Many articles in the industry and my blog on Deciphering SASE are very clear on the major constituents of SASE. In the case of SASE Security, the predominant components discussed are Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access[...]

In my previous blog on identity-aware SASE I discussed zero trust, the role of SASE, and the importance of identity in access controls. Another blog on SASE Proxy explained how SASE solutions obtain users’ identities after authenticating[...]

Why Proxies in SASE? Gone are the days when the packet level security was considered sufficient. Due to the sophistication of attacks, it is becoming imperative to do deep content inspection for various kinds of protections. Identity[...]

What is threat hunting? Threat hunting is a proactive defense approach to detect threats that evade existing security solutions. Why threat hunting? Firewall, IDS/IPS, SWG, ZTNA, CASB functions help in protecting enterprise assets from known threats. Security[...]

Why Identity awareness in SASE? My previous blog on Deciphering SASE talked about identity awareness in various security components of SASE. This post describes the various methods for realizing identity-aware SASE. Access controls in traditional perimeter-centric security[...]

You might have heard about multiple architecture principles in the context of network security in general and SASE in particular. Some software architecture principles used by the industry in SASE context are: Single-pass Architecture One-proxy Architecture Run-to-completion[...]

Data has become the most valuable resource for Enterprises.  No wonder, there are many bad actors trying to disrupt the Enterprise businesses from stealing & corrupting the data. Data security is all about protecting the data from[...]

What is SASE? SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is defined by Gartner. Network security functions are not new, and SD-WAN is not new to the industry. SASE delivers them as a cloud service. Simply put, SASE combines[...]