Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

A system, comprising:

• a computing system, comprising:
• at least one first processor;
• and
• a first non-transitory computer readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one first processor, the first non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer software comprising a first set of instructions that, when executed by the at least one first processor, causes the computing system to:
• provide a user experience (“UX”) platform for a customer portal, the UX platform being accessible by a user via a user device over one or more first networks;
• provide, via the UX platform, one or more options to configure, via the customer portal, one or more secure access service edge (“SASE”)-based network services among a plurality of network services provided by a service provider, the one or more SASE-based network services collectively comprising a set of unified, cloud-based services that integrate software-defined wide area network (“SD-WAN”) functionalities with network service functionalities and network security functionalities;
• and
• autonomously orchestrate deployment and configuration of the one or more SASE-based network services via one or more customer premises equipment (“CPE”) that are associated with the user or to an entity with which the user is associated, over one or more second networks, based at least in part on user selection of at least one option among the one or more options to configure the one or more SASE-based network services.