Transform Your Network & Security Strategy with Managed SASE
IDC InfoBites: why enterprises hand SASE operations to a managed service.
Why it is worth reading
Network transformation is under pressure from two sides: bandwidth requirements are climbing steeply while CEOs shift spending toward digital business initiatives. Yet many current SASE implementations underdeliver - deployment-model complexity, vendor sprawl, fragmented orchestration, and multiple SLAs strand the benefits the architecture promised.
This IDC InfoBite by Research VP Ghassan Abdo, sponsored by Open Systems, condenses IDC's SASE Buyer Insights survey data into six pages: what a unified platform changes for security and TCO, what centralized orchestration adds for visibility and compliance, and why 45% of enterprises now prefer a managed SASE solution.
What is inside
- Network transformation underpins digital businessCEO spending shifts and steep bandwidth growth put pressure on IT leaders to accelerate transformation.
- SASE benefits are strandedDeployment-model complexity, vendor sprawl, fragmented orchestration, and multiple SLAs make current implementations suboptimal.
- What a unified SASE platform deliversSecure access to hybrid environments, optimized connectivity and lower TCO, and a consistent security posture across all users.
- Centralized orchestrationUniform configuration changes, holistic monitoring, and compliance with GDPR, NIS2, and DORA - aligned with Zero Trust.
- Managed services de-risk the road mapA managed model absorbs technology complexity and talent gaps and simplifies the commercial framework to a single SLA.
Current SASE implementations are suboptimal, resulting in security policy complexities and networking misconfigurations.Who it is for
- IT and network leaders planning their SASE road map
- CIOs building the business case for managed network transformation
- Security and infrastructure teams dealing with SASE vendor sprawl
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