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Diving into Secure Access Service Edge

By : Jeremiah
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Diving into Secure Access Service Edge

By: Jeremiah

Overview of this book

The SASE concept was coined by Gartner after seeing a pattern emerge in cloud and SD-WAN projects where full security integration was needed. The market behavior lately has sparked something like a "space race" for all technology manufacturers and cloud service providers to offer a "SASE" solution. The current training available in the market is minimal and manufacturer-oriented, with new services being released every few weeks. Professional architects and engineers trying to implement SASE need to take a manufacturer-neutral approach. This guide provides a foundation for understanding SASE, but it also has a lasting impact because it not only addresses the problems that existed at the time of publication, but also provides a continual learning approach to successfully lead in a market that evolves every few weeks. Technology teams need a tool that provides a model to keep up with new information as it becomes available and stay ahead of market hype. With this book, you’ll learn about crucial models for SASE success in designing, building, deploying, and supporting operations to ensure the most positive user experience (UX). In addition to SASE, you’ll gain insight into SD-WAN design, DevOps, zero trust, and next-generation technical education methods.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Part 1 – SASE Market Perspective
7
Part 2 – SASE Technical Perspective
15
Part 3 – SASE Success Perspective
20
Part 4 – SASE Bonus Perspective
Appendix: SASE Terms

Services Overview

The market will continue to expand in SASE service offerings exponentially for the foreseeable future. Comparable to security software or SD-WAN, the market anticipates growth in the number of services, manufacturers, developers, and service providers of SASE services. During the growth cycle of SD-WAN from 2017 to 2021, close to 100 different SD-WAN products were brought to market. Most products were a single brand or a single product, but several companies brought or acquired several different SD-WAN products, which meant at least 70 companies developed a product.

Today, large resellers have more than 1,000 different security products to sell to their customers as most security practices have brand preferences. Most manufacturers acquire or develop new products as fast as possible to keep up with the feature, function, or tooling requirements of their customers. This activity creates a sprawl in the market offerings and there is an ever-growing expense that creates...