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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

Forward Present

The present model for SASE is the baseline for the future. In conversation, the practical application of the Zero Trust Framework has been an impossible goal. In fact, with every challenging goal throughout history, the next achievement is always considered impossible to those rational thinkers that talk through the reasons why achievement will be forever elusive. It is good to be rational, but it may be impossible to find a financial benefit to rational thinking.

While great minds consider a problem rationally, there is often someone in the next room that is executing a solution to the problem by leveraging less than rational methods, such as trial and error.

SASE services are production-ready and have been so prior to the writing of this book. Many thousands of organizations have been operating SASE in production, with a few hundred having a Zero Trust Framework (ZTF) in place. It is worth noting that many conversations taking place at the time this book was...