u/Ana_Tangelo

 I’m helping build evaluation criteria for a SASE platform for a global environment, and I’m trying to focus less on checkbox features and more on what matters once this thing is running in anger. Of course we need the basics SD‑WAN‑style connectivity for sites, remote user access, and a solid security stack but beyond that, I’m more worried about PoP performance where our users actually are, how traffic is processed internally, how good the logs and troubleshooting tools are, and what it feels like to operate the platform during partial outages or weird routing events.

If you’re running a SASE platform across multiple regions already, which attributes turned out to be critical in real life that you maybe underweighted up front? And were there RFP items you obsessed over (minor features, edge cases) that turned out not to matter once you were in daily operations?

It's the difference between knowing your posture passed an audit six months ago and knowing it's compliant right now. Cloud environments change constantly,  a passing configuration on Monday can drift into a failing one by Wednesday.

Continuous compliance monitoring tracks posture in real time against frameworks like SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or ISO 27001, automatically collecting evidence as infrastructure changes rather than scrambling before each audit cycle. Has your team made this shift? What did it take to get auditors on board?