Saturday, December 12, 2020

The truth about SASE?

Sorry if this is better suited for a netsec sub... but it seems you fellow networkers will be the ones who can best see through this smoke screen from the sales bots. I just feel like implementing a SASE solution just makes such little sense from a networking and security perspective. These vendors try to make this solution sound magical and vague, to where you don’t really understand what it does, so you’ll believe it’ll do everything.

But the truth is... it’s just firewall in the cloud. That really seems to be it. So you’re just outsourcing Firewall to the cloud. And adding all the latency involved with doing that. Giving up latency and throughput and honestly yes, security. It’s less secure. All your sensitive data now belongs to another company and all your data is sharing a virtual instance of a firewall used by many other customers. And you’re giving up control and visibility at the same time.

Am I missing something? Why would you do this? I just can’t come up with any real benefit here.



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