SASE transformed enterprise security by converging networking and security into a cloud-delivered architecture, replacing legacy VPNs with identity-aware Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and enabling secure access from anywhere. It fundamentally changed how users connect to applications.

But today's enterprise has evolved.

Modern organizations are powered by far more than human users. Medical devices, IoT, operational technology, AI, applications, APIs, and cloud workloads now represent the majority of connected identities across the enterprise. Most of these identities never traverse traditional SASE architectures, yet they communicate continuously across wired, wireless, campus, branch, cloud, and edge environments.

This creates the next architectural challenge.

SASE solved secure access. Universal Zero Trust solves secure connectivity everywhere.

In this session, we'll explore why the next evolution of Zero Trust must extend beyond users to encompass every identity and every connection. Learn how Universal Zero Trust transforms the wired and wireless network into an identity-aware enforcement fabric, enabling continuous verification, dynamic segmentation, and policy-based communication across users, devices, medical IoT, applications, workloads, and AI.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evolving beyond user-centric Zero Trust toward a universal, identity-driven architecture that secures every connection—regardless of where it originates, where it terminates, or who (or what) is communicating.