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As we learned in 2020, vendors predict, and the universe laughs. But this year we polled our experts at Netskope to get their view of the year to come. Here’s how we see 2021 shaping up for networking and security, in the form of some pretty safe bets, and some harder calls.
Safe Bets
Economic benefits of network and security transformation will be realized—and quantified.
As more organizations consolidate and move away from appliance-based security technologies, IT and security teams will realize the cost savings and operational efficiencies the move to cloud brings. Organizations following a cloud transformation framework model such as SASE could see cost savings average between 20-40% in the first year alone.
10% of Fortune 1000 CISOs will be asked to take on networking teams because of SASE.
As organizations continue the move to cloud, employees are no longer on a corporate network and the operational investment must move with the data. Networking and security teams will further converge, and the traditional legacy network and security stack will become less relevant.
Zero Trust and SASE will converge.
SASE architecture will be needed to truly support a holistic Zero Trust implementation, and these two requirements will be the cornerstone for any future workforce digital transformation, providing full visibility, control, and enablement for a secure cloud transformation. As remote working accelerates, and ZTNA sales grow exponentially as a result, networking teams that initially boosted their VPN spend to cover the rapid rise of home workers will see the benefits of massive ZTNA bandwidth and cost advantages. Zero Trust and SASE are inextricably linked.