» COVER FEATURE
TOWARDS PERVASIVE SECURITY
SASE redefines network security through, enabling organizations to deliver and manage network and security services with more agility and scalability
– By R. Narayan
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CXO DX / NOVEMBER 2020
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ASE or Secure Access Service Edge, a term coined by Gartner in 2019, has been redefining the market’s approach to network security in the cloud era, where the limitations of conventional network security have been exposed. In the wake of traditional network perimeters disappearing and the need to secure the edge of the networks, SASE converges elements of networking and security into a unified whole. Leading vendors seem to have embraced this approach and while the approaches seem to vary from vendor to vendor, yet there are features in common to the solutions that endorses SASE as the direction ahead. SASE is about delivering pervasive security in a cloud delivered model across distributed networks. SASE vendors come from different backgrounds of the network and security spectrum, from SD WAN vendors to Firewall vendors, SDN vendors etc.
