This panel delves into the transformative potential of AI-powered Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) frameworks, examining how AI integration is redefining security paradigms for the cloud-based, multi-device enterprise of 2025. Moderated by an expert in AI and network security, this discussion will bring together industry leaders and practitioners to explore the evolution of SASE/SSE powered by AI, covering real-world deployments, success stories, and hurdles. Key topics include automated threat detection, adaptive policy frameworks, and AI-driven insights for robust, scalable cybersecurity. Attendees will gain practical insights into implementing and scaling AI-enhanced SASE/SSE, overcoming integration challenges, and realizing the true potential of AI in cybersecurity.
Joe Skorupa is a former Gartner Research VP/Distinguished Analyst. He continues to advise senior leaders at technology and service providers on strategic matters such as product plans, go-to-market/positioning, partnerships and M&A. His area of focus is disruptive market forces, whether technology, business model or broader geopolitical, economic or social factors.
Joe, along with Neil MacDonald, lead Gartner’s research on the transformation of the Network Security and SD-WAN markets into a new, combined $28B market – the Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE.
Joe has more than 40 years of experience in enterprise, service provider and storage networking. He has experience working in global enterprises and in early-stage startups, holding a variety of engineering, marketing and analyst roles at companies such as FORE Systems, Motorola, Indiana University, RHK and Gartner.
He is a Life Member of IEEE Member and was a member of 802.3 Ethernet committee for more than eight years and chaired the 802.3 Network Management Task Force for four years.
Joe DePalo leads the platform engineering organization at Netskope and is responsible for the design, build, and operations of the current and future generations of the Netskope infrastructure and platform. Prior to joining Netskope, Joe was the global head of internet services for Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was responsible for the AWS Global Network and the Amazon carrier strategy. Prior to AWS, he was SVP of operations and engineering at Limelight Networks. There, he and his team built the second-largest content delivery network in the world.