Mplify, the global alliance advancing Network as a Service for AI and AI-ready digital infrastructure, today announced SecureIQLab Inc. as its sole Accredited Test and Certification Partner for the Mplify Secure Access Service Edge Certification program. SecureIQLab will conduct independent testing and collaborate with Mplify to advance testing methodology used to evaluate Software-Defined Wide Area Network, Security Service Edge, Zero Trust, and full SASE technologies.
Mplify SASE Certification addresses core technology components of a SASE offering: SD-WAN, SSE, and Zero Trust. Technology providers can certify individual components or achieve full Mplify SASE Certification across all three. Service providers can inherit applicable certifications when their services use eligible certified technologies. Mplify validates eligibility, with no additional service-provider or live-network testing required. Service providers may inherit certifications from one or more technology providers, supporting multi-vendor SASE services.
Certification provides independent validation that eligible technologies meet open, industry-defined requirements for security, service functionality, and performance. As Mplify's ATCP, SecureIQLab will work with Mplify to advance testing methodology and test eligible solutions against certification requirements.
As enterprise applications, data, and AI workloads become more distributed, organizations depend on secure connectivity across clouds, data centers, edge environments, and business locations. Mplify SASE Certification gives enterprises and service providers a consistent basis for evaluating security technologies supporting those connections.
These developments respond to growing enterprise demand for greater transparency and independently validated security. The Mplify Enterprise Leadership Council's Manifesto for Advancing Trust, Assurance, and Resilience through SASE Certification called for certification to become baseline across technology products, solutions, and services.
For technology providers, certification offers independent validation and recognized way to demonstrate conformance. For service providers, inheritance model provides streamlined path to certify services built with independently tested technologies. Enterprises gain greater visibility into technologies underlying services they evaluate and procure. Certified technologies receive Mplify certification marks and listing in public registry.
About SecureIQLab
SecureIQLab Inc. is an independent cloud security validation laboratory based in Austin, Texas. SecureIQLab evaluates security effectiveness, performance, and resilience through empirical testing based on transparent methodologies and real-world enterprise use cases. SecureIQLab also developed SOCX, its AI-Driven Cloud Security Validation Platform.
About Mplify
Mplify is the global alliance advancing NaaS for AI and AI-ready digital infrastructure. It helps members compete beyond limits of their own networks by expanding reach, combining services with ecosystem partners, and enabling trusted, standards-based automation. Its community spans service and cloud providers, data center operators, internet exchanges, cybersecurity and technology companies, and enterprises.
