Forward Present

The present model for SASE is the baseline for the future. In conversation, the practical application of the Zero Trust Framework has been an impossible goal. In fact, with every challenging goal throughout history, the next achievement is always considered impossible to those rational thinkers that talk through the reasons why achievement will be forever elusive. It is good to be rational, but it may be impossible to find a financial benefit to rational thinking.

While great minds consider a problem rationally, there is often someone in the next room that is executing a solution to the problem by leveraging less than rational methods, such as trial and error.

SASE services are production-ready and have been so prior to the writing of this book. Many thousands of organizations have been operating SASE in production, with a few hundred having a Zero Trust Framework (ZTF) in place. It is worth noting that many conversations taking place at the time this book was...