{"id":37934,"date":"2020-10-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/whos-selling-sase-and-what-do-you-get\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T09:00:00","slug":"whos-selling-sase-and-what-do-you-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/whos-selling-sase-and-what-do-you-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s selling SASE and what do you get?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources, but it\u2019s still in its infancy. Vendors and service providers sell offerings that they call SASE, but what they actually provide and how they provide it varies widely.<\/p>\n

SASE<\/a>\u2014pronounced \u201csassy\u201d- is a term coined last year by Gartner, and it combines software-defined WAN (SD-WAN)<\/a> with access control and security, all bundled as a cloud service.<\/p>\n

SASE is expected to grow significantly and rapidly, with Dell\u2019Oro Group projecting it to have a compounded annual growth rate of 116% from 2019 to 2024. And the COVID-19 crisis has \u201cabsolutely\u201d accelerated that momentum, says Gartner analyst Nat Smith. Gartner, which projects that 60% of SD-WAN customers will have moved to SASE by 2024, compared with about 35% in 2020.<\/p>\n

Potential benefits include easier network and security management, flexibility to scale up or down as business needs require, and lower costs. \u201cSASE is one of those technologies that gives you the ability to be able to better handle disruptions in the future,\u201d Smith says.<\/p>\n

Gartner presents a lengthy list of technologies and features that might be included in a SASE service including latency optimization, routing, caching, deduplication and geographic restrictions. On the security side, Gartner includes data loss prevention, web application firewalls, threat detection, encryption, and remote browser isolation among others.<\/p>\n

There is no minimum set of these elements that must be included in order for a service to be considered true SASE, says Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a framework than an architecture,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you\u2019re going through a checklist, then you\u2019re missing what SASE is about. It\u2019s more about evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n