Security Service Edge for Government and Higher Education

The shift to a remote-heavy workforce has resulted in a dispersion of enterprise data and an increased attack surface for government organizations and higher education institutions. This shift has created security gaps that traditional security strategies and solutions just can’t fill.

To address these gaps, government and academic institutions are moving towards Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), an architecture that combines several different security and networking elements for enhanced security in enterprises where cloud access and applications are now ubiquitous.

Security Service Edge (SSE), an important concept for understanding the journey to a SASE architecture, represents the evolving security stack needed to successfully achieve a SASE convergence, including technology capabilities such as cloud access security broker (CASB), cloud-native Next-Gen Secure Web Gateway (NG SWG), Firewall-as-a-Service, and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that are core requirements for that stack.