SASE: State of the Industry Report — 2023 May
Primary Resource for: SASE, SSE Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SD-WAN Certification
Product Portfolio: SASE
How standards-based SASE certification addresses the pressing need for validated cyber defense and application performance.
MEF SASE Certification Data Sheet for Technology Providers — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification, SASE, SD-WAN Certification
MEF SASE Certification Data Sheet for Service Providers — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: SASE, SD-WAN Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification
MEF 118.1 MEF 118.1 Zero Trust Framework for MEF Services — 2024 Jul
Primary Resource for: SASE, Zero Trust, Zero Trust Certification
Product Portfolio: SASE, Zero Trust
Standard Type: Service Definitions
This standard defines a framework and requirements addressing Identity and Authentication of the different Actors plus Policy-Based Access Control providing enforcement at Policy End Points.
MEF 151 MEF 151 Cross-Connection Service Attributes — 2024 Apr
Primary Resource for: IP
Product Portfolio: IP
Standard Type: Service Attributes
Service Providers often deliver services to locations where cross-connections between the Service Provider and Subscriber, or between two Operators, are managed by a third party such as a data center provider or multi-tenant building owner.
Amends: 125
Primary Resource for: Subscriber Carrier Ethernet, LSO Cantata, LSO Sonata
Product Portfolio: LSO Cantata, Subscriber Carrier Ethernet, LSO Sonata
Standard Type: Information and Data Models
Tags: LSO Cantata, LSO Sonata
This document is an Amendment to MEF 125 LSO Cantata and LSO Sonata - Subscriber Ethernet Product Schemas and Developer Guide.
MEF Certified SASE RFI Template for Enterprises — 2025 Feb
Primary Resource for: SASE, SASE Certification, SSE Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SD-WAN Certification, Enterprise APIs
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 MEF 138 Security Functions for IP Services — 2024 Jul
Primary Resource for: Cybersecurity, SASE, SASE Certification, SSE, SSE Certification, IP, SD-WAN
Product Portfolio: Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification, IP
Standard Type: Service Attributes
This Standard specifies the requirements needed to add Security Functions to an IP Service.
MEF 70.2 MEF 70.2 SD-WAN Service Attributes and Service Framework — 2023 Oct
Primary Resource for: SD-WAN
Product Portfolio: SD-WAN
Standard Type: Service Attributes
The SD-WAN Service Attributes and Service Framework Standard defines the externally visible behavior of a MEF SD-WAN Service.
MEF 163 Draft (R3) MEF 163 Draft Release 3 Zero Trust Certification Test Cases and Requirements — 2024 May
Primary Resource for: Zero Trust, Zero Trust Certification
Product Portfolio: Zero Trust Certification, Zero Trust
Standard Type: Test Requirements & Abstract Test Suites
A Zero Trust Framework (ZTF), defined in MEF 118, is a cybersecurity architecture where users or clients (end users, applications, and other nonhuman Users, Devices, and Applications that request information from resources) are authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated before being granted access to, maintaining access to, or performing operations on applications.