SASE Managed

SASE is a different approach that requires the experience level of the best engineers to be reset to zero. It is time to start the educational process over and set aside pride to humbly achieve SASE success. Once at zero, the process can take six weeks to six months to achieve basic proficiency with design, implementation, and troubleshooting skills. Unless your organization is an infrastructure or network security software developer as your primary revenue source, an ROI will not be forthcoming, and re-tooling the network and security engineering team offers little value to shareholders or customers. Outsourcing to the correct Managed Services Partner (MSP) allows the technology to provide business value much more quickly and allows the technology to change at the speed of the market.

In this chapter, we will discuss management topics, basic management models, the value of each management model, how to make SASE effective to scale, and the sub-components needed to...