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Security Service Edge is the security stack of SASE (that also includes a networking stack including SD-WAN). A complete SSE stack of cloud security services allows organizations to protect their workforce from internet threats, provides secure and adaptive access to private corporate applications, and protects data across all their cloud platforms and applications.
There are 3 core services as part of the SSE stack:
SASE or Secure Access Service Edge is an architecture that allows networking and security services to be consumed using a unified control and a unified management plane. The networking and the security services delivered using this architecture focuses on delivering a better end user experience, helping improve security posture, while reducing the cost and complexity for IT teams.
SASE has two parts: Networking Services or the WAN Edge part that includes SD-WAN delivering WAN optimization, Quality of Service (QoS) and Direct Access from branch office locations to the internet.
The Security Services or the SSE part includes SWG, CASB and ZTNA delivering a unified platform for delivering consistent security policies, protecting users, data and access to applications with the same solution.
Traditionally, the security of an organization has been dealt in a very siloed fashion and using multiple vendor products that were deployed in a data center. With an acceleration to cloud, and workforce becoming hybrid, the traditional approach does not meet the requirements of modern day work style because of the following:
A complete and a unified stack of security services allows customers to:
As a cloud native service, it sits inline with applications in the cloud and does not require backhauling, delivering a real time end user experience.
A unified, cloud-delivered platform minimizes management of security policies and does not require day to day maintenance thus providing time for IT to focus on strategic initiatives as well as on their professional growth.
As all the corporate traffic goes through this single proxy solution, it helps identify Shadow IT and empower end users to use sanctioned applications securely. It also inspects all the incoming and outgoing internet traffic for stopping and internet-based threats like ransomware.
Security Service Edge or SSE is part of the SASE stack that offers security delivered as a service. These services are cloud-native, that offer unlimited scalability, high resiliency, and ease of management. As these services work as one, it protects a user’s journey all the way from its endpoint, to accessing their work in cloud and back. Below is an example of such an illustration.
As you select the right security strategy for your organization, please keep in mind the following:
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