Zenarmor®, the network security company behind the ONE.APP.SASE™ unified SASE platform, today announced that Zenarmor SASE has won the 2026 SASE Product of the Year Award presented by TMC and Cloud Computing magazine.
The award recognizes Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions that combine scalable network security, optimized network performance, and centralized security policy management. In its official announcement, TMC highlighted Zenarmor’s Single-App, Single-Stack, Single-Pass architecture for unifying networking and security across endpoints, network edges, gateways, and cloud environments.
TMC cited Zenarmor’s unified networking and security architecture as a key reason for the recognition.
“Congratulations to Zenarmor for being named a 2026 SASE Product of the Year Award winner,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC. “Zenarmor’s ONE.APP.SASE is the industry’s first Single-App, Single-Stack, Single-Pass platform, unifying networking and security across endpoint, edge, and cloud. They are setting the standard for innovation and excellence. I am excited to celebrate their achievements and look forward to their continued leadership in delivering cutting-edge solutions to the market.”
The recognition comes as enterprises evaluate a key architectural question in SASE adoption: Who controls where network traffic is inspected, where security policies are enforced, and where sensitive data is processed? These decisions can affect data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, latency, operational visibility, and control over the security infrastructure.
Traditional cloud-delivered SASE architectures often redirect network traffic to vendor-operated points of presence (PoPs) for security inspection and policy enforcement. Although this model can simplify cloud security delivery, it may place sensitive traffic within third-party infrastructure, create uncertainty about data-processing locations and jurisdiction, and make security enforcement dependent on infrastructure outside the organization’s direct control.
Zenarmor takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of sending traffic to a vendor-controlled inspection cloud, Zenarmor brings the complete enforcement and inspection engine directly to the environments where users, devices, and workloads operate. Security can run on an endpoint, at the network edge, or within the customer’s own cloud environment. Organizations determine where inspection and enforcement take place. TLS decryption and traffic inspection can occur locally within customer-defined boundaries, without requiring sensitive traffic to enter a third-party cloud solely for security processing.
“Our goal has always been to make sophisticated network security radically simple, but simplicity cannot come at the cost of sovereignty,” said Murat Balaban, Founder and CEO of Zenarmor. “Traditional SASE architectures require organizations to send their traffic through vendor-operated infrastructure for inspection and policy enforcement. This can limit direct control over where sensitive traffic is processed and which jurisdictions apply. Sovereignty must be built into the architecture, not addressed later through contracts or assurances about where a PoP is located. With Zenarmor, customers decide where inspection and enforcement happen. They gain centralized security control without surrendering control of their traffic, infrastructure, or data boundaries.”
Sovereignty by Design
Built on the Zenarmor SASE Anywhere Architecture™, the platform centralizes policies, configurations, visibility, and monitoring through Zenconsole™, while keeping inspection and enforcement distributed across endpoints, gateways, cloud environments, and other customer-controlled infrastructure. Organizations do not have to choose between unified security operations and control over where their traffic is processed.
This sovereign-by-design model gives organizations greater control over:
- Where security inspection and TLS decryption occur
- Whether sensitive traffic enters third-party infrastructure
- Which geographic or jurisdictional boundaries apply to security processing
- How security policies are enforced across distributed environments
- How dependent their security operations are on vendor-operated PoPs
For organizations in regulated industries, the public sector, critical infrastructure, and regions with strict data residency requirements, this architectural control can help support privacy, regulatory compliance, data residency, and digital sovereignty objectives.
Built on the same architecture, Zenarmor brings Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Web Gateway, CASB, NGFW, TLS inspection, DNS security, and inline threat prevention together within one application, one integrated security stack, and one inspection pass.
The Single-App, Single-Stack, Single-Pass design brings networking and security functions together within one integrated engine and unified policy framework. The platform runs natively across endpoints, gateways, cloud environments, virtual and bare-metal infrastructure, and containers, with centralized management and visibility through Zenconsole. Organizations can deploy in minutes without redesigning their networks or becoming dependent on a vendor’s global PoP infrastructure. Security follows users and workloads, while the organization retains control over where traffic is inspected and how policies are enforced.
For MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs, and other service providers, Zenarmor provides the same distributed architecture with multi-tenant management, pooled licensing, and flexible deployment across customer environments. Partners can deliver managed security aligned with each customer’s infrastructure, jurisdiction, and data residency requirements, without requiring customer traffic to be processed through shared, vendor-controlled inspection infrastructure.
Zenarmor’s approach reflects a simple architectural principle: Modern work happens everywhere, so security should run everywhere too, while control of the data remains where it belongs. To learn more about Zenarmor’s distributed SASE architecture, visit zenarmor.com/innovation.
Read TMC’s full announcement: TMCnet Names Zenarmor a 2026 SASE Product of the Year Award Winner at https://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/breaking-news/articles/463990-tmcnet-names-zenarmor-2026-sase-product-the-year.htm.
About TMC
For more than 20 years, TMC has honored technology companies with awards across a range of categories. Winners represent prominent market participants that consistently demonstrate the advancement of communications and information technologies.
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About Zenarmor
Zenarmor delivers unified, sovereign-by-design network security to more than 500,000 users across 25,000+ inspection edges in 180 countries. Trusted by thousands of customers worldwide, Zenarmor’s ONE.APP.SASE™ is a Single-App, Single-Stack, Single-Pass Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that unifies networking and security across endpoints, gateways, edge infrastructure, and cloud environments. Zenarmor official website
Built on the Zenarmor SASE Anywhere Architecture™, the platform brings inline traffic inspection, Zero Trust enforcement, threat protection, and centralized security policy management directly to the point of access. Unlike cloud-centric SASE models that backhaul traffic through vendor-operated points of presence, Zenarmor allows organizations to determine where security processing and policy enforcement occur. This distributed architecture helps organizations maintain control over network traffic, infrastructure, data residency, processing jurisdiction, and digital sovereignty.
Zenarmor can run across endpoints, physical and virtual gateways, cloud workloads, containers, and bare-metal infrastructure. Supported environments include Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD-based firewalls, OpenWrt, Debian Linux, and Amazon Linux. Gateways and endpoints can be centrally managed through Zenconsole™, providing organization-wide visibility into network activity, application usage, security events, devices, users, and Zero Trust traffic. Zenarmor deployment documentation
Founded in 2017, Zenarmor is a venture-backed cybersecurity company headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., with a European office in Frankfurt, Germany. The company serves enterprises, MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs, distributed organizations, and other service providers that require scalable SASE, centralized network visibility, flexible security deployment, and control over where sensitive traffic is inspected. For more information, visit www.zenarmor.com.
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