Which solution was designed to help organizations embrace cloud and mobility by providing network and network security services from a common cloud-delivered architecture?

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is specifically designed to address the challenges of cloud adoption and mobile workforces by integrating network services (like SD-WAN) with security services (like SWG, CASB, ZTNA, Firewall-as-a-Service) into a single, cloud-native platform, providing consistent policy enforcement closer to the user.

A Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) is a powerful security device, but it is typically deployed at the network perimeter (physical or virtual) and doesn't inherently offer a unified, cloud-delivered architecture for distributed networking and security like SASE.

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software delivery model, not a solution that provides converged network and network security services from a common cloud-delivered architecture. SASE *secures* SaaS applications, but it is not SaaS itself in this context.

Security orchestration automation and response (SOAR) platforms automate security operations and incident response, but they do not provide the foundational networking and security infrastructure services from a cloud-delivered edge.