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CHAPTER 3 SASE: Combining Security and Networking Functionality 23 These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. These benefits are critical for organizations that need to address the modern networking and security challenges of an increasingly cloud-first, distributed, mobile, and global workforce. Starting Your SASE Journey SASE is a broad concept. To keep things simple, you should look for a flexible way to get started and make demonstrable prog- ress toward your organization's goals. That being said, two major SASE concepts are consolidation and simplification, so it makes sense to chart a course that includes both networking and security elements from a single vendor. There are many technical, cost, and end-user performance advantages to this type of combined approach (see Figure 3-1). With these combined benefits in mind it makes sense to look at the logical first step in both networking and security. Networking first step Begin by looking at the many benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and start a trial to show the impact it could have on your networking service costs, performance, and management tasks. As you develop a plan for SD-WAN, you should also decide the best way to secure the new traffic flows, especially from the increasing number of remote branches and FIGURE 3-1: The benefits of an integrated networking and security approach. Source: Cisco