Budgets Are Growing
Customers plan to increase both their networking and security budgets.
All respondents indicated that their networking and security budgets will grow by at least 10% year-over-year. One in four respondents said their networking budgets will increase by 25% or more, while slightly more than one in four (28%) said their security budgets will increase by 25% or more.
Kiran said that SASE adoption typically takes the most funds out of the security budget. However, in the case where a business already has cloud-based security point solutions but a premises-based SD-WAN solution, the networking budget will pay the brunt of the SASE costs.