Enterprises are reviewing their network and security infrastructure now more than ever, Netskope's Gerry Plaza said.

Manta CEO Tomas Kratky said most organizations "don't set expectations well, and then they let [chief data officers] fail.”

Building hardware-centric network infrastructure is “mundane, costly, and high maintenance,” Netksope's Gerry Plaza said.

Legacy equipment is being replaced with SD-WAN appliances and “causing a relook at the WAN overall,” Gartner's Danielle Young said.

Senior IT Product Manager Michael Wokusch said the Formula E team's network has gotten complicated as it's been moved “more and more into the cloud.”

Gartner's Andrew Lerner compared the relationship between 5G and secure access service edge to a new car on a new road.

Since exiting stealth the startup has gained traction with "technology partners that [it] thought might be competitors,” VP Matt Krieg said.

Analyst John Tolbert predicts a “bigger emphasis on data protection, especially at the endpoint, and then just broader endpoint security integration.”

Remediation is the “toughest nut to crack” when it comes to implementing network automation, CTO Frank Kelly told SDxCentral.

VRdirect Founder Rolf Illenberger called telcos "necessary gatekeepers" in helping the metaverse vision become a reality.

"Zero trust has gone from an academic theory, to a best practice, to simply how modern security is done,” Forcepoint VP Jim Fulton told SDxCentral.

"Everyone thinks [secure access service edge] is only for remote workers, and that’s not right,” CEO Kelly Ahuja said.

“[Enterprises] see this massive financial risk attached to network-as-a-service," analyst Reece Hayden said.

Analyst Christopher Gilchrist said this year should be seen as “a time to double down on strengthening the durability of your core business."

CEO Ramesh Prabagaran said every single enterprise "has run into a problem with respect to posture and performance.”

Enabling multi-vendor secure access service edge will "make it easier for Netskope to meet customers where they are," VP Naveen Palavalli said.

Enterprises are “chasing to ensure that they've got the best position for the security implications of hybrid work,” the firm's Mauricio Sanchez said.

“Anything that doesn't have data security technologies at its core misses the whole point,” Forcepoint VP Jim Fulton said.

SVP Kumar Ramachandran said the vendor will release new capabilities in 2023 that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance IT in “exciting new ways."

Open architecture allows enterprises to deploy the capabilities they need "without being limited to what a single vendor can provide,” VMware's Karl Brown said.

"A key pillar of what's going to define success in [security service edge] is public and local edge," Axis VP Chris Hines said.

Despite growing enterprise investment in Wi-Fi 6E infrastructure, most end-user devices cannot use the 6 GHz spectrum quite yet.

Executives from vendors that Gartner says offer complete secure access service edge solutions give their 2023 predictions for the evolving market.

Enterprises are starting to have a better idea of "what our workforce looks like today and will look like into the future,” IDC's Brandon Butler said.