Secure Access Service Edge, 2023 Growth environment Frost & Sullivan’s recent survey on the ICT network services market finds that of the participating 1,624 cybersecurity decision- makers and influencers, including C-level executives, 60% of organizations anticipate the convergence of network and security in their network strategy during the next 2 years. In terms of SASE adoption, Frost & Sullivan’s 2023 Voice of Enterprise Security Customer Survey indicates that 46% of organizations are using SASE whereas 38% plan for SASE adoption by 2024. Only 13% of organizations shared that they were not considering SASE adoption. The majority of organizations want to deploy SASE for ease of security management across network branches or remote workers (49%), for cost savings with integrated network and security (47%), and for threat prevention and detection (43%). Many of them are also looking to achieve application performance optimization (41%), protect branch and remote endpoints (40%), and protect edge applications (40%) through SASE deployment. These survey results align with the strong growth of the SASE market in 2022, which will continue during the next three years at a high double-digit year-over-year (YoY) growth rate. Frost & Sullivan expects the global SASE market will generate total revenue of $1,358.2 million in 2023, representing YoY growth of 60.1% and increasing at a strong compound annual growth rate of 35.3% from 2023 to 2027, reaching $6,162.9 million in 2027. Chief information security officers (CISOs) increasingly face challenges in the growing complexity of their IT infrastructure as organizations embrace digital transformation and incorporate new technology tools into their systems. Their migration to cloud and adoption of a multi-cloud strategy are forcing organizations to modernize their network and security infrastructure so they can reduce or eliminate the complexity of sustaining fragmented and disjointed networking and security products. In addition, the rise of the hybrid workforce has expanded the attack surface, and a perimeter-based security approach is not adequate to protect the applications, workloads, or data that are hosted in multiple locations, whether in on-premises data centers, public cloud platforms, or hybrid and multi-cloud environments. To navigate these challenges, CISOs are seeking solutions that provide comprehensive networking and security capabilities, allowing users to access data, workloads, and applications from any location securely without compromising safety. As a result, the adoption of SASE solutions is strong globally. More organizations will value a unified SASE solution from one single vendor over a best-of-breed SASE solution from multiple vendors, as the single SASE approach allows them to overcome challenges posed by discrete networking and security tools and significantly reduce architectural complexity. Most SASE platforms in today’s market support customers moving in phases to a single SASE solution via a flexible platform architecture. This provides greater flexibility, especially for those who still rely on legacy networking or security hardware appliances. Frost & Sullivan studies related to these independent analyses: Global SASE Growth Opportunities, 2022 Global Secure SD-WAN Solutions Growth Opportunities, 2022 © 2023 Frost & Sullivan. All rights reserved. This document contains highly confidential information and is the sole property of Frost & Sullivan. No part of it may be circulated, quoted, copied, or otherwise reproduced without the written approval of Frost & Sullivan.