Name: SASE Outlook 2024: Top 5 Predictions and Trends
Start: 2024-05-22T18:00:00Z
End: 2024-05-22T18:00:53.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market is evolving fast—and 2025 is set to be a pivotal year. Join our exclusive webinar where Fortinet cybersecurity experts unveil five major trends redefining how enterprises secure their hybrid workforce.
 
Join us for key takeaways, such as:
• The top SASE market trends and technologies for 2025
• How modern organizations are transforming security strategies with Unified SASE
• A preview of upcoming Fortinet innovations that boost performance, security, and cost-efficiency
• Expert insights on simplifying operations, lowering TCO, and gaining full visibility across distributed networks

Gain a competitive edge by understanding where the SASE market is heading and how to prepare your organization today.
 
From finance to healthcare to government—if you're leading or influencing networking and security decisions, this session is built for you.

Shaping Hybrid Workforce Security with SASE today and tomorrow

In today's rapidly evolving threat landscape, the Chief Information Security Officer's role has undergone dramatic transformation. This month’s CISO Insights episode explores how the CISO position has evolved beyond traditional security management into a strategic business function with expanded responsibilities and challenges.

Key discussion points will include:
- The expanding scope of CISO responsibilities in 2025
- Balancing security imperatives with business innovation demands
- Managing board-level expectations and communication
- Predictions for the next evolution of the CISO role
- Addressing the cybersecurity talent shortage effectively
- Strategies for maintaining relevance in AI-driven security environments
- Building resilient security cultures across distributed organizations

Join our panel of veteran security leaders as they share candid insights about the changing dynamics of the CISO position, offering practical wisdom for both established security executives and those aspiring to the role.

The Changing Role of the CISO — for Better or Worse

Explore how SASE, GenAI, and ZTNA are transforming the cybersecurity landscape 
 
In this webcast, our featured speaker Neil McDonald, Gartner® VP and Distinguished Analyst with Fortinet will discuss the latest strategies for protecting organizations in a rapidly changing network environment. 

Join this timely session to better understand: 

• The benefits of platform consolidation and sovereignty
• How SASE architecture supports seamless connectivity
• The crucial role of ZTNA
• How GenAI is reshaping cybersecurity

The Road Ahead to SASE: Insights from Fortinet and Gartner®

Join our comprehensive presentation to demystify Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and its foundational components. Alexandra Mehat, Product Marketing Director at Fortinet, will guide you through the evolution from traditional network security to SASE, offering a clear breakdown of key concepts such as Security Service Edge (SSE), single-vendor SASE, and Unified SASE. Discover how Fortinet Unified SASE can streamline your security strategy and enhance your defenses in today’s complex hybrid work environment. Learn how to leverage SASE for consistent security across distributed locations, secure cloud applications, and robust protection of data in an increasingly dynamic cloud ecosystem.

Simplifying Security: Understanding SASE Fundamentals

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, CISOs and CIOs face unprecedented challenges in securing their networks, data, and operations for hybrid work. Join Neil MacDonald, VP, Distinguished Analyst at Gartner as he explores strategies to address these challenges with SASE, focusing on three key areas: securing the edge, platform consolidation, and AI security. Get key advice from Gartner on navigating the SASE landscape today and learn about tomorrow’s innovations to choose the most efficient and future-proof hybrid work security solution.

The Road Ahead for SASE: Emerging Technologies and Industry Trends

One of the great challenges when implementing cybersecurity protection mechanisms is deciding between building a solution with a collection of "best-of -breed" solutions from various vendors or using a solution that can provide multiple layers of security using one overarching platform. There are good reasons to go in either direction. So how do you decide which is best for your specific needs? 

The presentation will provide useful insight to help you make that decision. It will provide useful information and consideration elements that can allow you to make the appropriate choice between various security products or a composite platform solution. 

Join this discussion to learn:
- How to evaluate various cybersecurity products.
- What is the difference between "best-of-breed" components and a platform solution.
- Cost and manpower considerations associated with the different solutions.
- The ability to use both of the options together for optimal protection.
- The various environments where each of the options would be considered the better solution.
- Creating a rational and defensible argument for your decision.

Best-of-Breed or a Platform Solution: Which is the Better Play?

Network infrastructure outages occur due to various factors like natural disasters, intentional attacks, and network failures. These outages are likely to result in the unavailability of critical network elements, impacts on services, and disruption of traffic flows. In order to protect themselves, companies should aim to implement strategies that both enable them to resist and tolerate failure and to recover mission critical communication elements within a business acceptable timescale. However, achieving this whole commitment can become a huge feat, dependent on the scope and age of the infrastructure, engagement with network providers, local distribution across multiple types of connectivity and services as well as the resources and network capacity necessary to manage the organizations “technology estate”.

Companies should ask themselves (as a starter) what strategy they are planning for and how they can best achieve this strategy within their technology structure. 

Tune into this session presented by our business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates as he brings to light tips to redefine network infrastructure strategies in the “new world” as well as areas that companies must consider when considering resources and timescales for restoration of critical network services. Viewers are encouraged to privately share their major concerns in advance if they wish to gain the most from this session.

Viewers will come away from this session with the following takeaways:
- Become aware of common challenges they may encounter. 
- Form an understanding of redefining strategic direction.
- Ensure your organization embraces a joined-up thinking approach when delivering infrastructure resilience.

Redefining Network Infrastructure Strategies: What is the Key?

It’s not rocket science, it’s network security. And yet for many organizations, the road to securing employees and information often results in trade-offs to performance, agility, scalable services, and user experience. While first-generation SASE solutions promised companies a way out of this complexity, those early deployments failed to resolve the root causes of these growth pains. 

In this roundtable discussion, we’ll break down how Unified SASE as a Service finally gets it right in integrating network services with secure Zero Trust as a foundation. Our panel of experts and users of Unified SASE will share case studies illustrating its impact, the lessons learned, and how this platform can even harness new technologies (like AI and advanced analytics) to provide organizations a seamless, frictionless interstate of secure network transactions.

Common-Sense Security: The case for Unified SASE as a Service

The advent of AI, deep learning, and GenAI has set the stage for a paradigm shift in the telecommunications industry, promising to revolutionize network automation, customer experience, and workforce efficiency. As we navigate the dynamic landscape of 2024, these technologies are at the forefront of driving innovation, optimizing network performance, and tailoring services to meet the evolving demands of end-users. This comprehensive analysis delves into the foundational principles of AI, deep learning and GenAI, exploring their unique capabilities and practical applications in a B2B context, particularly within highly regulated sectors like telecommunications. 

What participants will learn: 
- Robust understanding of the core concepts of AI, deep learning and GenAI, and how these technologies redefine the capabilities of telecom companies. 
- How GenAI can automate network operations, reduce downtime, and enhance service quality. 
- How AI and GenAI can analyze expansive data sets to improve network quality and tailor services to individual user preferences. 
- How automating repetitive tasks and providing intelligent insights can optimize the telecom workforce, reducing operational costs and fostering business agility. 
- The legal considerations of deploying Gen AI in telecom, ensuring compliance with global regulations.
- How AI and GenAI can be strategically leveraged to enhance network efficiency, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence.
- How GenAI can facilitate the deployment of advanced applications and services, driving innovation and competitive differentiation. 
- The ethical considerations and sustainable practices essential for the responsible deployment of GenAI.
- Risks associated with GenAI and strategies to mitigate these challenges, ensuring secure and unbiased applications. 
- The evolving legal landscape and the importance of specialized legal expertise in successfully navigating Gen AI applications in telecom.

Decoding GenAI for Networks

The ability to connect networks together is the single most important thing to enable digital transformation.  

This session will focus on everything you need to know to streamline your network infrastructure and glean the most data and information from disparate and disconnected networks and devices. Digital transformation involves converting data into useful information and sharing the information between OT and IT. Using advanced connectivity, new automation opportunities  help control and configuration applications to run simultaneously on the same physical wire. 

Learn how to maximize your network and devices running control operations and add new devices without shutting the network down. These new networks allow your printers, video systems, and data analytic applications to co-exist on the same wire as your control system. Using new TSN (time-sensitive networking) technology, we will explore how you can maximize connectivity and disparate networks and disparate devices coexisting for the ultimate interoperability
 
Key takeaways 
- How to maximize the efficiency of all your IT and OT networks, and how you can connect the IT and OT world while sharing data and information seamlessly.
- How to maintain your network in the most efficient fashion and connect your legacy devices and legacy networks to the new network technology in a seamless fashion.
- The importance of data and the multitude of opportunities to get data out of your plant floor and other facility operations, which will enable you to maximize the efficiency of your operations. 
- How you can maintain your assets and add/delete/modify their configuration  to obtain data without impacting the operations of your plant.

Enable Digital Transformation With the Right Network Infrastructure

As IT ecosystems undergo digital transformation, organizations must reassess and reshape existing network architectures. The relentless growth of network traffic, coupled with big data aggregation across multi-cloud environments, renders traditional network models for monitoring and decision-making unaffordable and obsolete.

Traditional network architectures, integrating the control plane and data plane, face challenges tied to the configuration of physical network devices, supported protocols, and accompanying software. The solution lies in AI and ML-powered network architectures, offering intelligent tools for:
- Centralized control
- Increased network scalability
- Clear network visibility
- Improved operational efficiency through automation and intelligence
- Processing vast volumes of data
- Conducting data analytics
- Enhancing security and reducing vulnerability to cyber threats

Join us to learn how to harness the Power of AI and ML, redefining and accommodating the expansion of network architectures.

Leveraging the Power of AI and ML to Redefine and Reshape Network Architectures

Redefining Network Infrastructure Strategies

Join this webinar for an insightful exploration of the evolving landscape of secure access service edge (SASE) and discover our top 5 predictions for this year.
Our cybersecurity experts will:

• Analyze the current market, upcoming trends, emerging technologies, and industry shifts to provide you with valuable insights into the future of SASE
• Discuss how SASE is reshaping the cybersecurity industry
• Show you how to gain a strategic advantage by using the upcoming enhancements in SASE and staying ahead in the ever-changing world of hybrid workforce security

SASE Outlook 2024: Top 5 Predictions and Trends

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