Converge Networking And Security With The Right SASE
Cisco News, Tuesday, July 18,2023
A major transition in IT philosophy is underway. It's a shift away from separate networking and security operational silos, tools, and management dashboards, and movement toward the convergence of policies, technologies, tools, and operational workflows based on a cloud-centric operating model.
As part of this transition, secure access service edge (SASE) is becoming a leading convergence architecture of choice for secure multicloud access. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report found that 47% of 2,577 respondents globally plan to connect their branches and remote clients using a SASE model by 2025.
However, not all SASEs are created equal. Primarily delivered as a service, SASE can be deployed as a collection of modular or disaggregated components, with separate software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), next-generation firewall (NGFW), and other security solutions that comprise a cloud-based secure service edge (SSE). Or SASE can be delivered as a unified, pre-integrated software-as-a-service (SaaS) that gives admins a highly simplified and unified way to achieve a SASE environment and manage secure, multicloud access to applications by employees end to end, wherever they choose to work.
Here's why networking and security convergence is such a winning strategy and how to choose among disaggregated, modular, and unified SASE solution