The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated cloud adoption and remote working across ASEAN, forcing organisations to rapidly modernise their technology environments. However, as workloads, users, and applications moved beyond traditional network perimeters, many organisations discovered significant gaps in visibility, security, and governance. Traditional security architectures often struggle to protect dynamic cloud environments, leading to increased complexity, inconsistent controls, and heightened cyber risk. Drawing on insights from technology decision-makers across ASEAN, this research primer explores how Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) can help organisations simplify security operations, accelerate cloud migration, support remote work, and enable digital transformation through a unified, cloud-delivered security architecture.
Read the Executive Summary for the latest insights on cloud security and SASE adoption, including:
• Rapid cloud adoption and remote work have exposed critical security gaps, including cloud misconfigurations, weak identity and access management, insecure APIs, and inconsistent security controls across multi-cloud environments.
• Traditional network perimeter security is no longer sufficient as data, applications, and users increasingly operate outside the corporate datacentre, requiring new security approaches built for distributed environments.
• A Zero Trust approach built on the principle of “never trust, always verify” is becoming essential for securing cloud environments, reducing risk, and strengthening resilience against modern cyber threats.
• SASE integrates networking and security services into a single cloud-native platform, enabling organisations to improve visibility, simplify management, strengthen security, and accelerate digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives.