Security News > 2021 > May > Vendor Survey vs Reality on SASE Implementation
An unusually styled survey report from WSJ Intelligence and Forcepoint - titled The C-Suite Report: Business and Security Strategies for the Unbound Enterprise - makes numerous assertions with little quantitative detail.
Despite this, the report draws the conclusion, "Enterprises that embrace this opportunity will see their business thrive versus just survive in the next 5-10 years." This is what everybody in the security industry would like to believe - but there is no specific evidence in the survey to suggest it is true.
Few people will learn much from this - except perhaps, for one particular return: "90% of CEOs and 84% of CISOs indicated they have already adopted or were on a path to adopt SASE." Implementing SASE, or secure access service edge, is not like installing an anti-malware app - it cannot be done overnight and requires a major overhaul of existing security controls.
Despite this, SASE is an attractive security approach for any enterprise increasing its cloud and remote working estates; and as the cloud and remote working paradigm increases, so will the attraction of SASE. SecurityWeek spoke to David Greenfield, director of technology evangelism at Cato Networks, a specialist SASE firm.
As recently as March 25, 2021 it published its Strategic Roadmap for SASE Convergence.
"By 2025," suggests Gartner, "At least 60% of enterprises will have explicit strategies and timelines for SASE adoption encompassing user, branch and edge access, up from 10% in 2020.".