD-WAN directs traffic across broadband, MPLS, and cloud access paths, reducing latency and improving application performance.
SASE layers integrated security services such as ZTNA, CASB, secure web gateways, and Firewall-as-a-Service on top of SD-WAN connectivity. This ensures secure connectivity, real-time policy enforcement, and consistent protection across remote access, branch offices, cloud services, and on-premises systems.
When unified, SD-WAN and SASE streamline network management, centralize policy enforcement, reduce complexity, and deliver a scalable, cloud-native architecture for hybrid work.
Getting Started with Tufin
Are you ready to simplify complexity, eliminate risk, and achieve true Zero Trust across your SASE, cloud, and on-premises environments? Request a demo and explore how Tufin delivers unified visibility, automation, and Zero Trust enforcement across your hybrid network.
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