SASE Market to Grow over 500% by 2025? Yes, It Could Happen!

A new report by 650 Group estimates that by 2025 the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market will grow five-fold to reach over $11 billion. The report identifies Zscaler, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa Networks as the five market leaders in this high growth segment. First introduced in the 2019 Gartner report […]

How to Get on the Path to Effective SASE

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge): is it marketing hype or the next wave? Is it a workable security answer to the rapidly changing corporate IT environment? Are solutions marketed as SASE today true SASE products? Or are they mostly works-in-progress? And what is “true SASE” anyway? In this blog you will find answers to all […]

First Packet Advantage: A New Approach to First Packet Classification for SD-WAN and SASE

What is First Packet Processing? First packet processing is a technique for identifying applications and services in network traffic from the very first packet in a flow. This enables the instantaneous execution of application-specific rules, such as those related to unique bandwidth, latency, or security requirements. The Challenge with First Packet Processing First packet processing […]

Why is First Packet Classification So Important in Traffic Management?

What is First Packet Classification? First packet classification has become widespread within the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) component of traffic management solutions over the past couple of years. It consists of using the very first packet to identify the protocol or service related to a traffic flow (i.e. the TCP SYN segment or first UDP […]

Security Defined Networking – Expert Insights Video with genua

YES! Encrypted Traffic Can (and Must) Be Classified