Enterprises Look for Consistent Threat Protection

That prediction comes from Andrew Ossipov, Cisco’s distinguished engineer and chief technology officer for network, workload and cloud security. Ossipov noted that traditional boundaries for both users and applications are blending.

“Enterprises will expect the next-generation SASE solutions to secure inbound connections toward hybrid applications as a natural extension of existing network interconnects and threat controls. Human-readable security policies will normalize and abstract heterogenous endpoint, network and workload enforcement points across privately hosted and cloud-delivered environments. A promising future of unimpeded yet secure end-to-end connectivity necessitates a dramatically simpler user experience in SASE and beyond,” Ossipov said.