AI BriefingCloudflare Named Sole 'Visionary' in 2026 SASE and SSE Reports
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Cloudflare was named the sole Visionary in the 2026 SASE and SSE reports.
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Cloudflare announced that it was named the sole 'Visionary' in both the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms and the Security Service Edge (SSE) reports.
The SASE and SSE markets are evolving due to remote work, return-to-office trends, the proliferation of AI agents, post-quantum threats, and the rise of shadow apps. Cloudflare stated that the fragmented, M&A-driven structure of incumbent vendors struggles to meet modern enterprises' security and connectivity needs, and presented Cloudflare One as an agile SASE platform built on a single global network.
Cloudflare highlighted the following key differentiators of its platform:
- AI Agent Governance: Controls the proliferation of MCP servers and manages AI agents and users together.
- AI Cost Control: Integrates SASE with AI Gateway to limit AI inference costs by user, team, and application.
- Post-Quantum Security: Applies post-quantum cryptography across both on-ramp and off-ramp to counter 'harvest now, decrypt later' threats.
Cloudflare explained that this evaluation reflects its architectural choices and customer trust.
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