Summary

SASE management is more complex to build than the management of previous services, as policies must interlock to provide effective secure communication. A systematic, hierarchical, template-based, and automated approach to SASE management can pave the way for unprecedented levels of scale to manage the evolving needs of any organization. Putting more effort into the initial design and deployment of a management platform and its supporting systems can reduce costs, labor, and compliance efforts.

If the concept of baking a cake with 1,000 mini-tasks to complete causes you concern, it should. There is no feasible way for a human to complete the increasing level of tasks required for managing any environment in real-time. A combination of DevOps practices with effective management systems (that include orchestration and AIOps) is required to achieve success. The automated systems break working environments if complex or compound policies are utilized. Each process has to be...