If You Don't Have A SASE Cloud Service, You Don't Have SASE At All
Nov 05, 2020
The Secure Access Service Edge (or SASE) has been a very hot buzzword in the past year. A term and category created by Gartner 2019, SASE states that the future of networking and security lies in the convergence of these categories into a single, cloud-based platform. The capabilities that SASE delivers aren't new and include SD-WAN , threat prevention, remote access, and others that were available from multiple vendors over the years. So, what is, in fact, new about SASE? This is the main topic for our discussion with Yishay Yovel, Chief Marketing Office at Cato Networks , one of the first companies that entered the SASE market. THN: Cato had been a big proponent of SASE. Why is SASE important to end customers? Yishay: SASE is a wake-up call for our industry and IT organizations. IT infrastructure got fragmented with many point solutions that, in turn, created complexity, rigidity, high cost, and increased risk. These are systemic issues. Each point product by itself does
