In the world, the 80/20 rule often serves as the main principle: the focus on 80%, which brings the most values, and the remaining 20% can be added later or with Lets intensity. But when it comes to network safety, this thinking is a dangerous illusion. The “good enough” approach, where you can secure most of your operations or users, leaves the door open to sophisticated threats lurking in the remaining 20%- older application, undeveloped devices, remote suppliers and growing AOL use.
Today’s dynamic envaliques, controlled by hybrid work, by receiving multi-cloud and IoT and AI explosion, require a security strategy that covers 100% of your digital track, 100% of time. As the IDC analytical company emphasizes in a recent study1Organizations navigate the comprehensive combination of mandates to return to the office, geopolic tension and developing data on the sovereignty of data, causing traditional security models based on the perimeter.
Secure Access Service Edge (SAS) architecture has appeared as a strategic reaction, converging networks and security in the unified framework of the delivered cloud that puts security directly into the network.
This approach allows you to create points of microborars who are dynamically located closer to users, devices, and applications that are secure, high -performance approach regardless of rental.
FIG. 1: IDC Spotlight, Sponsored: Cisco, SAS Results exceed expectations, #53593725, June 2025
Cracks in “good enough”: why do unrelated systems fail
Network and security have been working for too long in forces, each with its own tools, teams and goals. Although this approach might seem “good enough” in simpler times, it now has a significant imitation. According to Resecus Enterprise Security Group, almost half of the organizations (38% much more difficult, 27% somewhat more difficult) find that holding separate technologies for networks and security have become more difficult over the last two years.
FIG. 2: Research of the Group of Business Security on Unifying Network and Security
This fragmentation leads to critical challenges: ensuring the application of policy across users and applications, maintaining visibility across devices, and even enfining the correct network performance is the highest concerns for organizations with separate piles of tools. In addition, teams often face communication problems, conflict goals and inefficient workflows, which makes the truly unified safety posture elusive.
Interestingly, the study reveals a fascinating paradox: an organization planning The OFN often has very modest expectations on improvisions of security attitudes, with only 11% tightening significant benefits in advance. But after deployment, the reality tells a different and happier story.
SASE Results exceed expectations: realized benefits of security and network
FIG. 3: Data from the Group of Business Strategy
The good news is that it is not just about solving problems; It is about achieving better results. The study strongly states that organizations that have implemented SASE significant reporting improved body posture and network performance.2
Research from the Enterprise Strategy Group group configns this trend. These findings emphasize that not only addresses immediate pain points, but also brings tangible and measurable improvements that far exceeds initial expectations. After all, whenever technology can support a better team connection – between network and security – the better the results.
Look at it all: Unlocking the visibility end-to-end
You can protect what you don’t see. The fragmented nature of traditional network and safety architectures is left by blind spots that the attackers represent. Cisco Sase deals with the front and provides deep and comprehensive visibility throughout your digital landscape.
It is not just a basic network monitoring; They are smart knowledge. Cisco Sase uses a strong ability, such as thousands and identity intelligence to give you end-to-end visibility, even across networks that you do not own or manage. Ai-Power analysts include the recommendations of predictive ways as part of our SD-WA, helping you predict the network before they turn on performance. This understanding of understanding applies to the emerging areas such as the use of generative AI applications, while Cisco SASA offers AI access with discovery and control for more than 1,200 AI applications, ensuring that you have confidence and visibility to manage and ensure their adoption within your organization.
Protect it all: to secure each user, device and application
Challenges “Invisible 20%”-older applications, BYOD devices, third-party suppliers and IoT/OT-Jsu exactly what Cisco Sase is designed for defense. Traditional approaches often fight for exnden include the safety of these different scenarios, leading to gaps in coverage or complex multipolitical management.
Cisco Sase seizes you to protect all of your assets and approaches to access scenario – by centrally determining the global approach policies that are enforced locally, where through your network infrastructure or a single endpoint. This means that it consists of security for all types of applications, users and access scenarios. With an approach to identity-stridt, you can potentiate micro-segmentation policies based on user, posture and application context, and for all, including suppliers and not managed devices. Cisco Secure is a unified agent that supports VPN, VPNAAS, ZTNA and SD-WAN integration, protects over 180 million endpoints, allows posture-based controls and provides the least access to private and internet destinations.
Get off everywhere: A hassle -free experience, appropriate safety
FIG. 4: Data from the Enterprise Security Group
When it comes to hybrid work, performance cannot be sacrificed for safety. Users expect smooth and high-speed access to applications from anywhere-and are already at a branch, at home or on the go. Cisco Sase ensures resistance and productivity by optimizing access to applications and providing smooth transition from older VPNs to a cloud network network (ZTNA).
Research in the Business Security Group emphasizes that improving the efficacy of safety and better support for hybrid work models is the key factors for receiving SASE. Cisco Sase brings this by using a robust global network network (POP) and advanced technologies such as Masque, Quic and Vector Packet Processing (VPP) for high -performance network access. This ensures that it involves high-performance connectivity, even for modern applications such as Genai’s workload, and optimizes SAAS connectivity and branch-to-day cases of SASE use in cutlery.
Team joining: The power of convergence and benefits for one supplier
Perhaps one of the most transformative advantages of SASA is the ability to divide the traditional force between the net and the security teams. Enterprise Security Group’s research suggests that 61% of organizations evaluate technology and processes and processes as the highest IT priority, with another 34% to see them among their highest priorities.
FIG. 5: Data Group Business Security on network and security convergence
Cisco Sase makes this convergence easier, leading to better cooperation between network and security teams, improved alignment of network and security police and a faster problem. Finlly, let’s not forget that we all users. One supplier SASE deliviized a user experience, as seen by almost half of the organizations that have erased on the way of SASE.
Do not settle for “good enough”
The digital landscape is too complex and the threats are too sophisticated to rely on the 80/20 security strategy. Cisco Sase offers understanding, a converged solution that allows you to see everything, protect them everything and perform everywhere, ensure that your organization is truly resistant to tomorrow’s challenges. It is a way that not only meets but often Excessive expectation For security and power performance.
Are you prepared deeper into the benefits of united SASA architecture?
1 IDC Spotlight, Sponsored: Cisco, SAS Results exceeding expectations, #53593725, June 2025 2 IDC Spotlight, Sponsored: Cisco, SAS Results exceeding expectations, #53593725, June 2025
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