Book Image

Diving into Secure Access Service Edge

By : Jeremiah
Book Image

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

Forward Overview

At the time of writing, there is no industry standard for SASE. We are currently expecting the standard to be published any day now. I have had the privilege of helping the brilliant minds that have been working to create standards for SASE with the MEF Forum for about 2 years. The people in that working group have collectively invested thousands of hours outside of their primary role to create an approach that will allow interoperability within competing SASE services. We appreciate industry analysts at Gartner, for noticing the pattern that we were each deploying into the market without collective knowledge of a trend. To each of us, it was a logical next step to solve problems that our customers presented, but the coining of the phrase SASE enabled us to create a focus on excellence in our individual SASE efforts.

To go forward, we must relearn our trade in the technology world. Getting into this industry, 30 years ago, we had to retrain every 3–5 years...