Security Service Edge (SSE) is a relatively new category. Depending on how you look at it, it’s either a consolidation of three existing security categories — Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA), and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) — or, it’s a deconstruction of SASE that separates security capabilities from network plumbing.
Either way, SSE is not just an arbitrary addition to the security industry’s alphabet soup: it’s a highly relevant evolution of enterprise security that recognizes what organizations need to protect their distributed users, applications, and workloads against today’s ever-evolving threats.
