MEF State of the Industry Report: SASE
The risk of major cyberattacks has never been greater. Organizations are responding by making cybersecurity a top priority for digital technology investment. Find out how…
Increased use of cloud services, the rise of remote and hybrid work, and the pressing need to apply Zero Trust (ZT) principles are fueling explosive demand for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technologies and services, which solve the problem of protecting users, devices, and applications at scale regardless of their location (public cloud, private cloud, on-premises, Internet, etc.).
Zero Trust is a security framework that assumes no implicit trust for users, devices, or applications. It consists of subject and target actors, identity management (IdM), access control, policy management, policy end points, and continuous monitoring which is crucial to defend against the ever increasing cyber threats.
MEF Zero Trust Certification is part of the new MEF SASE Certification program.
MEF’s Zero Trust certification is based on testing a multi-node simulated enterprise network with each node having specific traffic and performance characteristics, e.g., data center, cloud, corporate office, regional office, remote office, retail outlet, etc.
The certification steps through various use cases, including:
MEF SASE Certification Specifications for Technology Providers — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: SASE, SD-WAN Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification
MEF SASE Certification Specifications for Service Providers — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: SASE, SD-WAN Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification
MEF Certified SASE RFI Template for Enterprises — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: 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 163 Draft Release 3 Zero Trust Certification Test Cases and Requirements — 2024 May
Product Portfolio: Zero Trust, Zero Trust Certification
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.
MEF 118 Zero Trust Framework for MEF Services — 2022 Oct
Product Portfolio: SASE, Zero Trust, Zero Trust Certification
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 Zero Trust certifications for technologies enables technology suppliers to establish a standards-compliant presence within a federation of automated networks.
MEF Zero Trust Certification is part of the new MEF SASE Certification program.
MEF SASE Certification establishes a trusted benchmark for high-performance SASE solutions in a rapidly evolving market, empowering organizations of all sizes to confidently select SASE technologies or SASE managed services.
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