Scott Raynovich, Founder and Principal Analyst. An Introduction to SASE Secure access service edge (SASE) is a concept initiated by analyst research firm Gartner Inc. in 2019 as part of the technology “hype cycle. ” Recently, SASE has been embraced by the customer and vendor community more readily to solve a variety of modern networking and security challenges. Enterprises and service providers are hungry for new models for deploying enterprise, branch, and cloud-based security services because of the growing threats and gaps. As we’ll explain, software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is closely related to SASE because it helps SASE implementation run faster and more securely.

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