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DELIVERING PERVASIVE SECURITY Vibin Shaju, Director – Sales Engineering UKMA at McAfee shares insights of what SASE is all about and also about McAfee’s offerings in SASE cloud access to applications, data and services anywhere, any time. SASE converges networking and network security into a single, cloud-delivered offering to support the needs of digital business transformation, edge computing, and workforce mobility. Gartner’s SASE framework provides for the dynamic creation of a policy-based, secure-access service edge, regardless of the location of the entities requesting the capabilities, and regardless of the location of the networked capabilities they are requesting access to. Gartner states, “Comprehensive SASE offerings are only now emerging, with adoption rates at less than 1%.” Gartner also states “By 2024, at least 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE, up from less than 1% at year-end 2018.”
Vibin Shaju Director Sales Engineering UKMA, McAfee
What in brief is SASE about? How does it redefine network security as we have known it conventionally in the multicloud era? SASE is a security framework for enabling secure and fast cloud adoption and helping ensure both users and devices have secure
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What are the major objectives of a comprehensive SASE platform or solution? is this only cloud delivered or does it also include anything physical? The SASE framework is designed to allow enterprise security professionals to apply identity and context to specify the exact level of performance, reliability, security, and cost desired for every network session. Organizations using the SASE framework can realize increased speed and achieve greater scale in the cloud, while addressing new security challenges inherent in these cloud environments. SASE is generally classified as a cloud-delivered service, providing secure access to cloud-based resources, secure communications between remote users, and always-on security for devices off-premises. However, there are situations where organizations may require a combination of physical and cloud-based solutions for SASE to work effectively. This may include supporting
