Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged as a critical architecture for enterprises seeking to meet the challenges of modern perimeterless access, requiring them to seamlessly unify networking and security. However, purchasing a SASE solution can be one of the most high-impact yet complex decisions that IT teams face today. Effective SASE requires the integration of multiple underlying technologies to be successful: SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust, Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Brokers, Data Loss Prevention, and Sandboxing.
Properly evaluating a product or solution combining this much functionality and internal level of integration is daunting and resource intensive.
This SASE RFP is the brainchild of Matt Palmer, founder of Decision Insights, a new research platform designed for how enterprise IT buying works in today’s world. Their mission is to help IT buyers make informed decisions, faster.
Matt’s vision is similar to ours at CyberRatings. We help enterprises make better decisions through objective and rigorous testing and auditing of security technologies, products, and services. The SASE RFP includes an editorial on why independent testing matters and why many buyers are now relying on verified testing results based on evidentiary data before making their final product selection. The RFP also takes a deep technical dive to help teams understand how to verify functionality and security claims.
We’re delighted to be working with SDxCentral, Decision Insights and Keysight on this new SASE RFP framework. The evaluation kit is a downloadable RFP template from DecisionInsights.ai, built specifically for buyers and spun out of SDxCentral. The kit comes complete with a vendor response spreadsheet and step-by-step guides to help teams run a well-organized and well-documented evaluation process that covers the critical care-abouts in selecting a SASE offering.
To get started visit the Independent RFP for SASE Buyers at SDxCentral.
The CyberRatings Team