Get Permission From left: Siddharth Deshpande, director of security strategy for APJ, Akamai Technologies; Rajpreet Kaur, senior principal analyst, Gartner; and Vishal Salvi, global CISO and head of cybersecurity, Infosys Ltd. The adoption of the Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE model is being driven by numerous factors, including the need for enhanced business agility and network transformation, according to a panel of experts. SASE helps organizations to identify the right use cases when securing user access, says Rajpreet Kaur, senior principal analyst at Gartner. With the move to the cloud, security practitioners need to deploy controls closer to users, and SASE plays a key role, says Siddharth Deshpande, director of security strategy for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Akamai Technologies, in a video panel discussion with Information Security Media Group.