Exclusive interview with Li Xiaodong from DYXnet: Using SASE to strengthen network boundaries and provide “cloud-edge-device” security empowerment

In today's digital age, the stability and security of enterprise networks are of vital importance. How to ensure network security has become a "must-answer question" for the sustainable and stable development of enterprises. In recent years, SASE has entered the market strongly. With its comprehensive security protection capabilities, it is gradually being favored by enterprises, and the SASE service market is also showing a booming development trend. Among the many SASE "players", First Line is quite innovative. On the basis of continuously enhancing the service capabilities of "First Line SASE", it is gradually promoting its integration with AI. At the 2023 Sixth SD-WAN & SASE Conference and Cloud Network Conference held recently, a reporter from Communication World All Media interviewed Li Xiaodong, the product manager of First Line, to uncover the mystery of "First Line SASE".

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Adapt to the situation and strengthen security protection strategy

Li Xiaodong said that the development of SASE technology cannot be achieved overnight. Adding and deploying SASE on the basis of the original SD-WAN requires not only in-depth development of existing network service capabilities, but also continuous follow-up of the actual needs of the market environment for extension and enhancement.

At present, DYXnet has built more than 200 node resources in more than 100 node cities, and core cities have been upgraded to SASE POP nodes. Corporate headquarters and branches can use DYXnet SD-WAN to access the nearest SASE POP and quickly achieve secure interconnection. At the same time, DYXnet has created an SD-WAN & SASE management platform to help enterprise users uniformly visualize the management of network and security situation. In addition, DYXnet has also built a SOC+NOC dual operation system that can respond to network security incidents agilely and provide enterprises with double security protection.

Based on the integrated development of resources and technologies, as well as insights into the needs of enterprise security interconnection, Dianxian has built a one-stop delivery capability that can build SASE POP nodes in hours according to the needs of enterprise interconnection, and provide flexible subscription services and policy-driven, matching the best network capabilities and security protection support for different applications. In addition, Dianxian also keeps up with the changes and upgrades in enterprise application interconnection scenarios and continues to innovate. For interconnection scenarios such as enterprise intranet security, Internet and cloud access security, and mobile office, Dianxian can provide customized SASE solutions to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency in building security protection capabilities. At the same time, Dianxian also cooperates with a number of leading security vendors around emerging scenarios such as edge AI applications and the Internet of Things, integrating their security capability advantages to form a SASE ecosystem, in order to integrate a comprehensive security resource pool to help enterprises cope with emerging new threat challenges.

Borrowing wisdom and attracting intelligence to expand the boundaries of service capabilities

In recent years, AI technology has attracted much attention. Sinking the application capabilities of AI large models to the edge will help bring a more efficient user experience, but it will also lead to many security challenges. As a result, security threats will have the opportunity to attack from weak links such as the cloud edge and destroy IT digital assets such as large models and containers. This requires SASE to provide security capabilities throughout the cloud edge.

Li Xiaodong introduced that at present, Dianxian is committed to exploring and promoting the integration and coordination of SASE security service closed loop and AI services.

In terms of network security infrastructure resource construction, DYXnet is continuously increasing SASE POP construction and extending SASE security subscription services to more edge devices. At the same time, DYXnet SASE forms an agile and intelligent security closed loop by integrating the cloud security engine of its partners. Based on the AI ​​learning capability of the cloud security engine, DYXnet SASE can identify unknown threats in real time, immunize the entire network synchronously, and link terminal EDR to detect and kill threats.

At the edge terminal access level, DYXnet makes full use of the cloud-native carrying capabilities of the SD-WAN CPE to offload AI service capabilities to the on-site edge. At the same time, based on the DYXnet SASE zero-trust client and EDR applications, it makes threats to edge access terminals manageable and controllable.

At the platform management level, the DYXnet SD-WAN & SASE management platform will be able to adapt to more types of intelligent edge devices, visually manage their data interconnection status, and link with DYXnet SASE services to ensure their secure interconnection.

The development of AI is an inevitable trend, and the combination of the SASE market and AI has brought vitality and change to network security. With the continuous advancement of AI technology, the SASE market will also develop in the direction of intelligence. We look forward to creating a more intelligent, efficient and secure network environment for enterprises and even industries with the joint efforts of "cloud network security" service providers represented by Dianxian in the future.