The Top Five Ways SASE is Transforming Security

By Special Guest
Jon Taylor, Director and Principal of Security, Versa Networks | August 20, 2025

With breaches happening at an unprecedented scale, it feels like the threat actors are faster, more coordinated, and better funded than ever before – and that they’re winning. AT&T (News - Alert), UnitedHealth, and the French government have each suffered incidents over this past year that exposed tens of millions of records. Despite spending more money on security, many organizations like these find themselves falling further behind. Why is this?

The answer is that the traditional model of cybersecurity – layering point solutions in a “defense-in-depth” strategy – is buckling under its own weight.

The Achilles’ Heel of Traditional Defense-in-Depth

For years, CISOs have relied on a defense-in-depth strategy built with layers of security to protect the physical perimeter, the endpoint, the applications, and the data that flows between them. The idea seemed solid for a time: Apply ...