To write down our 2023 Community Safety Evaluation, we requested a mix of carriers and MSPs, SD-WAN distributors, and pure-play safety distributors to inform us about their community safety choices.
The overwhelming majority of our survey respondents have been from carriers/MSPs, that means they typically supply the safety infrastructure and software program from pure-play safety distributors reasonably than creating their very own safety companies.
Most suppliers used a couple of safety channel accomplice to supply their companies.
Partnering with a number of safety distributors permits suppliers to safe a best-in-breed strategy for various parts of the framework.
Partnering with a number of safety distributors permits suppliers to safe a best-in-breed strategy for various parts of the framework.
Carriers/MSPs may additionally use a number of channel companions for a similar product to satisfy completely different buyer wants.
To distill which safety suppliers have been commonest, along with analyzing mixture totals, we checked out listed safety companions by product.
The determine beneath particulars safety companions throughout all SASE merchandise.
SASE Companions (2023)
Notes: Every bar represents the full variety of respondents who famous a partnership with every vendor. Supply: TeleGeography © 2023 TeleGeography- Palo Alto was the most typical safety accomplice throughout all SASE merchandise, and 9 particular person carriers/MSPs listed it as a accomplice for a number of companies.
- Cisco (together with Meraki, Viptela, Umbrella, and Duo) was the following commonest safety accomplice with seven carriers/MSPs itemizing it.
- There’s a lengthy tail of different safety companions with some number of prominence, together with Fortinet, Zscaler, Netscout, and VMware.
- As a result of we allowed respondents to sort of their solutions reasonably than select from a predetermined checklist, we obtained a protracted checklist of companions who have been solely listed as soon as. These have been all positioned into the “Different” class, which makes up 15 particular person companions.
Because the community safety market continues to evolve, some further consolidation amongst safety suppliers appears doubtless.
Presently, we see a really lengthy tail of channel companions for a lot of SASE and ZTS merchandise, which suggests area for consolidation as sure suppliers emerge as your best option for varied buyer varieties.
This evaluation was pulled from the brand new SASE module of our Cloud and WAN Analysis Service.
Study extra about this distinctive analysis suite over right here.
