Customers Need a Secure Access Service Edge in 2021 and Beyond

Customers need to navigate an increasingly complex technology landscape, and they can’t do it alone.

That’s according to Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, Fortinet’s vice president of field CISO strategic services. Nguyen-Duy said the rise of hybrid, multi-cloud IT environments has led to increased speed and complexity that businesses need help mastering. The pandemic accelerated a trend that was already forming: the movement of businesses to a distributed computing model.

“There’s no such thing as a brick-and-mortar company today,” Nguyen-Duy said. “Everyone operates works in a digitized, contactless marketplace.”

In the face of rising complexity, many customers are looking to consolidate networking and advanced security features into a single platform. This is what many vendors are calling the secure access service edge (SASE).

Nguyen-Duy spoke about SASE, increasingly complex security challenges and the role partners play in advising their customers.