Cloudflare recognized as a Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms
7/15/2025 · Abe Carryl, Corey Mahan
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This post announces Cloudflare's recognition as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms. It highlights Cloudflare One as their SASE platform, detailing its evolution with features like lightweight branch connectors, native DLP, and secure infrastructure access tools. The post emphasizes Cloudflare's unique connectivity cloud approach, built on a global network, unified control plane, and composable data plane, differentiating it from other SASE vendors by building the platform first and layering services upon it. It details how customers benefit from this design through reduced last-mile latency, efficient processing latency, and optimized inter-data center connectivity. Use cases for network and security modernization are also discussed, including Cloudflare Access, Magic WAN, and Cloudflare Gateway.