Taking the Digital Transformation Edge With SASE

One of the keys to successful digital transformation is the delivery of high-value services to the enterprise at the cloud edge. And a foundational element of this is security, what many are now calling the Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, a term first coined by Gartner in 2019. It defines an architecture where a suite of previously siloed security services are delivered via the cloud, and in doing so, aligns more closely to the cloud consumption model that has taken center-stage over the last decade, but even more-so over the past year. But SASE doesn’t stand alone, and is one cog in an edge architecture that offers the enterprise the transport, multi-cloud connectivity, and application performance guarantees that are key to ensuring employee productivity, both on-premises as well as when remote. In this presentation, you will learn how to effectively deploy cloud edge-based security, SASE, including best practices and pitfalls, and how it relates to other capabilities deployed as part of a digital transformation initiative. An important element of this is the adoption of managed services, an approach that will de-risk any digital transformation effort and aligns closely with the scalability, flexibility, simplicity, and TCO advantages of the cloud consumption model.