Cisco was named a challenger; Skyhigh Security, Forcepoint and Lookout as "visionaries"; and Broadcom, iBoss and Cloudflare as "niche players."

The firm predicts nearly half of the cybersecurity leaders will change jobs by 2025.

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Gartner's Andrew Lerner compared the relationship between 5G and secure access service edge to a new car on a new road.

Analyst John Tolbert predicts a “bigger emphasis on data protection, especially at the endpoint, and then just broader endpoint security integration.”

"Nobody can just walk into a building and connect to the network," Nile VP Austin Hawthorne said.

Dell'Oro Group expects security service edge to “kill the traditional [secure web gateway] appliance business."

"Zero trust has gone from an academic theory, to a best practice, to simply how modern security is done,” Forcepoint VP Jim Fulton told SDxCentral.

"Everyone thinks [secure access service edge] is only for remote workers, and that’s not right,” CEO Kelly Ahuja said.

“Zero trust is at this peak of inflated expectations, so we should see some rationalization of the hype this year,” analyst John Watts said.

CEO Ramesh Prabagaran said every single enterprise 'has run into a problem with respect to posture and performance'

Analyst David Bicknell expects zero-trust officer roles to emerge to “coax, cajole, and bully companies on their zero-trust journey.”

John Graham-Cumming claims the key to a single-vendor secure access service edge is to provide unified management across all SASE capabilities.

“Anything that doesn't have data security technologies at its core misses the whole point,” Forcepoint VP Jim Fulton said.

SVP Kumar Ramachandran said the vendor will release new capabilities in 2023 that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance IT in “exciting new ways."

Dell also aims to be the Switzerland of organizing the zero-trust ecosystem, according to Global CTO John Roese

'A key pillar of what's going to define success in SSE is public and local edge,' Axis VP Chris Hines said.

The FIDO Alliance and its partners, including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, introduced the term 'passkey' to replace passwords

Executives from vendors that Gartner says offer complete secure access service edge solutions give their 2023 predictions for the evolving market

Zero-trust security continued to gain momentum in 2022 with support from governments and the private sector.

The firm expects more than 60% of organizations will have multiple firewall deployments by 2026

SDxCentral listed Snyk, Cybereason, Netskope, Lacework, and Illumio as the security unicorns that we expected to go public in 2022, but none of those happened.

Zero trust is built on three established security principles: least privilege, separation of duties, and defense in depth, Forrester said.

"I sell SASE and SD-WAN, but very few SD-WAN players are SASE-capable," Nikesh Arora said.