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Rethinking SASE: Why Migrate Cybersecurity

from Cloud to Browser

By John “JP” Peterson, Chief Product Officer, High Wire Networks

Cyberthreats are the scourge of our day. Few would argue, but there’s little consensus about what to do
about it. The vanishing perimeter is to blame. We’ve now got to protect an ephemeral network edge made
up of devices that are not only portable but mobile.

Secure Service Access Edge (SASE) architectures emerged as a cloud-based answer to this problem.
In 2019 Gartner, a leading technology research firm, called SASE the “future of network security” because
it uses software-defined, dynamically-created, policy-based and cloud-delivered security to lock down
access at the ever-expanding network edge.

Vendors and enterprises were quick to jump on the SASE bandwagon to retain centralized control over
network security. It’s been and continues to be a long and expensive journey because we’ve been
building the car along the way.

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