Alternative Private Backbones for SASE and SD-WAN
Part of the premise behind secure access service edge (SASE) and global SD-WAN services is to replace the MPLS services that long anchored enterprise networks. But to do that, they first need ways to overcome the unpredictable and high latencies of the global Internet. Enter global private backbones. Whether they’re independent backbones, like Azure Virtual […]
Resilience a Must in Evaluating SASE Deployment
We’ve spoken a lot about the capabilities of SASE like Zero Trust and security in general, but features mean little if there’s a SASE outage. Today, all SASE vendors provide high availability (HA) SD-WAN device configurations, but, of course, SASE networks involve more than just SD-WAN devices. They involve a full range of security services, […]
Ten SASE Trends To Look For In 2021
Another year, another era. 2020 was a year like none other for IT. The biggest exercise in remote working ever seen in the COVID-19 response. The worst hack in the SolarWinds attack. And, yes, the evolution of a new network architecture called SASE. What does 2021 have in store for the SASE market? Based on […]
The Pleasure and Pain of Best of Breed Networks
Ever since the early days of networking, we’ve extolled the benefits of best-of-breed networks. We’ve been able to select products with the most features, expanded our purchasing options, and seen prices plunge. But like anything, there are also downsides to building networks from a mix of products and services, downsides that became particularly relevant as […]
SASE: Theory vs. Reality
It’s astonishing to see how quickly the industry has adopted the secure access service edge (SASE) as the future of networking and security. It was a little more than a year ago when Gartner first introduced the SASE architecture and already it’s become the successor to SD-WAN. It’s no stretch to say that every major […]
Managed Detection and Response: Integrated SIEM versus Inherent MDR
Guest Writer Bio: Eyal Webber-Zvick is Cato Networks’ Senior Director of Product Marketing and Business Development with over 20 years of experience in security and networking companies. With Gartner’s introduction of the SASE architecture, the industry has accepted that security and networking should be converged and delivered from the cloud. This architecture reduces costs, makes […]
Open Systems Adds MDR To SD-WAN Platform
The integration of security into SD-WAN was once an anomaly but particularly since the introduction of SASE has increasingly become the norm. Open Systems, an early player in the secure SD-WAN trend, took a step even further and announced today the integration of managed detection and response (MDR). The service will be available in Q3 […]
How to Integrate SASE with Your Existing WAN and SD-WAN
We’ve spoken a lot about the emergence of Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Gartner might not have been the first consultancy to describe how security and networking are converging together into a global cloud service, but its definition has certainly become popular. Already, we’ve seen several of our clients requesting SASE elements in their […]
Coronavirus and Remote Access are the Best Reason for SASE Architectures
As we grapple with the implications of Coronavirus, IT professionals need to ready themselves for what’s being called the largest work from home experiment in history. Numerous countries are requiring workers to be remote. Just last month, Cato Network reported seeing a 75% jump in active remote users. Over here at SASE Experts, we’ve seen […]
SD-WAN, or SASE: Focus on the Biggest Picture
All too often, when our team gets called into an engagement, we spend time helping our client anticipating their networking and security needs of tomorrow. Too often, the IT leaders are focussed on one thing when it comes to SD-WAN — getting off of MPLS. The cost savings of replacing MPLS circuits with SD-WAN and Internet bandwidth have […]