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Head of Global Enterprise Business,
Asia Pacific Verizon
There’s no denying the widespread shift of business applications to the cloud, with worldwide spending on public cloud services forecast to grow more than 20% in 2023 according to Gartner, Inc 1 .Cloud technology is headed in many different directions, all aimed at providing rapid, scalable access to computing resources and IT services.
Yet as cloud technology evolves, many organisations are realising that legacy-based solutions may not provide optimum security features when previewing network operating models and moving to cloud-based security policies could address this challenge.
Firstly, what is SASE? SASE, which stands for secure access service edge, is a cloud-native architecture that unifies software-defined wide area network (SD WAN) capabilities with security functions like cloud access security broker (CASB), zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and firewall as a service (FWaaS). A SASE architecture combines networking and security functions into a single cloud-delivered service at the network edge.
Research shows that by 2024, at least 40 percent of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE, up from less than one percent at year-end 2018 2. Even more resounding, “the SASE market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 116 per cent, attaining a market value of $5.1 billion by 2024,” according to the Dell’Oro Group.
Research by TMT Consulting, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, was commissioned by Verizon Business to understand business drivers, key decision-making criteria, deployment types, barriers and key learnings from executives involved in evaluating and deploying SASE/ZTNA in their organisation across Europe and Asia-Pacific.
The research revealed three primary ZTNA/SASE benefit groups: business, user, and security operations (SecOps). Key business benefits included strengthened cybersecurity capabilities, edge-to-edge, borderless protection, cost savings and improved support for virtual workers 3.
The trend of moving applications to the cloud has significantly accelerated the uptake of SASE. We saw this explode following the pandemic, where the workforce was rapidly decentralised, pushing businesses to ensure their IT infrastructure was agile to accommodate multi-location use.
Several major benefits can emerge when adopting a SASE strategy, including reduced network costs, the support of cloud enterprise security versus on-premises security, and the ability to blend network and security functions as one.
Key considerations for businesses adopting a SASE management strategy to replace legacy-based networking solutions include:
The future of SASE looks bright, and the framework is here to stay. The five key SASE features that can contribute to a thriving enterprise when replacing legacy-based networking solutions are:
Flexibility and customisation are important elements when creating and delivering SASE services. Verizon runs SASE workshops with our clients to gauge their current and preferred cybersecurity and cloud-application posture, which will help understand whether SASE is a good fit for them, now and in the future.
To find out how to fit SASE services into your organisational operations, contact us today.
1 https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-04-19-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-public-cloud-end-user-spending-to-reach-nearly-600-billion-in-2023
2 https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/delloro-sase-market-to-hit-5b-by-2024/2020/10/
3 https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/articles/ update-continuing-sase-ztna-research-yields-more-insights. pdf?linkId=220603021
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