There are several valuable features. First, it's extremely easy to deploy and configure. Second, the performance is greater than a standard VPN. In addition, it's a secure connection to where a connection is needed. All of our retail resides in Azure and because Atmos is deployed throughout the world, our stores on-ramp at the closest internet provider. That means they on-ramp at the closest AWS, Google, Oracle, or Azure site, and then they use the high speed that those providers give us to get to our Azure tenant. It's much faster than running a standard ISP and running it back to your data center and then back out to Azure. It's also quite easy to configure Atmos's interface to provide a single pane of glass for ZTNA, secure web gateway, and cloud access security brokers. Through access roles, I have networking folks do the networking they need to do, and the security people have access to it for their portion of it. For example, they determine which websites you're allowed to go to. Another great aspect is that it can be used for troubleshooting purposes. If one of our stores has issues, we can look at it and see where other iPads in the store are connecting and what their traffic is. At that point, we know the issue isn't with the store or the access, it's with that specific iPad. Or sometimes security wants to see where people are going. They may want to look at the traffic to see if there are websites that they're not blocking and that people spend a lot of time on. If those sites are not sites we would normally block, but we don't want people spending a lot of time on non-work-related sites, they can block them. It has many tools, it's quite easy to configure, and you can configure it for your different organizations. I quite like it. I would give it an A-plus for securing access to our applications, devices, and network. It does an extremely good job. Our security folks have analyzed it and tried to find loopholes, but they found none. I give it another A-plus on its ability to support a variety of ports and protocols. We have some extremely old latency-type programs that we're able to make work through Atmos. And all of our newer stuff works as well. The fact that it's flexible with both modern applications and the older stuff is a big plus. And it gets an A-plus again when it comes to establishing trust for every access request, no matter where it comes from. The tool has many ways of doing that as well; for example, certificates and trusted devices. It's beautiful that we don't have to worry about it. That's not to say that we don't monitor it, but it's very nice to look at a tool and know that it's as secure as it can get. It's more secure than a standard VPN that we would have used for our stores. The fact that Atmos simplifies access management, while it's not a 100 percent must-have, it's a very nice aspect. It reduces the learning curve for any new staff we may hire. It's a plus in that area, but it wasn't a deciding factor in our choosing to go with the tool.
