From SD-WAN to ZTNA to SASE: Don’t Lose Sight of What Matters
It wasn’t that long ago that SD-WAN was the next great frontier. It was the technology to displace MPLS and to give enterprise networking teams what they wanted for years – freedom from the tyranny of carriers with their overpriced capacity, long deployment times, and dysfunctional support. In short, it seemed like SD-WAN was the […]
SASE and Last Mile Redundancy: Is 5G the Answer?
Increasingly, I’m being asked about 5G and SASE. How are the two related? Which SASE vendors support 5G? So let’s address it here. Last Mile: Where the Action Isn’t The last-mile has always been the Achilles heel of enterprise networking. In the core, we’ve had an abundance of bandwidth. The many paths comprising the core […]
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 […]
What Security Components Comprise a SASE Solution?
It’s been four years since Gartner introduced Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). The architecture sees the convergence of enterprise networking and security into a single solution. It’s become the predominant approach for the future of enterprise networking and security. Every major enterprise networking and security vendor today has claims to offer SASE if not as […]
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, […]
SASE: Networking Capabilities in a SASE Solution
With so many companies claiming to offer secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, I’m frequently asked, “What exactly is a SASE offering?” We discussed the security part of the answer in our last post, now let’s take a look at the networking capabilities. As you’ll recall, SASE is intended to be one network for the […]
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 […]
SD-WAN and SASE – Where is My SLA?
What SLAs are in a SASE service? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself of late. As I look at the shakeups in the SASE space, understanding what you get in a SASE service is of utmost importance to my customers. Of course, the best way to understand what any provider delivers is to trial […]
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 […]