Hackers, Hybrid Work and Hidden Risks: Simplifying Security with Unified SASE, ZTNA and SD-WAN - Nasstar and Fortinet

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Overview

In this CIO and CISO Inspired Summit masterclass, moderator Rebecca Hopwood-Keay, Marketing Manager at Nasstar, is joined by Leigh Walgate, Managing Director of Secure Networks at Nasstar, and Dan Kendall, CTO for Public Sector and National Security, UK and Ireland, at Fortinet.

With hybrid work, cloud adoption and increasingly sophisticated threats pushing traditional security models to their limits, the panel explains what SASE really means, why the 'castle and moat' model is fading, and how zero trust enables smarter, context-aware access and continuous verification.

Key takeaways

  • The old model of a trusted corporate network protected by firewalls no longer fits users, applications and data spread across many locations.
  • A minimum viable level of security is driven by risk analysis, and understanding risk depends on visibility, which is hard with 50 to 150 point tools.
  • Simply moving castle-and-moat security into someone else's data centre doesn't solve the problem; the architecture itself needs to change.
  • With zero trust, security policies are applied to the user and travel with them, and access to data can be revoked in real time.
  • Unified SASE delivers ROI through consolidation, fewer duplicate tools, less human error and greater agility, with co-managed MSSP support available 24/7.

Watch the full session on YouTube: Hackers, Hybrid Work & Hidden Risks: Simplifying Security with Unified SASE, ZTNA & SD-WAN

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