SASE can include other capabilities as well, but those have been the four core capabilities that Gartner analysts have pointed to in the past.Ī simple way to understand SSE, vs. SASE offers a flexible and “anywhere, anytime” approach to providing secure remote access by delivering multiple capabilities, including secure web gateway (SWG) for protecting devices from web-based threats cloud access security broker (CASB), which serves as an intermediary between users and cloud providers to ensure enforcement of security policies next-generation firewalls and zero-trust network access (ZTNA), which considers context - such as identity, location, and device health - before granting remote access to applications. The idea of SASE is to offer a more dynamic and decentralized security architecture than existing network security architectures, since it accounts for the large number of users, devices, applications and data that are now located outside the enterprise perimeter. Another six companies were listed in the new Gartner report as “honorable mentions,” but were left out of the Magic Quadrant itself due to a lack of some of the core SSE functionality as of the end of August 2021 (Microsoft among them).
