Enterprises individually face the third largest economy of the world after those of the US and China—the cybercrime economy that is growing 15% each year. It was a $3 trillion industry in 2015 and will grow to a $10.5 trillion industry by 2025. The cybercrime economy already costs the real and productive global economy a trillion dollars in damages annually.
Enterprises also face a bewildering range of cybersecurity solutions that tackle different layers and areas of the cyberthreat landscape, as well as increasing demands for compliance from regulators, shareholders, and insurance companies.
In response to these major challenges for enterprises worldwide, leading cybersecurity and application assurance technology providers have helped to develop and publish industry standards and drive a new, modular SASE Certification program underpinned by those standards. Together, these standards and certification program help service providers deliver services that protect their enterprise customers in the constantly evolving worlds of cybercrime and cybersecurity.
State of the Industry Report: SASE
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SASE Certification = SD-WAN Certification + SSE Certification + Zero Trust Certification
The SASE Certification program enables service providers to inherit comprehensive SASE, or any individual certifications, from their technology providers.
Technology providers, in turn, must complete rigorous certification testing to validate the effectiveness of their SD-WAN, SSE, Zero Trust components in the following categories:
Demonstrate effective and transparent application assurance and security against known and evolving cyber threats.
All SASE certifications for service providers are listed in the Services Certification Registry
MEF-Certified SASE and SD-WAN Webinar — 2025 Apr
Product Portfolio: SASE, SD-WAN Certification, SASE Certification, SD-WAN
Tags: SASE
Looking to stand out in the competitive SASE and SD-WAN market? In this webinar, you'll discover how MEF certification enables service providers to offer high-performance solutions validated against stringent security and application performance criteria.
MEF SASE Certification – Frequently Asked Questions — 2025 Mar
Product Portfolio: SD-WAN Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification, SASE
Tags: Certification
Addressing over 40 common questions with links to additional materials.
MEF Certified SASE RFI Template for Enterprises — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: Enterprise APIs, SASE, SD-WAN Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification
This RFI template helps enterprise buyers evaluate certified, standards-based Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions that integrate SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and Security Service Edge (SSE) capabilities.
MEF 138 Security Functions for IP Services — 2024 Jul
Product Portfolio: Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification, IP
This Standard specifies the requirements needed to add Security Functions to an IP Service.