We won the Best SASE Solution category at the 2024 SC Awards for adam:ONE®. The SC Awards have run for 27 years.
For this category, the judges looked for solutions that combine SASE, wide area networking (WAN) and network security services into a single cloud offering, with policy-based access to the right application or data wherever the user or device is. adam:ONE provides network security, privacy and content protection in critical infrastructure, education, financial, manufacturing and medical deployments, for both SMB and enterprise networks.
“Achieving this recognition by the SC Awards is momentous and it is refreshing to see the industry awaken the value of the technology we built. Adam:ONE has the ability to provide true proactive protection from any attack vectors that use internet connectivity as part of the attack chain,” said David Redekop, CEO and Co-Founder of ADAMnetworks. “We look forward to continuing to make the Internet a better place by challenging the traditional ‘trust by default, deny threats that you can discover’ philosophy that is constantly being exploited, and instead establishing a more secure foundation of ‘deny by default, only allow verified connections.’”
What the judges evaluated
adam:ONE applies Zero Trust Connectivity (ZTc) at the network edge, so any device that can reach the internet passes through the same policy. A few parts of the platform do most of the work:
- DTTS® (Don’t Talk to Strangers) denies every connection unless a DNS lookup resolved the destination and policy approved it.
- AI-driven dynamic allowlisting tracks what is good rather than what is bad, and only verified connections are allowed.
- DNSharmony® aggregates threat intelligence from multiple sources at the connection edge.
- The muscle-brain hybrid configuration runs enforcement decentralized while control stays central, which removes the single point of failure and the bottleneck of a cloud-only service.
- adam:GO™, adam:APN™ and adam:OSN™ apply the same service edge to mobile and roaming devices, wherever and however they connect.
adam:ONE also handles security hardening and content filtering, and integrates with SIEM tools and with cloud and on-premise network architecture. The technical brief and how it works cover the design in more detail.
From a partner
Jaco Kamffer, an IT consultant and POD Leader of a multi-national MSP group, has run ADAMnetworks on his networks for more than five years:
“After more than five years of relying on ADAMnetworks as their technology matured, I can confidently say that our network has remained malware- and breach-free. The solution has successfully plugged vulnerabilities left by previous products, providing a robust defense against unknown threats. The zero-trust model ensures my network is shielded from even the most sophisticated exploits,” said Kamffer. “Meanwhile, the dashboard continues to evolve and simplify its user interface. The support team behind ADAMnetworks has been exceptional in helping me understand and protect my networks. I’m committed to continuing our partnership for years to come.”
A week later, adam:ONE was also named SASE Solution of the Year in the 2024 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards.
