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Securing Access to Cloud: The Roles of SASE and SD-WAN

July 1, 2020

Via: CSO

As companies rapidly adopt multi-cloud platforms and services, security concerns have ramped up. Organizations now have to think about securing both access and connections to the data and applications that are increasingly moving outside of the enterprise.

At the same time, they’re increasingly looking to software-defined WANs to help control the connectivity and services between their data centers and clouds. According to the Network World 2020 State of the Network, 71% are either researching or have SD-WAN in production.

Gartner sees these trends colliding as enterprises realize they need greater security and resiliency in data center-to-cloud connections. That’s the basic premise addressed by Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) concept.

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