“Customer demands for simplicity, scalability, flexibility, low latency and pervasive security force convergence of the WAN edge and network security markets, creating the secure access service edge (SASE), with a predominantly cloud-based, as-a-service delivery model.”
Gartner, How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge, July 2019
The Gartner SASE Model
Everything is moving to the cloud and all the action is no longer at your data center, but at the network edge. To flourish, your business demands a network that is not just cloud-ready, but cloud-native. Enter Gartner SASE.
The SASE model simplifies what it takes to get the agile, secure, scalable and resilient network your business needs to thrive in an edge-centric world.
A SASE Network
- Merges networking and security into a unified platform, informed with the user’s network context
- Is built using cloud-native principles and components
- Is delivered in the cloud as on-demand SaaS applications
- Merges networking and security into a unified platform, informed with the user’s network context
- Is built using cloud-native principles and components
- Is delivered in the cloud as on-demand SaaS applications

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