Zero Trust and SASE have become top of mind for many organizations globally in the past year as business models changed overnight to accommodate a remote workforce, bringing an expanded attack surface. Zero Trust is an enterprise-wide strategy to eliminate risk to the business, whereas SASE provides guidance for vendors to design effective security solutions for the future. While SASE outlines what a solution should have to provide secure access at the edge, other Zero Trust requirements on effective monitoring of threats to the business, continuous maintenance of the environment, and aligning solutions to governance and compliance requirements go beyond any single technical solution.
While organizations continue to seek implementation of both, they must understand their similarities and most importantly, how they reinforce each other. When reading Gartner’s research on SASE, businesses may think implementing SASE will also implement Zero Trust. This is not a complete approach and it takes multiple initiatives for organizations to properly implement each. Here we’ll discuss these similarities and additional initiatives for successful implementation.