WEDNESDAY, 22ND April 2026
The Evolution of SASE: Customer Journey to Secure Access
5:30 - 8:00PM ET | GREENVILLE, SC
Event Overview
How far have we come since 2020 in securing user access?
Organizations had begun implementing digitalization and cloud migration long before the pandemic. Hybrid work is now the rule – not the exception. Cloud adoption has accelerated and data flows far beyond traditional network boundaries. The result? A much wider attack surface. The question is no longer whether to modernize security architecture – it’s how to do so in a way that reduces risk, controls cost and enables business agility. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged as a strategic framework to address this new reality.
Where is your enterprise in its journey to secure access in today’s connected world? Are you achieving measurable outcomes – reduced risk exposure, improved operational efficiency, and stronger resilience against the ever-expanding threat landscape? When leveraging a SASE framework, it becomes a foundation for secure growth, digital transformation and workforce flexibility.
Register now for this exclusive session, where you will join industry leaders and peers in a pragmatic discussion around the journey towards secure access – not just deploying another security stack. Among the discussion points:
- Operational Reality – What’s working, what’s breaking and what still needs to work?
- Measurable Risk Reduction – Aligning SASE investments to business metrics and cyber resilience goals.
- Strategic Positioning – Demonstrating ROI, reducing complexity and enabling secure digital acceleration.
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Moderator
James Deluccia
Consulting Editor
ISMG
Joseph Iacovelli
Cybersecurity Strategist
Fortinet
Speakers
Joseph Iacovelli of event sponsor Fortinet will share new insights into the evolution of SASE.
This 2-hour dinner roundtable discussion will be:
- Chatham house rule
- Peer driven
- Pitch free
Subject matter expert
Ant Ducker
Global Security Technologist
Cisco
With over 20 years of hands-on experience in network security engineering and implementation And has developed network security platforms for some of the biggest names from the service provider, finance, advertising, government, and education verticals. In addition to network security engineering, Ant spends a great deal of time thinking about proactive and reactive cyber defence, leveraging both manual, automated and AI Augmented threat hunting workflows to enhance security posture, and how to manage hyper distributed environments with an integrated security platform.
Subject matter expert
Dennen Monks
Field Tech Strategist
CrowdStrike
Monks has 20 years of cybersecurity experience across network, data, cloud and applications. He helps
companies achieve streamlined operational states across people, process and technology. Monks
previously spent 10 years in professional services, five years at Skyhigh Networks in sales engineering,
and served as lead solution architect at Bionic.
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Venue
Greenville, SC
Venue to be announced
Underwritten by
Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey.
Rules of Engagement
By taking part in this discussion you agree that:
- These events follow Chatham House Rule. Nothing shared will be recorded or distributed anywhere online.
- If for any reason you need to cancel your reservation, we ask you to let us know 48 hours prior to the event commencing so we can open your seat up to someone else.
- These are interactive discussions, so we ask that all attendees participate in the discussion. If this is a virtual event, we ask all attendees to join via video.