We have experienced ten years of transformation across the enterprise in just the past ten months. Fueled by digital transformation and a massive shift to work-from-home, traditional enterprise networking and security infrastructures have been stretched to the breaking point. Legacy on-premises point-product approaches of yesteryear simply don’t make sense anymore. It’s time for a new model, with the Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE (pronounced “sassy”).
SASE, is quickly becoming the predominant network and security architecture that underpins our post-COVID world. SASE is the convergence of network services like SD-WAN, and security services like FWaaS, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA, into a single, cloud-delivered service model.
Join Kumar Ramachandran, SVP of Products for SASE, at Palo Alto Networks as he discusses:
- Why Networking and security must converge in the cloud
- The key use cases driving SASE adoption
- Real-world case studies of customers who have adopted SASE
Kumar serves as Senior Vice President of Products for SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) products. Kumar co-founded CloudGenix (now Prisma SD-WAN) in March 2013 and was its CEO, establishing the category of SD-WAN.
Prior to founding CloudGenix (now Prisma SD-WAN), Kumar held leadership roles in Product Management and Marketing for the multi-billion dollar branch routing and WAN optimization businesses at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, he managed applications and infrastructure for companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial.
Kumar holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.