SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), pronounced “sassy”, is a cloud-native technology that Gartner defined in 2019. SASE establishes network security as an integral, embedded function of the network fabric.
SASE supplants legacy services offered by single-purpose point-solutions located in location-locked corporate premises such as data centers.
The SASE framework can help organizations simplify their IT infrastructure, advance their threat prevention, better protect their data, implement flexible solutions, easily connect users and devices wherever they are located, and reduce total costs.
SASE also provides a Zero Trust approach to the cloud, which validates users and device access to applications anywhere in the world. SASE provides complete application session protection, whether a user is inside or outside the corporate network.
The rigid network infrastructures of the past are not sufficient in today’s IT landscape where data is stored in the cloud and on various devices. Numerous trends emerged when organizations first began their digital transformation. As a result, the culmination of these trends led to the creation of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology. Digital transformation trends that led to SASE include: