Business Drivers The move towards SASE is driven by nothing that addresses both networking and security less than the preservation of the company. If functions. This can also offload IT teams from that sounds like hyperbole, consider the effects menial tasks associated with updates, some of a successful ransomware attack that has aspects of routine maintenance, and the general locked down your data. Will you pay, or will you administration of an on-premises network. not pay? Do you have insurance, and does that “You can no longer have a rational conversation insurance have the caveats necessary to enable about security without including the network, the company to deny your claim? Can you restore and you can no longer have a rational discussion from backups, or did the attackers gain control of about the network without including security,” those, too? said Rich Korn of Masergy. “They are much too “It’s never happened to us before” is the common tightly integrated. The end customer needs response of the unprepared, who often use to look for someone who can combine those this fact as a reason to refrain from investing in and add a consultative approach. Everyone security. Yet once an attack has been unleashed, wins when the partner, the customer, and the this reasoning is rarely seen as satisfactory. technical resources are all on the same page On a more benign front, SASE customers also and targeting the desired outcome.” want solid performance from their applications In addition, the integration of the network and delivered anywhere in the world through security silos, combined with the consolidation reliable connectivity and efficient, policy-based of point products can favorably impact the management of an integrated cloud service expense line. Copyright © 2021 AVANT Communications, Inc. AVANT | SASE 6-12 Report | 11