Security News > 2021 > March > Only 12% of enterprises have fully embraced SASE

Although many public and private sector organizations have elements of SASE in their IT stack, only 12% worldwide currently have a comprehensive SASE architecture, according to NetMotion.

VPN is the most widely deployed SASE solution, followed by WAN optimization, cloud secure web gateways, firewall-as-a-service and SD-WAN. Despite their hype over the last two years, ZTNA/SDP and edge content filtering are the least widely deployed SASE solutions, although filtering content at the edge is most prevalent in the US, perhaps driven by the need to ensure compliance and security amidst the growth in remote working.

"While SASE is likely to represent the future of network availability, optimization and cybersecurity, our survey revealed that the perception of accelerated adoption is much greater than the current reality, which is that the vast majority of enterprises are not yet close to fully embracing this framework," said Christopher Kenessey, CEO and President, NetMotion.

"Our survey makes it clear that we're only at the very beginning of the SASE evolution, and that many organizations don't yet fully appreciate the benefits of going all in on this approach."

One of the main factors inhibiting greater SASE adoption is that only 4% of organizations have migrated fully to the cloud, with just over half having the majority of their apps and services in the cloud, according to our findings.

With organizations slow to adopt a comprehensive SASE stack, it is no surprise that the data also revealed a continued reliance on enterprise VPNs. In fact, over 50% of respondents reported that their organization relied most heavily on VPN for secure remote access during the pandemic.

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