The current enterprise network security practices focus on verifying the identity of the user and the device in a perimeter-less environment, where cloudhosted technologies prevail in the enterprise and where remote sites include branch offices and employees working from home.
In Gartner’s paper “The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud”, one of the key findings is that “network security architectures that place the enterprise data center at the center of connectivity requirements are an inhibitor to the dynamic access requirements of digital business.” And there is a recommendation for enterprises to move their security into the cloud, based on a networking and security model called Secure SASE, a term coined by Gartner’s leading security analysts.
