SSE kicks the ‘A’ out of SASE

The emergence of secure access service edge (SASE) dominated the networking market for the last few years as enterprises sought to address increasingly distributed IT environments. SASE hit the lexicon after 2019 took hold as enterprises started to see a possible route in the convergence with software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and …

[Anonymous Coward]

So it's just more buzzwords then

what a nothingburger of an article. What can we take away from this vendor puffery beyond the fact they refuse to work together, can't be bothered to build a workable end to end system, and aren't listening to the people building solutions on their own today? The pandemic made those of us at the coal face hit the gas pedal hard or receive the motivating boot to our collective and individual rears. When we hit the walls thrown up by intransigent vendors we built around them.

They can fight each other over the road kill of the deployments that didn't make it gracefully over the bar when covid landed on us an industry, but they aren't selling solutions to their customer's problems, they are selling band-aids to cover the fact that their own companies are trying to play catch-up with their customers. Customers that were forced to engineer working solutions under the gun partly because of they were late to the game. Now even if they develop something we will have to tear up working deployments to re-architect things to play nice with their "solutions"

[Valeyard]

SASE hit the lexicon after 2019 took hold as enterprises started to see a possible route in the convergence with software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and network security functions for threat protection, zero-trust features, firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) and cloud access security broker (CASB), all delivered as a cloud service.

I made it halfway through this paragraph before I got accenture email PTSD flashbacks

[Anonymous Coward]

Axis of Evil

Magic Quadrant?

More like Axis of Evil.

Keep in mind that these are tools/services operated by third parties, and they deliberately require you to weaken your security to gain a perceived improvement.

The buzzword bingo doesn't really help either.

Decision makers (or "leaders", as they're called in the article) should think long and hard about what they want to protect and from whom.

A "magic" solution will never help against every threat, and it will always open new attack vectors.

Security needs to be part of every system you deploy - and that means you have to understand first what your systems do and what they should not be doing. And that is not a task that an AI or run-off-the-mill solution can do for you. It can only help identify blind spots you might have missed.