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Aryaka®, the pioneer in Unified SASE as a Service announced new personnel and program investments in its commitment to delivering performance, agility, simplicity, and security across customers' global networks. The company has promoted Vidyaranya Maddi to Chief Customer Officer and hired Scott Fanning, formerly of Palo Alto Networks, as VP of Security Product Management. Aryaka also announced the launch of the Aryaka Cyber Threat Research Lab (CTRL), a proactive research center committed to the identification, analysis, and mitigation of emergent network security risks and threats.  Maddi to head customer success teams A Gartner Peer Insights rating of 4.7 out of 5, exemplifying Aryaka’s reputation as an industry pioneer Vidyaranya Maddi, a pioneer at Aryaka for over 12 years, has been named Chief Customer Officer. Over the past decade, Maddi has spearheaded Aryaka’s global delivery and support functions, transforming customers’ networks and network security. His efforts have contributed to an average customer tenure of over eight years and a Gartner Peer Insights rating of 4.7 out of 5, exemplifying Aryaka’s reputation as an industry pioneer. In his expanded role, Maddi will oversee the entire customer success function, team, and experience, ensuring seamless interactions and value delivery across all touchpoints. Customer Success Management (CSM) function “Delivering outstanding service to our customers has always been at the heart of Aryaka’s mission,” said Maddi. “Over the years, I’ve seen our customer-first culture and innovative solution offerings create meaningful impact for our customers. My focus now is to further enhance our Customer Success Management (CSM) function, ensuring we anticipate and meet customer needs throughout their entire secure networking journey.” Customer-centric culture "Today marks a significant step forward in Aryaka's journey to deliver secure, dependable, and performant applications,” said Shailesh Shukla, CEO, of  Aryaka. “Maddi's promotion to Chief Customer Officer underscores Aryaka’s dedication to fostering a customer-centric culture and delivering superior value to our global customers.” Fanning to drive product advancement Scott Fanning will join the team to accelerate the advancement of Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a Service A seasoned cybersecurity pioneer with over 25 years of experience, Scott Fanning will join the team to accelerate the advancement of Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a Service, leveraging Aryaka's OnePass architecture to offer unique and differentiated ways to address ever-expanding threats and new attack surfaces introduced with the AI adoption. Fanning brings first-hand experience in pioneering innovative approaches to solving new security problems. Fanning joins Aryaka from Palo Alto Networks, where he led the team for Cloud-Delivered Security Services. Scott's work experience Before that, he was the first Head of Product for cloud security at CrowdStrike, where he delivered their pioneering Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). His career also includes managing cybersecurity products and services for Citrix and McAfee, and more than a decade at Cisco in various security engineering and product management roles. SASE as a Service Platform “The security landscape is evolving rapidly, with adversaries leveraging AI to exploit gaps in enterprise defenses,” said Fanning. “Aryaka’s Unified SASE as a Service Platform delivers unparalleled observability, consolidating siloed tools to close these gaps and protect customers from advanced threats. I am thrilled to join this talented team to help our customers worldwide stay ahead of adversaries by empowering them with innovative, pioneering-edge security solutions.” Aryaka CTRL ensures the advancement of Unified SASE CTRL will ensure Aryaka’s solutions continue to deliver state-of-the-art defenses against advanced threats Under the leadership of Aditya Sood, VP of Security Engineering and AI Strategy and author of the newly released Combating Cyberattacks Targeting the AI Ecosystem, the Aryaka CTRL team will conduct proactive research to analyze data and stay ahead of the latest threats. By prioritizing real-world threat evaluations and collaborating with industry threat research groups, CTRL will ensure Aryaka’s solutions continue to deliver state-of-the-art defenses against advanced threats.  Built-in network layer controls “The launch of Aryaka CTRL underscores Aryaka’s commitment to providing effective and actionable defenses to our customers, already delivered through built-in network layer controls embedded in our OnePASS architecture,” said Renuka Nadkarni, Chief Product Officer, Aryaka. “Proactive research and threat intelligence by CTRL and adding Scott's deep expertise to the team will continue to fuel Unified SASE as a Service innovation to deliver unparalleled protection against evolving cyberattacks, including ones targeting GenAI implementations.” Leveraging AI “This announcement underscores our investment and dedication to ensuring our solutions remain at the forefront of secure networking in the emerging AI era,” Shukla added. “These strategic moves reinforce Aryaka's position as the pioneer in Unified SASE as a Service and empower us to deliver the most secure, agile, and customer-centric solutions on the market.”

Aryaka®, the front-runner in fully managed Cloud-First WAN and SASE solutions, announced that it has acquired Secucloud GmbH, a proven SASE platform provider, delivering network security from the cloud. The deal closed in late April 2021, and Secucloud is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aryaka. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Secucloud GmbH offers an innovative platform designed to provide an all-in-one, global, cloud-based firewall-as-a-service, secure web gateway with advanced threat protection capabilities. The platform is engineered to connect all edges including WAN, Cloud, Mobile and IoT securely together. SASE is paramount in a Cloud-First World The COVID Pandemic has accelerated the adoption of “Cloud-First” architectures. The consumption of network and network security “as-a-service” has driven the need for increased convergence and led to changes in buying behaviors and architectural shifts. Gartner calls this architecture Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and predicts the SASE market will grow from $4.5B in 2021 to $10.9B in 2024, a 42% CAGR. According to Aryaka’s 2021 State of the WAN report, which surveyed over 1,300 global enterprises, SASE deployment plans are accelerating, with 29 percent of enterprises stating that they are already deploying what they consider to be a SASE architecture. Another 56 percent are planning to deploy a SASE architecture in the next 12-24 months, which speaks to the strong interest and momentum for SASE. Only 12 percent plan to rely on their security vendor to provide all WAN components. Authority comments Aryaka has gained increasing traction with network security and private access offerings delivered as-a-service “Secucloud brings a great team and proven, innovative technology that we can integrate with Aryaka’s industry leading, Cloud-First, SD-WAN as-a-service,” said Ashwath Nagaraj, Co-Founder and CTO at Aryaka. “The combined technologies will allow us to offer truly converged network and network security as-a-service offerings. It complements our existing portfolio and significantly enhances Aryaka’s ability to compete and win larger deals while delivering the industry’s most flexible, managed SASE solution experience.” “We are excited to join Aryaka. Like Aryaka, Secucloud has been designed from the ground up to deliver a Cloud-First architecture with everything delivered as-a-service,” said Dennis Monner, CEO of Secucloud. “We think this joint solution and Aryaka’s brand reputation of delivering the industry’s best customer experience, will create a highly differentiated offering for enterprise customers.” Existing network security solutions The acquisition complements existing network security solutions that Aryaka offers with other technology partners like Check Point Software, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and others, delivering choice to enterprise customers for a variety of deployment use cases. In the past year, Aryaka has gained increasing traction with network security and private access offerings delivered as-a-service, netting large multi-million-dollar subscription deals that include security-sensitive financial services companies, and enabling enterprises to deploy hybrid workplaces for tens of thousands of “anywhere” workers.