Aryaka, which delivers Unified SASE as a Service, is announcing Aryaka Unified 2.0. The new platform incorporates several major new features to accommodate the growth of remote work and rising AI adoption. Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 ensures that any user can securely connect to any application, anywhere, with performance, simplicity, and agility. Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 gives channel partners an even stronger, simpler way to deliver converged networking and security to their clients. The platform introduces significant new features (like Universal ZTNA, AI>Secure, and Next-Gen DLP) that are all integrated as part of the service. Channel partners and MSPs will now have a single solution that enables them to deliver networking and security – all available as part of a single, intuitive platform with a single vendor. SASE 2.0 as a Service has been designed for maximum simplicity. It’s easy to deploy and makes it possible to leverage different capabilities only as their customers need them.
“Aryaka Unified SASE as a Service is a single platform that fully converges networking and security,” said Renuka Nadkarni, Aryaka’s Chief Product Officer. “It’s the only secure networking solution designed and built to deliver performance, agility, simplicity and security without trade-offs. The service combines a unified single-pass architecture, a global private network backbone, and integrated security, observability and application-performance capabilities into one package, enabling customers to modernize, optimize and transform their networking and security environments on their own terms.
“We’ve listened closely to customers over the past year, and that feedback has guided the development of Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0. The company learned a couple key things: First, organizations need to expand secure, high-performance network connectivity to hybrid workforce across the globe. Second, they need help safeguarding their GenAI apps and services,” said Renuka Nadkarni, Chief Product Officer at Aryaka. “Our Unified SASE as a Service 2.0 does both, without any tradeoffs between networking and security.” She indicated that Palo Alto Networks, Cato, and Versa all compete in the SASE space.
“But Aryaka is the only company to deliver a truly unified SASE service that offers comprehensive networking and security capabilities without tradeoffs between either,” she stated.
Nadkarni said that Unified SASE as a Service is taking off rapidly.
“Since the introduction of Aryaka Unified SASE 1.0 in March 2024, over 100 enterprise customers have deployed Aryaka’s Unified SASE solution,” she said. “Today, SASE now represents more than 30% of Aryaka’s total revenues.”
Still, Nadkarni said the difference between Aryaka Unified SASE 1.0 and Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 is profound.
“It’s a massive update,” she stated. “SASE, by definition, combines SD-WAN and security to provide secure connectivity to sites and branches. Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 extends these capabilities to address first AI traffic, and secondly, remote users. On those lines, 2.0 introduces three major new features: Universal ZTNA, AI>Secure, and Next-Gen DLP. Collectively, these features, along with other upgrades, give organizations enhanced security capabilities to safeguard their AI deployments and added flexibility that makes it possible to offer a cohesive networking and security experience for users working across hybrid environments.”
Nadkarni reviewed the difference between the two versions in some detail.
“AI>Secure complements our previously announced AI>Perform and AI>Observe features to give customers everything they need to safely leverage AI while achieving the top-tier network performance these deployments demand,” she noted. “They’ve got the full package now. That’s enormous as organizations race to take advantage of AI. Meanwhile, the new Universal ZTNA allows enterprises to consistently enforce policies and access controls across hybrid environments. This is significant because it makes it possible to deliver secure remote access to apps and data just as easily as delivering secure on-site access. Hybrid work is the status quo these days. And our Universal ZTNA allows organizations to support it confidently.”
As these needs accelerate across industries, analysts are seeing the same trend take shape globally. According to research from Roy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink, enterprises are rapidly converging networking and security to support AI-driven growth. The study found that 35% of organizations have already converged, while nearly 60% expect to do so within the next 12–18 months, and almost none plan to delay convergence indefinitely – highlighting that unified approaches like Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a Service 2.0 are becoming essential for the AI and remote-work era.
“Generative and Agentic AI are changing how and where work gets done. That means the supporting network and security posture must evolve accordingly,” said Roy Chua, Founder and Analyst at AvidThink. “With a fully-converged approach to networking and security, Aryaka Unified SASE as a Service 2.0 can help enterprises gain the performance, protection, and visibility needed to confidently adopt AI at scale, in both on-premises and hybrid environments. Its secure converged offering allows organizations to innovate without exposing intellectual property and assets.”
AvidThink’s survey findings for the North American market also show why this convergence is so urgent. Top enterprise challenges include scaling networking and security for AI and data growth (68%), meeting compliance requirements (59%), and reducing multi-vendor complexity (49%) – pain points Aryaka directly addresses with its Zero Trust WAN foundation.
Many enterprises still rely on complex and inconsistent access solutions, such as traditional VPNs and siloed ZTNA technologies, that subject networks to poor performance, unauthorized access, and credential abuse. This results in inconsistent policies, unauthorized access, operational complexity, poor network performance, and an inability to enforce access controls across remote users, hybrid environments, and cloud applications.
“Siloed ZTNA solutions lack visibility, subject networks to poor performance, and are unable to enforce access controls across hybrid environments, remote users, and cloud applications,” Nadkarni said. “These tools weren’t built for the hybrid world where employees are constantly going back and forth between corporate offices and remote workspaces. Aryaka Universal ZTNA was designed to deliver a consistent experience for employees no matter where they are – fully remote, in the office, or a hybrid combination of the two. The capability enables organizations to enforce consistent, identity and posture-based access control across all edges of Aryaka’s Zero Trust WAN, including users, apps, and locations. It doesn’t matter where users are located – enterprises can enforce the same policies and controls across their entire network.”
Aryaka Universal ZTNA also enables Zero Trust access to any app from anywhere. The new feature, offered natively as part of Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0, enforces consistent, identity and posture-based access control across all edges of Aryaka’s Zero Trust WAN, including users, apps, and locations. As a result, enterprises gain full visibility and control over application access, reduce reliance on legacy VPNs, minimize risk from lateral movement, and simplify policy enforcement through Aryaka’s unified platform.
The company has also introduced Aryaka AI>Secure as part of its Unified SASE as a Service 2.0 platform. The feature further advances Aryaka’s mission to help organizations support and accelerate GenAI adoption, complementing the platform’s previously announced AI>Observe and AI>Perform capabilities.
“AI>Secure is Aryaka’s advanced AI security capability built to protect enterprises from AI-driven threats, like prompt injections, knowledge leakage, and shadow AI,” Nadkarni said. “It comes after Aryaka previously introduced AI>Perform and AI>Observe, which improve performance of AI apps and give organizations better visibility over those apps. AI>Secure equips organizations to mitigate all the risks inherent in AI deployments. Traditional tools lack security controls and don’t have visibility into Gen AI workloads, creating major gaps that can jeopardize enterprises.” AI>Secure will be available in Q1 2026.
Enterprises face new risks with the adoption of GenAI applications, including unsanctioned shadow AI usage, knowledge leakage, and new attack surfaces to protect. With nearly 70% of IT leaders citing AI-related scaling and security challenges, Aryaka’s new AI>Secure capability extends the benefits of convergence into the GenAI era, protecting innovation as enterprises adopt new models and tools. AI>Secure protects enterprises by securing employee access to public GenAI apps and safeguarding internal GenAI services. It blocks prompt injections, token flooding, malicious code, URL, and jailbreaks, while enforcing content-safety and sentiment controls. With centralized policy enforcement, real-time monitoring, and intelligent traffic classification, AI>Secure helps enterprises securely innovate with AI by identifying and eliminating Shadow AI, protecting against knowledge leakage, reducing GenAI-specific security risks, and maintaining compliance in an evolving threat landscape.
Aryaka Next-Gen DLP delivers advanced data loss prevention: Aryaka Next-Gen Data Loss Prevention (DLP) leverages AI-powered natural language processing, granular policy tuning, and contextual pattern recognition to protect data in motion between networks, applications, locations, and users. Enterprises gain real-time visibility into sensitive data flows, stop data loss at the source, and meet compliance requirements with less operational overhead.
GenAI Traffic protects and empowers all generative AI interactions. Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 ensures that every GenAI traffic flow – spanning SaaS, cloud AI services, and legacy apps – are zero trust secured and high-performance from first mile to last.
The refreshed My Aryaka home page simplifies visibility and policy enforcement: The convergence of network and security necessitates the user experience to cater to multiple personas. The platform’s updated My Aryaka home page enhances efficiency and expedites access to essential information. The improved landing page provides instant visibility into critical network and security data, helping teams save valuable time and effort.
Nadkarni said the channel implications of Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 are significant.
“That’s where Aryaka AI>Secure comes in,” she said. “It takes a proactive approach by inspecting and validating GenAI traffic from end-to-end over Aryaka’s Zero Trust WAN. This means no more blind spots in your AI traffic. It ensures compliance, enforces policies, reduces the risk of data breaches, and gives you full visibility, all seamlessly integrated as part of Unified SASE 2.0. It’s a game-changer when it comes to securing your AI environment.”
Aryaka Unified SASE 2.0 gives channel partners an even stronger, simpler way to deliver converged networking and security to their clients. The platform introduces significant new features (like Universal ZTNA, AI>Secure, and Next-Gen DLP) that are all integrated as part of the service. Channel partners and MSPs will now have a single solution that enables them to deliver networking and security – all available as part of a single, intuitive platform with a single vendor. SASE 2.0 as a Service has been designed for maximum simplicity. It’s easy to deploy and makes it possible to leverage different capabilities only as their customers need them.