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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

Summary

SASE management is more complex to build than the management of previous services, as policies must interlock to provide effective secure communication. A systematic, hierarchical, template-based, and automated approach to SASE management can pave the way for unprecedented levels of scale to manage the evolving needs of any organization. Putting more effort into the initial design and deployment of a management platform and its supporting systems can reduce costs, labor, and compliance efforts.

If the concept of baking a cake with 1,000 mini-tasks to complete causes you concern, it should. There is no feasible way for a human to complete the increasing level of tasks required for managing any environment in real-time. A combination of DevOps practices with effective management systems (that include orchestration and AIOps) is required to achieve success. The automated systems break working environments if complex or compound policies are utilized. Each process has to be...