As many workplaces stay in a remote or a hybrid operating model due to COVID-19, businesses and agencies of all sizes and industries face the long-term challenges of keeping data and infrastructure secure. With remote workers, security teams have to secure many more endpoints and a much wider area each day. In response, many groups are changing their processes and tech to adopt a zero trust approach. To keep their work even more flexible and secure, businesses are also adding in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).
A recent study commissioned by IBM and conducted by Forrester Consulting found that 78% of respondents are either interested in or planning to implement SASE in the next 12 months. So what is it, and how does it and zero trust fit together?
What Is SASE?
SASE refers to a principle that puts the protection closer to the actual users and devices. Doing so helps solve some of the issues brought about by the increase in remote work. SASE suites manage the required infrastructure and tech using a cloud-based management system. (The points it manages can include those such as secure web gateways, SD-WAN solutions, firewalls and cloud-access security brokers.)
Gartner designed the approach to address the deficits in the existing cybersecurity method, especially with dynamic services, software as a service (SaaS) and distributed data. Gartner says SASE has four main traits: it’s identity-driven, has cloud-native architecture, supports all edges and is globally distributed.
How Is SASE Different From Zero Trust?
The two are similar in many ways. The biggest difference is that the cloud-based architecture defined in SASE is a ..
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