Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) represents the dawn of a new era for enterprise security. Since its introduction by Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and Joe Skorupa, SASE has been hailed as the future of network connectivity. Data centers were the go-to solution for WAN connectivity and security in the past. However, with the proliferation of cloud-based solutions combined with an untethered work environment, the traditional network security we were familiar with is no longer a viable option. SASE addresses these issues by providing an approach to combine network connectivity and network security functions. On the endpoint side, this aids in delivering a cloud-native solution to WAN security that eliminates the requirement for security to be run through a centralized data center.
SASE has been gaining traction since its establishment in 2019; nevertheless, we saw an accelerated increase in the SASE market in the aftermath of the worldwide pandemic. On-premises solutions and networks with perimeters started to make no sense when the whole workforce was scattered worldwide. SASE solves this by bringing security to the user via the cloud, making it one of the most promising examples of edge computing. As a direct result of the pandemic, the worldwide SASE market, which was already gaining steam, experienced exponentially accelerated growth almost overnight. According to the Dell’Oro group, the SASE industry will rise to $5 billion per year by 2024. This article has been indexed from DZone Security Zone