
1. Technology overview
Aryaka Networks is a Santa Clara, California company founded in 2009 that delivers networking and security as one managed service. It addresses the performance and security gaps global enterprises face when connecting branches, factories, remote users and cloud applications across regions such as Asia-Pacific, and serves hundreds of enterprises including several Fortune 100 firms.
Unified SASE as a Service runs on Aryaka's Zero Trust WAN, a private global backbone with more than 40 points of presence reaching 95% of the world's business population at under 30 ms latency. It converges SD-WAN, WAN optimization, next-generation firewall, secure web gateway, Universal ZTNA and secure remote access, with observability in the My Aryaka portal. Version 2.0, announced in November 2025, adds AI>Secure to protect employee use of GenAI apps against prompt injection, shadow AI and data leakage, plus AI-based DLP. Customers choose self-managed, co-managed or fully managed operation.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Zero Trust WAN: Connects sites over a private global backbone with more than 40 points of presence.
- Universal ZTNA: Grants identity- and posture-based access to any application for users anywhere.
- Integrated security stack: Delivers next-generation firewall, secure web gateway and threat detection in the service.
- AI>Secure: Protects GenAI usage against prompt injection, jailbreaks, shadow AI and knowledge leakage.
- Next-Gen DLP: Uses AI-based language processing to protect sensitive data in motion.
- Observability: The My Aryaka portal shows network and security data for different IT roles.
3. Potential application
A foreign-invested factory in Vietnam can link its plant to headquarters and SAP or Microsoft 365 over the private backbone with built-in firewall. A professional services firm can replace VPNs with Universal ZTNA for consultants. An enterprise rolling out GenAI tools can monitor and control what data employees send to them.
4. Benefits
One managed service replaces separate SD-WAN, firewall, web gateway and VPN products, reducing multi-vendor complexity. The private backbone gives predictable application performance between Asia and other regions, with sub-30 ms reach to most business locations. Universal ZTNA limits lateral movement compared with legacy VPNs. Flexible management models let lean IT teams outsource operations.
5. Market trends & opportunities
Enterprises are converging networking and security into SASE as cloud, SaaS and GenAI use grow and multi-vendor stacks become hard to run. Asia-Pacific links are often where performance and security break down for multinational firms, which matters for manufacturers and service companies in Vietnam connecting to regional and global headquarters.
6. Other information
Aryaka Networks was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with more than 500 customers. In 2026 it won Best in Remote Access Protection at the CybersecAsia Readers' Choice Awards in Singapore, was a 2026 SC Awards finalist and a G2 Grid Leader for SASE and SD-WAN. It partners with TD SYNNEX (July 2025) and launched a new channel program in October 2025. Holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2.
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