Forward Overview

At the time of writing, there is no industry standard for SASE. We are currently expecting the standard to be published any day now. I have had the privilege of helping the brilliant minds that have been working to create standards for SASE with the MEF Forum for about 2 years. The people in that working group have collectively invested thousands of hours outside of their primary role to create an approach that will allow interoperability within competing SASE services. We appreciate industry analysts at Gartner, for noticing the pattern that we were each deploying into the market without collective knowledge of a trend. To each of us, it was a logical next step to solve problems that our customers presented, but the coining of the phrase SASE enabled us to create a focus on excellence in our individual SASE efforts.

To go forward, we must relearn our trade in the technology world. Getting into this industry, 30 years ago, we had to retrain every 3–5 years...