SASE adoption accelerating as workforce goes remote
In the wake of COVID-19, enterprises are racing to adopt Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE
The concept, not even a year old, wasn’t expected to take root until 2024 at the earliest, according to forecasts, but that timeline has all but evaporated as companies address the security needs of an increasingly remote workforce.
Gartner coined the term in August 2019, describing SASE as a way for enterprises to protect their data, wherever it may be located, through a combination of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), secure web gateways, cloud access security brokers (CASBs) and zero-trust network access. Neil MacDonald, vice president and distinguished analyst for Gartner, based in Stamford, Conn., originally projected about 40% of enterprises would adopt SASE by 2024, but he told SearchSecurity that companies are deploying the model today.