Organizations need to protect remote workers, as employees are accessing data and applications through hybrid environments. You can do this by using a service edge. SSE provides security and network services in a single cloud-native platform. This allows security to be covered across SaaS cloud applications, private applications and cloud services from a single policy. Access Control Secure Service Edge (SSE) solutions are essential as more employees, partners, and customers access content, data and applications via the internet and mobile devices. SSE provides protection against malicious or unauthorized access. SSE also allows secure access to cloud, web and private applications. SSE is a cloud-based platform that integrates networking and security functions, such as software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), firewall as a service, secure web gateways (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), and zero trust network access (ZTNA). It provides consistent application and security enforcement for users and locations while providing centralized visibility of 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). 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 threat protection for internet sessions, ensuring that users connect securely to critical business applications no matter where they are located. This enables hybrid-work for employees, secures data and cloud connectivity, accelerates migrations to the cloud, and simplifies M&A integration. The cloud platform can deliver security services to users regardless of their 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: SSE Systems should provide least-privileged access in accordance with a zero-trust policy. This includes user role and behavior as well as device, application, or content. 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 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 Protecting information is essential for organizations that allow remote and mobile workers to access data and applications via the internet. Secure service-edge delivers security using web gateway (SWG), zero-trust network (ZTNA), and cloud access security broker technologies. SSE provides centralized cloud data protection (DLP), allowing sensitive data be quickly found, classified, then secured in an unified manner. This can assist in supporting compliance policies such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or GDPR. SSE solutions must also have advanced threat prevention capabilities, such as cloud firewall as a service (FWaaS), CASB inspection of data in SaaS apps, and adaptive access control. SSE's adaptive access control identifies the device posture, and adapts access to it as needed. Monitoring Monitor internet sessions if you're working with secure service edges. This lets you see how your network works and what applications are being utilized. Monitors can alert you to potential problems, allowing you to prevent them before they even occur. This can help improve your user's experience and reduce cost. SSE platforms capable of inspecting web and data trafic on a large scale are critical. Be sure that the vendor has a strong service level agreement (SLA) and an extensive track record in evaluating traffic for large multinational companies. One of the most common uses for a Security Service Edge is to enforce control policies on mobile, cloud and internet access. This could include enforcing access and internet control policies within the company to ensure compliance or reducing risk via content blocking and malware isolate.