Let’s start at the source. In 2019, Gartner introduced the new market category SASE (short for Secure Access Service Edge and pronounced “sassy”). SASE marked a stark change in the IT networking and network security industry. Rather than speaking to new functions or features, Gartner defined SASE as an evolution of convergence. This meant that network and security point solutions needed to become one seamless solution that converged network and security into a unified platform. SASE converges SD-WAN and a number of network security point solutions (FWaaS, CASB, SWG and ZTNA) with consolidated management, into one, holistic, converged and cloud-native service.