The Enhanced Edge

35 - The full-spectrum blind spot SASE leaves behind

Kristian Wright Season 1 Episode 35

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SASE covers your network. It does not cover your entire attack surface. If you have been in the MSP space, you have probably been pitched SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). 

The idea that you can converge networking and security into a single cloud-delivered model. For clients with distributed workforces or heavy cloud usage, it makes architectural sense. But here is what the SASE vendors do not always make clear: SASE is a connectivity and policy enforcement layer. It is not a detection and response capability. And confusing those two things creates an exposure that attackers are happy to exploit. 

Whole-of-network protection requires visibility across every layer of your environment, not just the traffic SASE touches. SASE does not hunt for threats that have already bypassed controls. It does not correlate signals across your entire environment. It does not provide the human expertise to investigate when something looks wrong. 

This is the MSP visibility problem: the disconnect between where you deploy security tools and where attacks actually originate. You may have full SASE coverage, but if nobody is monitoring the signals it generates, or correlating them against the rest of your stack, you do not have full-spectrum protection. You have a blind spot. 

Find out how to close it, in our latest podcast.

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