Security News > 2022 > June > Paving your path to SASE: 4 tips for achieving connectivity and security

SASE helps by teaming cloud-based SD-WAN with cloud-delivered secure service edge security services - including access control, threat defense, data protection, security monitoring and more - to deliver a boundless security perimeter while radically increasing performance.

Using SD-WAN as your SASE starting point and launchpad to SSE. Without laying the proper connectivity foundation with reliable SD-WAN, implementing SSE will be difficult.

An established SD-WAN solution that seamlessly connects with renowned SSE tools as well as the third-party SASE solutions that may already be in your mixed environment.

Many SECaaS vendors will make SASE a security conversation because they may excel in one area like SSE but may lack expertise in another area like SD-WAN. To compensate, these vendors may buy another company which may not deliver an optimum SD-WAN platform.

SECaaS vendors may acquire and assemble SD-WAN components and call that SASE instead of building out a true SASE platform.

SSE/SECaaS vendors have struggled to address the connectivity use case and either turned towards acquiring an SD-WAN vendor or chose to partner with a best in breed SD-WAN provider.

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