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🛡️ At the SASE Summit 2026, industry and Fortinet experts explored how AI, unified networking and security, and sovereignty requirements are shaping the future of SASE. Speakers emphasized the need to secure new AI-driven users and agents, integrate networking, identity, and security under a common architecture, and provide flexible sovereign deployment options. The summit framed these trends around a new model of autonomous trust.

🚀 KDDI Corporation has launched the "SASE Gateway powered by Palo Alto Networks" using the new SP Interconnect (SPI) architecture to directly link carrier-grade closed networks (WVS2) with Prisma SASE. The service eliminates IPsec overhead, enhances performance and flexibility for Japanese enterprises, and centralizes security management under a single policy engine. It can be extended with Cortex XDR, Prisma Browser and SOC/IR services to support AI adoption, hybrid work and cloud migration.

🛡️ Fortinet invites security and IT leaders to the 2026 SASE Summit, "The Age of Autonomous Trust," on September 15 and 17. Speakers include Gartner analysts and Fortinet experts discussing how AI, LLMs, agents, and distributed interactions reshape access, data movement, and policy enforcement. Sessions cover securing GenAI, extending trust to AI-driven activity, modernizing access beyond VPNs, and addressing sovereignty through Sovereign SASE deployments.

🚀 Palo Alto Networks announced it was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrants for both SASE and SSE, the fourth consecutive year it has achieved this distinction. The company highlights its Prisma Access and Prisma SASE platforms as leading in execution and vision, and emphasizes AI-driven defenses and agent-aware security to address emerging risks from GenAI and Frontier AI. Palo Alto cites growth metrics and customer adoption to validate its strategic direction.

🔒 Cloudflare reports it was named the only vendor recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge. The post credits customer feedback and highlights Cloudflare One’s unified SASE architecture, built-in AI agent governance, native post-quantum encryption, and predictable pricing. It argues that modern SASE must be composable, programmable, and ready for agentic operations and quantum threats.

🔒 Fortinet introduced the midrange FortiGate 1200G series running FortiOS 8.0, offering 10G–100G connectivity and 397 Gbps firewall throughput for campus, data center, and hybrid environments. The appliances can operate as a local SASE POP via FortiSASE Outpost, extending cloud-managed policy enforcement, visibility, and zero-trust controls to on-premises sites while keeping logs and traffic within customer boundaries. Availability is slated for Q3 2026.

🔒 Fortinet outlines why unified SASE must be genuinely integrated rather than assembled from disparate products. The company highlights AI-driven security, autonomous operations, and digital experience convergence as core innovations within its FortiOS-based platform. Fortinet emphasizes hardware acceleration with FortiASIC, sovereign deployment options, and consistent policy enforcement across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. Customer recognitions and analyst placements are cited as validation of the platform’s maturity.

🔒 CISA has issued guidance to help federal agencies transition from perimeter-based Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 2.0 to a more flexible TIC 3.0 using Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology. The guidance explains how SASE can replace legacy Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services (MTIPS) and combines networking and security functions such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, CASBs, next-gen firewalls and ZTNA. It is vendor-agnostic and emphasizes architecture and visibility requirements rather than specific products.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks announces the next evolution of Prisma SASE, engineered to secure the emerging era of agentic AI by treating autonomous agents as first-class identities. The platform reimagines Prisma Browser as a secure AI workspace, extending AI-powered data protection across endpoints, network, SaaS and GenAI apps while detecting prompt injection and agent hijacking. It also adds autonomous operations and resilient deployment options, including SASE Private Location and hyperscaler integration, to ensure always-on performance for machine-speed workflows.

🔁 Cloudflare and CDW present a pragmatic, phased approach to migrate from legacy VPNs to a SASE-based Zero Trust architecture, prioritizing coexistence over disruptive cutovers. Their methodology uses a risk-aware, tiered application classification and Cloudflare Access wrapping to add SSO, MFA, and outbound-only tunnels without rewriting legacy code. The approach couples a pre-migration audit with staged pilots and dual-client rollouts to preserve service continuity and provide rollback paths.

🔒 Cloudflare argues that SASE and Zero Trust migrations no longer need to be multi-year projects. Partners such as TachTech and Adapture report compressing deployments from 18 months to as little as four to six weeks by using the Cloudflare One platform. Key accelerators include identity-first on-ramps, a consolidated policy engine for SWG and ZTNA, and cloud-native connectors like cloudflared. The platform's extensibility also supports custom environments and provides AI-focused controls for safer LLM adoption.

🚀 Organizations are rethinking the corporate network as perimeter-less and AI-driven, and Cloudflare argues that an agile SASE approach is required to escape legacy fragmentation and operational silos. Cloudflare One is promoted as a composable, single-pass SASE platform built on a global network that runs concurrent security checks to eliminate service-chaining and enable consistent, enforceable policy. This week Cloudflare will publish technical deep-dives across identity, AI-driven signal processing, the autonomous edge, and unified enterprise modernization, and recommends incremental adoption starting with remote access, email protection, DNS filtering, and safe AI governance.

🔧 Cloudflare outlines a truly programmable SASE that lets customers run real-time, inline logic at the edge to make decisions rather than just trigger alerts. Beyond basic APIs, webhooks, and Terraform, Cloudflare One and the Developer Platform enable invoking Workers on policy matches to enrich requests, call risk engines, inject headers, and route traffic with millisecond latency. The post describes managed and custom actions, demonstrates an automated device session revocation Worker, and previews deeper integration and custom action support through 2026.

📣 The Voice of the Customer track highlights customer-led sessions focused on real-world operational challenges in security and networking. Speakers from industries such as retail, media, healthcare, and industrial operations share practical decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes using approaches like unified SASE, secure SD-WAN, cloud security, and automation. Emphasis is on results—policy consistency, improved visibility, faster incident response, and operational scalability—rather than idealized architectures.

🔒 Fortinet's Accelerate 2026 returns to Las Vegas March 9–13, bringing customers, partners, and industry leaders together at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for keynotes, technical sessions, and an expansive Tech Expo. The event emphasizes an integrated platform approach to secure networking, unified SASE, cloud and OT protection, and AI-enhanced detection and automation. Customer-led sessions from organizations such as Lowe’s, TJX, and ExxonMobil will share practical implementations, while attendees can pursue certifications, hands-on workshops, and the Fortinet Ultimate Fabric Challenge to translate strategy into operational outcomes.

🔐 This article outlines seven certification programs from leading vendors that validate skills in converged, cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures. It summarizes entry to professional-level credentials from Cato Networks, Cisco, Fortinet, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Versa, and Zscaler, highlighting target audiences, exam formats, costs, and key competencies such as SD‑WAN, ZTNA, CASB and FWaaS. The piece also notes Gartner’s market projection and emphasizes that these credentials address a widening skills gap as enterprises migrate from perimeter-based defenses.

🔒Fortinet positions secure SD-WAN as the essential foundation for effective SASE, arguing that unified networking and security deliver consistent policy enforcement and optimized connectivity across hybrid and cloud environments. Integrated capabilities such as local internet breakout, built-in ZTNA, and application-aware routing reduce latency and attack surface while improving user experience. AI-enhanced operations and centralized management simplify troubleshooting and accelerate deployments.

🔒 This article identifies seven security practices that have become obsolete in modern, cloud-first and hybrid workplaces. Contributors including Amit Basu, George Gerchow and others warn against relying on perimeter defenses, legacy VPNs, SMS-based 2FA and on-premises SIEMs, and caution about overreliance on EDR or compliance-only programs. It recommends shifting to Zero Trust, SASE, continuous monitoring and active security awareness to close visibility gaps and reduce risk.

🔒 Enterprises face expanding, complex attack surfaces driven by IoT growth, API ecosystems, remote work, shadow IT and multi-cloud sprawl. The author predicts 2026 will bring centralized cloud control—led by SASE—a shift to proactive, continuous ASM, stricter zero trust enforcement and widespread deployment of intelligent, agentic AI for autonomous detection and remediation. The analysis also emphasizes greater attention to third‑party and supply-chain risk.

🔒 Fortinet has been named the inaugural Google Unified Security Recommended partner for network protection, recognizing FortiSASE and FortiGate NGFW running natively on Google Cloud. The collaboration delivers a cloud-native SASE that unifies networking and security with global PoPs on Google’s private backbone, centralized policy and telemetry via FortiManager, and AI-enhanced threat protection from FortiGuard Labs. Customers can deploy through Google Cloud Marketplace and expect lower TCO through a consolidated architecture and simplified operations.