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2024 is expected to be another year of strong growth in the SASE market. Dell’Oro Group predicts the SASE market will surpass $10 billion by the end of the year “representing more than a doubling of the total market in three years,” according to Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Research Director of Dell’Oro Group. Gartner expects the market for SASE to reach $25 billion by 2027. What’s driving this trend?

Fresh from the recent.conf24 user conference in fabulous Las Vegas, I thought I’d share what I thought were some of the key points throughout the week. Along with admiring the traditional display of fezzes and capes throughout the week, we were excited about the great conversations with our customers, business partners, Splunkers, and, of course, the lovely Buttercup.

The concept of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) promised a revolution in network security. Its core intent: to simplify the deployment and consumption of both networking and security functions. However, does the reality really live up to the initial hype?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a robust cybersecurity regulation in the European Union (EU) taking effect next year. It is designed to help protect against evolving digital threats to financial systems. Like GDPR, the scope of DORA isn’t only limited to financial services companies and banks. Service providers in Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) and third-party vendors are also on the hook. If you haven’t been preparing, the time to be is now.

I recently came across the "Johari Window Model" and thought this would be a good way to gain inspiration to explain the conundrum faced by many cybersecurity customers. The table below shows us the breakdown of the stages that are applicable not just to IT and OT environments but also to other facets of our daily lives. This model can be applied to asset discovery and Fortra's Security Configuration Management (SCM) system.