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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

SASE Orchestrate

The orchestrator can be a tool, platform, service component, management system, or service provided to direct intended actions from software-based services. Generally, the orchestrator refers to a software platform with a suite of tools that manage, operate, configure, monitor, enforce policy, and perform many other necessary functions at the management plane in a software-defined network.

"Orchestrator (Concert and Stage): An orchestrator takes a composer's musical sketch and turns it into a score for orchestra, ensemble, or choral group, assigning the instruments and voices according to the composer's intentions." (https://www.berklee.edu/careers/roles/orchestrator).

Much like its musical equivalent, the orchestrator is balancing the collaborative participation of all the individual subcomponents of a solution. These subcomponents can be a configuration file, a software image, a network services template, a virtual machine, a set of policies...