SASE: On the Edge of Securing the Digital Future

Dell’Oro Group’s Senior Research Director, Mauricio Sanchez, explores the paradigm-shifting world of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and its impact on cybersecurity and networking. How will SASE standards and certification, AI’s role in threat detection, and the evolving digital landscape secure our digital future?

Join Mauricio, Pascal, and key decision makers driving the NaaS ecosystem at MEF’s inaugural Global Network-as-a-Service Event (GNE), 2-4 October, in Dallas. For more details and to register, visit GNE.MEF.net.

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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Mauricio Sanchez of Dell’Oro Group:

Why is SASE critical in today’s digital landscape?
How important are standardization and certification to ensuring the effectiveness of SASE solutions?
Will SASE play a role in the evolution of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)?
How does generative AI impact cybersecurity, and how can it be leveraged to enhance threat detection?
Can AI technologies make administrative improvements to network and security management in the SASE model?

About Our Guest

Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Director, Enterprise Networking & Security Market Research, Dell’Oro Group

Mauricio Sanchez joined Dell’Oro Group in 2020. With Dell’Oro Group, Mr. Sanchez leads the Network Security, SASE & SD-WAN market research programs, which will encompass ways in which contemporary network security solutions are being adopted and deployed, whether as appliances, virtually or as a service. Additionally, Mr. Sanchez helps shape the coverage of next-generation networking architectures and services models.

Mr. Sanchez brings over two decades of experience as an executive manager in networking and security technologies, products, and solutions spanning data center, campus, and mobile architectures. Prior to joining Dell’Oro Group, Mr. Sanchez served at Intel Corporation as Product Line Director of Ethernet products within Networking Division for Data Platforms Group, focused on Ethernet controllers, NICs, and SmartNICs for data center servers. Before Intel Corporation, Mr. Sanchez spent seventeen years with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in a variety of networking and security roles, focused on defining and driving security technology strategy for all HPE Networking solutions spanning product security, access control, and SDN-based real-time threat management.

Mr. Sanchez has a BS degree in Computer Engineering, an MSc in Electrical Engineering, and minor in German from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He has thirteen patents granted.

Executives at the Edge podcast is brought to you by Mplify, a global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations working together to accelerate the AI-powered digital economy through standardization, automation, certification, and collaboration.

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