Coined by Gartner in 2019, SASE, an acronym for Secure Access Service Edge, applies to a model in which networking and cybersecurity are fully converged and delivered as a service via distributed edge clouds. This simplifies network management and boosts performance by bringing users and resources closer together. SASE also enhances security by segmenting traffic and applying security rules and resources according to the unique profile and context of each traffic flow.

To successfully deliver on these SASE promises requires comprehensive, real-time traffic visibility. It is this visibility that enables consistent, outstanding performance across today’s continuously evolving, complex and distributed networks.

This whitepaper explores how to achieve SASE success by using a variety of inspection techniques that combine advanced traffic classification with new inspection methods to meet the very specific demands of the SASE framework.