Aryaka wins global SASE award & G2 leader for customer focus
The company was awarded Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Global SASE Enabling Technology Leadership Award, which highlights its role in the growing secure access service edge (SASE) market. In a separate measure of user feedback, Aryaka was named a Grid Leader for both SASE and SD-WAN categories in the G2 Summer 2025 Reports, reflecting strong customer satisfaction and a notable market position.
Frost & Sullivan highlighted several areas of Aryaka's operations in their award, including customer-centric innovation, the flexibility of its service delivery, straightforward pricing structure, emphasis on artificial intelligence, and a clear approach to product development. Cladio Stahnke, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, stated: "Aryaka's customer impact is rooted in the notion that the best technologies must translate into tangible, repeatable business outcomes. The company's client base, which includes some of the most demanding global enterprises, has shown strong adoption of Aryaka native services, reflecting trust in its security, performance, and managed delivery capabilities."
Ken Rutsky, Chief Marketing Officer at Aryaka, commented on the awards: "These latest recognitions further validate Aryaka as the leader in delivering a single vendor, unified, and managed SASE experience. Other players in security and networking offer pieced together solutions with multiple dashboards and service levels that can't match ours. Aryaka's fully integrated Unified SASE as a Service gives customers a wide breadth of networking and security capabilities in a single platform, while delivering operational simplicity, effectiveness, and agility across both networking and security. We are thrilled to be recognized by both analysts and customers for this leadership."
G2's rankings are based on verified customer reviews and reflect Aryaka's position as Grid Leader for both SASE and SD-WAN solutions. According to the company, Aryaka placed first in its SASE category for customer satisfaction, ease of use, and quality of support, surpassing a number of competitors. In the SD-WAN segment, Aryaka was among the leading companies from a pool of over 80 vendors, indicating demand from global enterprises for its secure, high-performance connectivity solutions.
Feedback from Aryaka users emphasised operational simplification, improved network visibility, and reduced management complexity. Key evaluation metrics such as "Ease of Doing Business With" and "Performance and Reliability" were consistently highlighted in positive reviews. Reviewers repeatedly cited the company's ability to deliver a unified set of networking and security tools on a single platform as a distinct advantage, noting measurable improvements in day-to-day administrative workloads and responsiveness to enterprise needs.
Aryaka's recognition in these reports comes as organisations continue to address challenges in the integration of networking and security functions, particularly regarding the complexities associated with modern SASE deployments. The company has indicated that forthcoming independent research will address these challenges, including data on the growing trend towards vendor consolidation among enterprises seeking simpler and more manageable security architecture.
The ongoing industry shift towards SASE adoption and the integration of networking and security has led companies to seek simplified vendor relationships and unified service delivery. Aryaka's performance in both analyst evaluations and customer surveys suggests an alignment with these industry requirements, underlining its focus on managed service delivery and single-vendor solutions for enterprise customers.
Both the Frost & Sullivan award and the G2 rankings were driven by direct customer impact and product capabilities, providing external validation for Aryaka's approach to secure network connectivity and service management.
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