How single-vendor SASE can deliver better security results

<p>For many organizations, secure access service edge has become a critical initiative to modernize their network and security approaches to better support hybrid work, cloud-centric environments and generative AI application use. Yet even six years after <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/The-complete-Secure-Access-Service-Edge-SASE-guide”>SASE</a> was introduced as a concept, many organizations still have difficulty seeing themselves deploy a truly unified, single-vendor SASE architecture.</p>
<p>This is not for lack of effort within the vendor community. Over the last few years, there has been significant focus on evangelizing single-vendor strategies. But customer reception has been lukewarm in some cases. In fact, <a target=”_blank” href=”https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/515201696/Toc” rel=”noopener”>2023 research from Omdia</a>, a division of Informa TechTarget, found that only 2% of organizations expected to use a single SASE vendor when their initiative was complete, while 13% expected to use two, leaving 83% that anticipated using three or more vendors for SASE.</p>
<p>Fast-forward to 2025 and the numbers look slightly better, but the overall trend remains. Specifically, <a target=”_blank” href=”https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/515202096/Toc” rel=”noopener”>Omdia research</a> found that 17% expect to use one SASE vendor and 24% expect to use two. Still, a majority of organizations (58%) anticipate using three or more vendors.</p>
<p>Considering the reality most enterprises face regarding their network and security infrastructure, these numbers are understandable. Historically, organizations have likely used separate vendors for networking, firewall, secure web gateway, secure access, cloud security, data security, etc. The idea of standardizing on one or even two vendors can seem impossible when the starting point is five or more technology providers.</p>
<p>Yet beyond that general sentiment, when we asked specifically why organizations expected to use either one vendor or multiple vendors for SASE, a misconception seemed to emerge. Among those that expect to use multiple vendors for SASE, more than two-thirds (69%) said they would do so for <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/tip/The-top-5-benefits-of-SASE-and-some-drawbacks”>better security efficacy</a>, while an additional 42% ci

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