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2022 Gartner® Market Guide for
Single-Vendor SASE

Screenshot of the Overview of Gartner's Market Guide for Single-Vendor SASE, published 28 September 2022 and written by Neil MacDonald, John Watts, Jonathan Forest, and Andrew Lerner. The text reads: Single-vendor SASE delivers converged network and security capabilities to connect and secure distributed users, devices and locations to resources in the cloud, edge, and on-premises. Infrastructure and operations leaders should use this research to analyze the merging single-vendor SASE market. Overview Key Findings 1. The market for well-architected single-vendor SASE offerings is immature but developing quickly, and SASE interest among our clients has been growing rapidly. 2. Multiple providers now have a single-vendor SASE offering; but few offer the required breadth and depth of functionality with integration across all components, a single management plane, and unified data model and data lake. 3. Most leading SD-WAN vendors have added a cloud-based security stack to build out a single-vendor SASE, and a few security service edge (SSE) vendors have acquired SD-WAN to deliver single-vendor SASE. 4. There are three primary options for SASE adoption – a single-vendor offering, explicit pairing of two vendors (one for network services, one for security services), and managed SASE. 5. Demand for single-vendor SASE tends to come from: smaller enterprises that don't have strongly siloed network and security teams and don't require best of breed across all capabilities, and from architecture teams in large global multinationals. Recommendations Infrastructure and operations leaders responsible for cloud and edge connectivity strategies should: 1. Engage the security organization and establish a cross-functional SASE strategy team to speed the time to value and increase the chance of a successful implementation. 2. Choose single-vendor SASE offerings that provide single-pass scanning, single unified console and data lake covering all functions to improve user experience and staff efficacy. 3. Evaluate a single-vendor SASE offering, along with two explicitly partnered vendors and managed SASE offerings to provide the most flexibility in selection and timing. 4. Have the SASE team rank RFI/RFP requirements based on what is mandatory versus preferred or optional to understand the trade-offs when a single-vendor SASE offering is used; the offering may not be best of breed in all areas. 5. Run a functional pilot with real-world users and locations, before selecting a single-vendor SASE offering, to ensure functionality and performance meet requirements.


Gartner® analysts Neil MacDonald, John Watts, Jonathan Forest, and Andrew Lerner have authored Market Guide for Single-Vendor SASE. Fortinet is listed as a Representative Vendor. Key takeaways include:

  • "The market for well-architected single-vendor SASE offerings is immature but developing quickly, and SASE interest among our clients has been growing rapidly."
  • "Multiple providers now have a single-vendor SASE offering; but few offer the required breadth and depth of functionality with integration across all components, a single management plane, and unified data model and data lake."
  • "Most leading SD-WAN vendors have added a cloud-based security stack to build out a single-vendor SASE, and a few security service edge (SSE) vendors have acquired SD-WAN to deliver single-vendor SASE."

 

Download the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Single-Vendor SASE to see why Gartner® recognizes Fortinet.


Gartner, Market Guide for Single-Vendor SASE, by Neil MacDonald, John Watts, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, 28 September 2022

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