SASE Co-managed

Co-management, or cooperative management, is an agreement to share management responsibilities between two or more parties. This concept works well in arrangements where there is a clear delineation of responsibilities with discrete control mechanisms for each party to control their assigned area of management. An example of positive delineation of management or control is in cloud computing, where the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) is responsible for all platform operational activities, and the subscriber or tenant is in control of any service or application operating on top of that platform. In the CSP and subscriber relationship, there are clear boundaries with clear expectations from both parties.

With SASE, SD-WAN, security solutions, and related technologies, the lines of delineation seem to blur, as the management and control plane functions are designed for a single management operator. Often, due to the skills required for a successful operation of innovative...