Unified SASE as a Service 2.0, which as of this year is available via a consumption-based buying model, offers customers and partners a highly attractive one-platform approach to networking and security, with an ‘immediate, near-term upsell opportunity’ for partners with the addition of Universal ZTNA to the platform, Aryaka Channel Chief Nick Alagna tells CRN.
Unified SASE as a Service 2.0, announced on Wednesday, includes several new features to brace enterprises for the AI adoption boom, including Aryaka Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Aryaka AI Secure, and Next-Gen DLP, the company told CRN.
The upgraded platform takes advantage of the position that Aryaka has in the networking and security space and “just elevating it with new insights and perspectives, especially around security,” Scott Fanning, Aryaka’s vice president of security product management, told CRN on version 2.0.
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Aryaka first unveiled Unified SASE as a Service in March 2024. The offering is a unified single-pass architecture that combines Aryaka’s own global private network backbone, security, observability and application performance capabilities, all-in-one platform and delivered as a service.
Earlier this year in February, the company added its AI Observe, which joined AI Perform that was already on the platform to arm enterprises with increased visibility into issue or security incidents and help reduce alert fatigue, Aryaka previously told CRN. The company at the same time introduced new pricing and packaging to make their services easier for partners and end customers to adopt, Aryaka said.
Now, Aryaka AI Secure is being added to version 2.0 to help support enterprises through their GenAI adoption journeys, Fanning said.
“If you talk to customers, they all want to use AI and they all see the productivity gains they can get by using it. But if you talk to security practitioners, it’s a new attack surface that gives them a little bit of the heebie-jeebies. So, the idea is that they can allow for safe usage of AI by their users, by allowing certain types of controls and governance around them,” he said.
AI Secure works by securing employee access to public GenAI apps and safeguarding internal GenAI services. It can block prompt injections, token flooding, malicious code, URL, and jailbreaks, while enforcing content-safety and sentiment controls through centralized policy enforcement, real-time monitoring, and intelligent traffic classification, Aryaka said.
AI Secure will be available in the platform during the first quarter of 2026, according to the company.
Aryaka Universal ZTNA, which is part of the platform as of this month, enables Zero Trust access to any app from anywhere. The new feature enforces consistent, identity and posture-based access control across all edges of Aryaka’s Zero Trust WAN, including users, apps, and locations, the company said.
“[It’s about] being able to identify consistent policy across different access types, to be able to look at the posture of the endpoint, allow for conditional access, and then taking advantage of the One Pass architecture that Aryaka has for security,” Fanning said.
Aryaka Unified SASE as a Service 2.0 also will include Next-Gen DLP for advanced data loss prevention, which works by employing AI-powered natural language processing, granular policy tuning, and contextual pattern recognition to protect data in motion between networks, applications, locations, and users, Aryaka said. This update will be available in the March 2026 timeframe, Fanning said.
Alongside the updated platform, the company has refreshed the My Aryaka portal for simplified visibility and policy enforcement. The platform’s updated My Aryaka landing page provides instant visibility into critical network and security data, helping teams save valuable time and effort, the company said.
“We’re recognizing the convergence between networking and security as part of SASE, as well as giving bigger insights and calls to action for our customers across both networking and security,” he said.
The Partner Opportunity
Unified SASE as a Service 2.0, which as of this year is available via a consumption-based buying model, offers customers and channel partners a one-platform approach, which is highly sought after right now, according to Nick Alagna, Aryaka’s vice president of global channels.
“[Partners] have fatigue with vendor sprawl, multiple tools, multiple dashboards [and] solutions that are hard to manage. They’re really looking for simplicity. This is really continuing down that path of delivering a truly unified offering of networking and security, one platform, one vendor, one portal,” Alagna told CRN.
The addition of the Universal ZTNA into the platform also presents an “immediate, near-term upsell opportunity” for partners since many enterprises still rely on legacy access solutions, such as traditional VPNs and siloed ZTNA technologies, he said.
“This really gives our partners a timely entry point to help customers modernize remote access, replacing those legacy VPNs and fragmented tools,” Alagna said.
More than 65 customers have deployed Aryaka’s Unified SASE solution in production since its launch in 2024, including organizations from the manufacturing, transportation, technology, retail, and other industries, the company said.
