Fri, 1 May 2026

The State of SD-WAN, SASE and Zero Trust Security Architectures

The Ponemon Institute surveyed 1,826 security and networking practitioners globally and found that 71% would select a best-in-breed vendor when deploying both SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security for a SASE architecture. Meaning, respondents do not want to be locked into a single vendor.

Besides the majority saying that they would select a best-in-breed vendor when deploying both SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security for a SASE architecture, other key findings included:

 

  • Organisations that are highly confident that their security architecture and implementation are effective, are leading in the deployment of Zero Trust, SASE, and SD-WAN.
  • Zero Trust is more widely known than SASE, but both play a key role in protecting the organisation.
  • There is a growing collaboration between the network and security teams.

Click here to download to learn the Ponemon Institute’s findings on 3 organisational phases – awareness, readiness, deployment – of these 3 critical architectures and cloud-delivered security as a whole.

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