Why Your Organization Needs to Adopt the SASE Model
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), pronounced “sassy,” is a new cloud-based network security model proposed by research firm Gartner that combines multiple network technologies delivered as a service including SWG, CASB, FWaaS and ZTNA with WAN capabilities (i.e., SDWAN) to support dynamic secure access to organizational assets. This new model allows IT security teams to easily connect and secure all of their organization’s networks and usersin an agile, cost-effective and scalable way.
As organizations continue to drive compute workloads to the cloud and mobile devices proliferate, edge computing is changing access requirements with billions of connected devices requiring cloud services and on-premises resources. At the same time, more users, devices, applications, services and data are being generated and located outside of an organization than inside.
Traditional network security architectures that typically place enterprise data centers at the center of IT resources are also becoming roadblocks to the dynamic access requirements of digital businesses and edge computing scenarios as cloud-native technologies require more dynamic and agile identity and access resources to secure workloads and data.
With numerous cybersecurity and network security solutions offered across a highly segmented market space, too many security services and categories are complicating what should be an integrated approach to an organization’s network security environment. The
entire cybersecurity vendor community needs to come together and provide a holistic approach to cybersecurity, and this is where the concept of Secure Access Service Edge or SASE comes in.