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6 Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) For Dummies, Cisco Special Edition These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Cloud adoption The use of public cloud apps and services has exploded over the past decade. Every year, enterprises produce more data, and increasingly this data is being stored in software as a service (SaaS) applications in the public cloud. The Enterprise Strategy Group's 2019 report, The Rise of Direct Internet Access, projects that 60 percent of organizations will use SaaS applications for greater than half of their business needs over the next two years, espe- cially across highly distributed organizations. The growth of enterprise cloud adoption is further evidenced in the 2019 RightScale State of the Cloud Report from Flexera, which found that public cloud adoption, including SaaS and infrastruc- ture as a service (IaaS) has grown to 91 percent among organi- zations. Today, one-third of enterprise workloads run in public clouds and nearly half run in private clouds (see Figure 1-1). FIGURE 1-1: It's essential to have strong security protecting the increasing volume of Internet, SaaS apps, and IaaS traffic from all locations.