Concept
Secure access service edge (SASE)
How software-defined networking and cloud-delivered security converge at distributed edges, so access policy follows the user, the device and the data.
Goal
Getting the right person to the right application from an untrusted place, without handing them the network the application sits on.
7 entries: 3 concepts, 2 comparisons, 2 scenarios.
Concept
How software-defined networking and cloud-delivered security converge at distributed edges, so access policy follows the user, the device and the data.
Concept
The cloud-delivered security half of SASE, without the networking half, and what stays unsolved when you buy the security services on their own.
Concept
How brokered, application-specific access replaces network-level connectivity, and what an over-broad application definition gives back.
Comparison
A VPN grants reachability to a network and then trusts you. ZTNA brokers one application per request and never puts you on the network at all.
Comparison
SSE is the security half of SASE. Where the boundary falls decides whether branch and wide-area connectivity is part of the purchase or still your problem.
Scenario
A finance analyst reaches payroll from hotel Wi-Fi on a managed laptop whose endpoint protection is stale. The identity is valid, the device is not, and allow or deny is the wrong pair of answers.
Scenario
A third-party specialist needs access to a single internal console for a fixed engagement. The easy answer is an account, a network route and an offboarding task nobody runs.
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