We lightly touch upon the drivers for tighter enterprise security and then dive into what SSE is, comparing its architecture and migration path to SASE to a 360-degree SSE approach which offers complete visibility, optimization and control with a seamless path to SASE convergence.

How Security Service Edge (SSE) fits into SASE’s Security Pillars

Key Topics:

• The Need for Holistic Security
• SSE vs. 360-degree SSE: What is the Architecture Difference?
• Security Collaboration
• SSE or 360-degree SSE: Choose Your Defense Carefully
• 360-degree SSE: Seamless Path to Single-vendor SASE
• Summary

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The Need For Holistic Security

Legacy security architectures presupposed security as local and siloed with appliances everywhere. Unfortunately, these architectures produced protection, performance, and visibility gaps, so the overall security requirements for enterprises have proven this model insufficient.

This outdated approach influenced the need for security simplification and assumes enterprises replace these architectures with a strategy that will:

• Simplify security management
• Minimize security blind spots
• Inspect traffic flows in all directions
• Deliver Zero Trust access everywhere
• Give visibility and control into all traffic

SSE vs. 360-degree SSE: What is The Architecture Difference?

Security Service Edge (SSE) is new category introduced by Gartner, two years after SASE, and represents an essential step toward simplifying complex security architectures by consolidating them into cloud-delivered services. This allows enterprises to quickly adapt to new business and technical challenges like cloud migration, the growing hybrid workforce, etc.

The figure below represents the basic SSE architecture and its protection scheme:

Basic SSE Architecture and its protection scheme