Secure Service Edge for Hybrid Work Environments

In order to protect their remote workers who access applications and data via hybrid work environments, companies need a solution. You can do this by using a service edge.

SSE is a cloud-native architecture that delivers security and networking services together in a single platform. This allows continuous security coverage for cloud, SaaS or private applications through a single policy framework.

Access Control

It is important to have an SSE solution that covers all aspects of secure service edge. As employees and trusted partners increasingly access content, apps, data, and other resources via mobile or internet devices, a SSE solution will become more and more essential. SSE protects users from malicious and unauthorized access. It also enables secure access for web, cloud and private applications and monitors the digital experience.

SSE (Cloud Security Engine) is a cloud-based solution that integrates networking, security and other functions. These include SD-WAN software, firewall as a Service, Secure Web Gateways, Cloud Access Security Brokers and Zero Trust network access. It offers consistent application and security enforcement across locations and users while delivering centralized visibility into traffic.

SSE has a zero-trust approach to access control, which is based on user identity. Users are never placed on the corporate networks. This allows for fast and reliable WAN connectivity without the need of a virtual private network (VPN). SSE includes a strong defense-in-depth approach for detecting malware and other threats.

Threat Protection

SSE offers threat protection for internet sessions, ensuring that users connect securely to critical business applications no matter where they are located. This allows hybrid working for employees. It secures cloud connectivity and private data, speeds up cloud migrations, and simplifies integration in M&As.

Security services are delivered from a single cloud platform that can follow user-to-app connections regardless of location or device. It reduces risk because it eliminates gaps in point products, and also removes the need to update legacy appliances manually.

Zero trust access: SSE should only allow access to the least privileged users based on zero trust policies, which include user roles and behaviors, devices, applications and content. This reduces the attack surface by preventing lateral movement, protecting applications from discovery and preventing lateral movements.

SSE combines unified Threat Prevention capabilities with CASB & ZTNA Technologies to enforce policies on end users no matter what device or location they may be in. This helps reduce the risk that insiders, ransomwares and other types of threats can be posed by employees who connect to sensitive information or use cloud-based applications that aren't compliant with corporate security policies.

Data Security

The information of remote and portable users is important to organizations. Secure service edges delivers security through the unification of web gateways (SWG), cloud-access security brokers (CASB), as well as zero-trust network access (ZTNA).

SSE also offers centralized cloud data loss protection (DLP) capabilities, enabling sensitive data to be easily found, classified, and secured in a unified way. This can help to support compliance policy, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS and GDPR.

SSE solutions also need to have advanced threat-prevention capabilities. These include cloud firewall as a Service (FWaaS), CASB data inspection in SaaS applications, and adaptive control access. SSE's adaptive access control identifies the device posture, and adapts access to it as needed.

Watching

Monitor internet sessions if you're working with secure service edges. You can see how well your network performs and which apps are being used.

Monitoring helps you to identify potential problems and protect your business from threats. This will also allow you to improve your customer experience and cut costs.

SSE platform that can inspect web- and data-traffic on a globally scale is crucial. Vendors should have strong service-level agreement (SLAs), and experience evaluating inline traffic at major multinationals.

A security service edge can be used to enforce policy control on internet, cloud and mobile access. This can include enforcing corporate internet and access control policies for compliance or mitigating risk through content blocking and malware isolation.