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The Next Wave of SASE: Unified Solutions
Security Service Edge (SSE): What Happened to the "A" in SASE?
The Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Puzzle Piece in SASE
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) & Security Service Edge (SSE) Briefing
SSE and SASE Market Scan Workshop
The evolution of SASE and SSE: From connectivity and security toward a cloud-delivered security solution
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) revolutionized cybersecurity by merging network and security services into a single cloud-native solution. It provides seamless, secure access for users anywhere, crucial in today's remote work era. By integrating WAN capabilities with robust security measures, SASE ensures consistent protection across all endpoints, simplifying management and reducing costs.
However, as organizations adopted SASE, it became evident that some needed a more focused approach to cloud-delivered security without the networking component. This led to the evolution of security service edge (SSE).
SSE encompasses the security aspects of SASE, including secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), firewall as a service (FWaaS) and zero trust network access (ZTNA), but without the SD-WAN component. This allows organizations to adopt a more modular approach, prioritizing security capabilities while gradually integrating networking features as needed. In essence, SSE can be considered a subset of SASE, providing a stepping stone for organizations to transition to a fully integrated SASE architecture.
What is cloud-delivered security (SSE)?
SSE brings all the separate security services necessary for SASE — applications, products and services, often from different vendors — into a unified, integrated format that provides greater efficiency and reduces complexity and cost. SSE represents deeply integrated security capabilities that are aware of each other, work together and are sourced from a single vendor. SSE is considered an "as-a-service" consumption model, giving organizations flexibility.
To establish an effective reference solution, it's crucial to first identify and prioritize key customer market trends that the solution will address, either upon initial release or through planned updates. Market trends below have evolved from network-based SASE Business use cases to be more security-focused.
Understanding business drivers for security service edge (SSE)
Here's how SSE can integrate into an overall IT strategy:
Cloud security
Ensuring the security of multi-cloud environments.
Agility and scalability
Allowing the business to introduce secure connectivity at a global scale with agility.
Risk management
Implementing least privilege access to applications and data.
IOT/OT security
Ensuring devices have secure access to both sanctioned and unsanctioned applications, as well as workloads moving to the public cloud.
Data protection
Discovering data-in-motion and data-at-rest threats and preventing the loss of sensitive information.
Consolidation
Reducing operational overhead by managing and streamlining toolsets.
Visibility and user experience
Enhancing visibility by integrating security products, minimizing management and logging dashboards, and improving user experience insights.
Compliance
Meeting federal agency requirements, geolocation mandates, and regulations such as PCI, GDPR, or HIPPA.
Secure connectivity
Ensuring connectivity for business-to-business, acquisitions, mergers or divestitures, and WAN optimization.
Accelerate your SASE and SSE journey
From learning the basics, to gaining hands-on experience with different solutions to discovering the right path for your organization, accelerate your journey to SASE.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
SSE and SASE Market Scan Workshop
Zero Trust Network Access Briefing
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) & Security Service Edge (SSE) Briefing
What about SSE?
Adopting a full SASE architecture isn't the right path for every organization. Instead, use Security Service Edge (SSE) to incrementally move toward a unified experience for network and security services. And realize tangible security benefits along the way.