New 2022 SASE Market Trends Study Shows Solutions Exceed Expectations in Remote Work Connectivity and Security
June 28 2022 - 10:13AM
Business Wire
Digital Services and Distributed Workforce
Trends Accelerate Investments, According to CIO Research Sponsored
by Masergy and Fortinet
Masergy, the software-defined network and cloud platform for the
digital enterprise, and Fortinet, a global leader in broad,
integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today released
the results of a new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) research
study from CIO. The findings show recent trends are accelerating
investments in SASE solutions with recognized benefits exceeding
expectations across five key categories — most notably remote work
connectivity and security performance.
This trend is the reason Fortinet and Masergy teamed up in 2020
to deliver a highly differentiated SASE architecture that converges
security and networking. The Masergy-delivered SASE offering is
built using Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, which converges highly scalable
SD-WAN, next-generation firewall, advanced routing, and zero trust
network access (ZTNA) into a single solution. Combined with
Masergy’s global software-defined network, 24/7 network and
security management services, industry-leading service level
agreements, and exceptional customer experience, the joint SASE
offering helps redefine what is possible for future-thinking
businesses.
“An overwhelming majority of respondents (98%) believe
convergence of network and security is critical or very important,”
said Franz Chavez, Vice President, Solutions Engineering at
Masergy, now part of Comcast Business. “We know that building
intelligence across disciplines is essential in a world where work
is no longer defined by location. Network and security teams
require new ways of working together — across all domains and
resources with shared visibility to drive actionable insights.
That’s where SASE is gaining steam.”
Other notable findings from the CIO 2022 SASE Market Trends
Study include:
- 94% of respondents say their adoption of SASE solutions has
accelerated due to the need to make digital services and/or
remote/hybrid work sustainable for the long term
- The top four challenges driving interest in SASE solutions are:
- Cloud security, including visibility and control into cloud
environments (52%);
- Innovation, including cloud application migration and
artificial intelligence (44%);
- Security strategy, including implementing Zero Trust (41%);
and
- Network security, including removing connectivity barriers
without jeopardizing security (36%)
- In comparing anticipated benefits against experienced benefits,
SASE solutions exceed user expectations in the areas of:
- Remote work connectivity (38% anticipated vs. 59%
experienced)
- Security performance (55% anticipated vs. 69% experienced)
- Cost savings (33% anticipated vs. 45% experienced)
- Visibility into the IT environment (33% anticipated vs. 43%
experienced)
- User experience (44% anticipated vs. 52% experienced)
- In selecting SASE solutions, respondents prioritize:
- SD-WAN: Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) came
in as the most important core capability with Cloud Access Security
Broker (CASB) in second place and Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) in
third
- Network, Cloud, and Endpoint Security: When it comes to
value-added features, respondents highly rate:
- Network security (91%)
- Flexibility to deploy security in the cloud or on-premise
(91%)
- Endpoint security protections (91%)
- Unified Platform: 95% want a common operating system for
their SASE solution
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): 91% consider it highly
important that their SASE solution includes AI tools and
features
- Vendor Consolidation: 87% prefer solutions manufactured
by three or fewer vendors
- Managed Services: Nearly all respondents point to the
need for help with SASE, including six in ten (63%) using a managed
services provider for deployment and even more (75%) leaning on
providers for ongoing SASE management
“As employees return to the office and organizations adopt a
more hybrid work model to enable employees to work from anywhere,
we see more IT teams finding that, for SASE to be deployed
effectively, a Secure SD-WAN platform must be at its foundation and
consistent across on-premises and in the cloud,” said Jonathan
Nguyen-Duy, Vice President, Global Field CISO, Fortinet. “Above
all, organizations that choose solutions rooted in Security-Driven
Networking principles will ultimately be the most successful in
ensuring optimal security and connectivity between data centers,
branches, edges, and a remote workforce.”
Foundry’s CIO — the executive-level IT media brand providing
insight into business technology leadership — conducted the
research on behalf of Masergy and Fortinet. More than 200 IT
decision makers (director-level and above) were surveyed across
more than eight industries. Respondents included IT leaders working
in U.S.-headquartered companies with at least $2.4B in revenue.
Download the complete research report
About Masergy
Recognized as a pioneer in software-defined networking, Masergy
is a leading secure cloud networking platform for global enterprise
businesses. Masergy leverages artificial intelligence to enable
superior application performance, offering managed SD-WAN,
Security, Unified Communications as a Service (UcaaS), and Contact
Center as a Service (CcaaS) solutions.
Masergy was acquired by Comcast Business in October 2021 –
combining the power and scale of Comcast’s network with Masergy’s
industry-leading SLAs and exceptional customer experience to
redefine what’s possible for future-thinking businesses. Learn more
and follow us on our blog Transforming Enterprise IT, Twitter
@Masergy, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About Comcast Business
Comcast Business offers a suite of Connectivity, Communications,
Networking, Cybersecurity, Wireless, and Managed Solutions to help
organizations of different sizes prepare for what’s next. Powered
by the nation’s largest Gig-speed broadband network, and backed by
24/7 customer support, Comcast Business is the nation’s largest
cable provider to small and mid-size businesses and one of the
leading service providers to the Enterprise market. Comcast
Business has been consistently recognized by industry analysts and
associations as a leader and innovator, and one of the fastest
growing providers of Ethernet services.
For more information, call 866-429-3085. Follow on Twitter
@ComcastBusiness and on other social media networks at
http://business.comcast.com/social.
About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we
can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices,
and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises,
service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to
securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security
Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated
protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing
critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data
center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most
security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 580,000 customers
trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE
Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training
Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest
training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new
career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at
https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard
Labs.
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