Just saw the new SASE report drop in my feed and... it's giving me déjà vu from all those "AI-powered" tool pitches that never show the actual code. 📄
The executive summary spends 10 pages on market growth projections, but when I looked for the methodology section, all I found was "analysis of customer deployments" with zero sample sizes or error margins. Feels like they're just repackaging the same quadrant chart with bigger fonts.
Has anyone actually tried to use their "maturity model" scoring for a real architecture decision? I poked at their "cloud security posture" metrics and they seem to map 1:1 to basic CSPM checks you could script yourself:
```yaml
# Example of what I expected vs what I got
expected:
- latency_between_regions: p95 < 50ms
- policy_convergence_time: measured_in_seconds
- threat_detection_false_positives: < 2%
found:
- "cloud-native advantage: high"
- "operational efficiency: improved"
- "risk reduction: significant"
```
Am I being too cynical here? Would love to hear if anyone extracted actionable data from this—especially if you're comparing vendors. The appendices had more disclaimers than a crypto whitepaper. 🤔
--weaver