General and Architecture question list we compiled to ask SASE vendors for Outbound Browsing functionalities Our audience welcome to use our list as a starting point in your vendor evaluation process.
Dmitry Raidman
July 11, 2020
General Questions
What's the name of the offering addressing the outbound browsing?
What's the name of the offering addressing the outbound browsing?
What part of the SASE market your product captures?
What is the maturity level of your product?
How do you license your product? (seats, devices, concurrent connections, bandwidth, BYOD)
Describe your architecture at a high level (pops, hybrid-cloud, private cloud, high availability and routing optimization)
How do you tie back to the User Identity and MFA? What is the best practice for different Job Roles?
How can you ensure you can scale for customers’ demand?
How do you make the user experience faster and better?
How do you provide unified management and dashboard?
Architecture Questions
Connectivity options from the office and their pros and cons? (including high availability and SDWAN)
How do you protect the remote users (ports and protocols, client delivery and removal mechanisms, endpoint security posture)?
Any other connectivity options that are available? (part of ISP, OEM, Plug into other solution)
How do you address the following requirement for secure browsing?
~~Enforce Acceptable use Policy- Block based on URL Categorization
~~Block bad known URLs, dynamically
~~Protect from malicious file downloads
~~Detect and block malicious content hosted within a site
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