Secure Service Edge Hybrid Work Environments
To secure remote employees, organizations have to find a way of securing hybrid environments where employees can access data and applications. It can be achieved by using a secure edge service.
SSE is a cloud-native architecture that delivers security and networking services together in a single platform. It provides continuous security across SaaS, cloud and private applications using a unified policy framework.
Access Control As more employees and trusted partners access content, data, applications, and other resources through the internet or mobile devices, it is essential to have a comprehensive secure service edge (SSE) solution. SSE protects end users from unauthorized and malicious access, enables secure access to web, cloud, and private applications, and provides digital experience monitoring.
SSE is a platform that integrates network and security functions. It includes SD-WAN, firewalls as a service (FaaS), secure web gateways, cloud access security brokers (CASB), zero trust network accesses (ZTNA), etc. It allows for consistent application and network security across users and locations, while also providing central visibility.
SSE includes an identity-based zero trust access control system that never puts users on the corporate network. It ensures reliable and fast WAN connections, without the use of a VPN. In addition, a robust defense-in-depth strategy for detecting and preventing malware and other threats is an important part of SSE.
Threat Protection SSE offers protection against threats for internet sessions. It ensures users securely connect to critical applications regardless of where they are. It enables hybrid work by employees, secures the cloud and private data connection, accelerates cloud-migrations, as well as simplifies the integration of M&As.
Security services are delivered from a single cloud platform that can follow user-to-app connections regardless of location or device. This eliminates gaps between point-products and the need to manually update traditional legacy appliances.
Zero-trust access: SSE systems must allow the least privilege access, based upon a policy of zero trust, encompassing user role, behavior, device, content, and application. This prevents lateral movement and protects applications from being discovered, reducing the attack surface.
SSE enforces policies: SSE combines unified threats prevention capabilities with CASB/ZTNA technologies in order to enforce corporate policy on all end-users, no matter where they are located within the network or which devices they use. This can help mitigate the risks of insider attacks, ransomware or other threats that may occur when employees use cloud applications not in compliance with corporate policy.
Data Security Organisations must protect information when remote users and mobile devices connect to data and applications over the Internet. Secure service-edge delivers security using web gateway (SWG), zero-trust network (ZTNA), and cloud access security broker technologies.
SSE offers cloud-based data loss protection capabilities that allow sensitive data to easily be found, classified and secured. This can help support compliance policies, 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.
Monitoring It's crucial to monitor internet sessions when working with a service edge. This will allow you to monitor how your network is working and which applications are being used.
Monitors can alert you to potential problems, allowing you to prevent them before they even occur. This can also help you improve your user experience and reduce costs.
SSE platforms that can inspect web and data traffic at a global scale are crucial. Choose a vendor with strong service agreements (SLAs) that has evaluated inline traffic on behalf of large multinationals.
A security service edge can be used to enforce policy control on internet, cloud and mobile access. This includes enforcing internet and access control policy for corporate compliance or mitigating risks through content blocking and malicious isolation.