Security Service Edge

Security Service Edge

What is it?

Security Service Edge (SSE), also known as Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), is a unified cloud security solution. SSE leverages the cloud’s scalability and proximity to users and data to provide robust security measures such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), malware defence, and DLP. This architecture replaces the capabilities of VPN, Proxy appliances, and VDI, and instead delivers security and network services directly from the cloud, offering organisations a more agile and cost-effective way to protect their digital assets in our increasingly decentralised and remote work-orientated world.

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Why now?

  • Evolving work environments: with the rise of remote work and distributed teams, it is crucial for organisations to secure data and applications accessed from various locations, ensuring robust protection beyond the traditional office perimeter.
  • Cloud Migration: As businesses continue to migrate their operations and data to the cloud, SSE provides a streamlined approach to securing cloud-based resources, reducing complexity, and enhancing visibility and control.
  • Enhanced Scalability: SSE’s cloud-native architecture enables businesses to easily scale security services up or down based on their needs, accommodating growth and changes in demand without major infrastructure overhauls.
  • Threat Landscape Complexity: The modern threat landscape is increasingly sophisticated, making SSE essential for integrating advanced threat detection and prevention capabilities across all network access points, including remote and branch offices.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Many industries face stringent data protection regulations. SSE helps organizations meet compliance requirements by offering centralised security policies and monitoring, ensuring data privacy and integrity.
  • Cost Efficiency: SSE can lead to cost savings by reducing the need for on-premises hardware and streamlining security management, making it a financially viable option for organisations seeking effective, adaptable security solutions.

Our four to six week Proof of Value exercise aligned to predefined success criteria provides you with the opportunity to seamlessly deploy the solution within your environment. This tailored approach enables a comprehensive understanding of how the Solution operates within your environment and evidence the outcomes of the success criteria.

Real World Scenarios

Remote Workforce Security

All remote connections are consistently protected with robust security policies, regardless of employees’ location.

Branch Office Connectivity

Optimise network connectivity and security, enabling seamless access to centralised applications and data while ensuring consistent security measures across all branches.

Cloud Application Adoption

A unified security approach that safeguards data and user access to cloud resources, maintaining security even as the IT landscape evolves.

Mobile Workforce

Enforce security policies on all employees’ devices, securing corporate data and applications while maintaining flexibility and productivity.

Global Expansion

Simplified network and security management by offering a centralised platform to protect data and applications across international locations, ensuring a consistent security posture no matter where operations expand.

C-STEM’s SMART Solution

The C-STEM Crowd SMART Solution combines a C-STEM SMART System with a C-STEM SMART As a Service to provide organisations with the capability to overcome cloud security challenges more efficiently, allowing the delivering and maintenance of a secure and controlled user experience in real time.

The SSE solution has numerous advantages. overcoming a variety of organisational problems including:

  • Securing Remote Users without the need for VPN, varying multiple endpoint types.
  • Cloud native Secure web gateway, with real time reporting and granular control.
  • Protective DNS (“PDNS”) access is available – each customer is provided with a set of unique IP addresses, which can be submitted to NCSC to grant access to PDNS.
  • Greater transparency and control over public cloud apps like YouTube, Google assets, Social media, and other related search engines. Legacy filtering solutions are often restricted in what they can do.
  • Reduce reliance on HW and consolidate DC space. Some local GOV entities looking to consolidate and share DC space to reduce cost
  • Includes ZTNA .
  • Scales horizontally to support any traffic volume.
  • Transfer traditional VPN, proxy equipment, and VDI from self-hosted within the data centre to a cloud-delivered service with the same capabilities at scale, to significantly reduce costs and achieve cloud transformation.
  • Seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Azure, AD, Defender for Cloud Apps, Sentinel, and Microsoft 365.

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