ZTNA is more secure than VPNs<\/a>, which give remote users the same level of access to your network as if they were logging in from the main office. ZTNA prevents remote users from seeing or interacting with any network or cloud resources they haven\u2019t specifically requested access to. This decreases your attack surface if a malicious actor uses a compromised account to access your infrastructure remotely.<\/p>\nSASE network security combines SD-WAN, CASB, SWG, FWaaS, and ZTNA into a single technology stack that optimizes WAN traffic and delivers robust security functionality.
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What\u2019s the difference between SASE and SSE?<\/h2>\n
Another popular cloud-based security acronym you may have come across is SSE, or Security Service Edge. SASE and SSE are similar in more than just their names \u2013 in fact, SSE is technically a component of SASE. SSE is the security portion of the SASE stack, containing the services listed above such as FWaaS and ZTNA. However, SSE does not include SD-WAN technology, which provides the \u201caccess\u201d portion of Secure Access Service Edge.
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SSE = Security Service Edge
\n<\/b>SASE = Secure Access Service Edge = SSE + SD-WAN<\/b><\/p>\n
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Choosing between SASE and SSE<\/h3>\n
There are situations in which you may not need the SD-WAN access portion of SASE, in which case an SSE solution would be the most economical choice for network security. SSE is primarily aimed at providing secure connectivity for end users who are working remotely. SASE covers that use case as well, but it also provides security for branch offices and other remote locations with dedicated network hardware.<\/p>\n
For example, during the remote work surge at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies adopted SSE to allow their employees to work remotely. IT teams (or even the end-users themselves) simply installed a client on their laptop or phone, which connected them to the cloud-based SSE stack where security could be enforced. As people return to offices and branches, these companies may opt to install SD-WAN devices in these established remote locations, adding access to the SSE equation and resulting in SASE.
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Who provides SASE and SSE?<\/h2>\n
Since SASE is just SSE with SD-WAN, that means all SASE vendors are also SSE vendors. The differentiator is that SSE-only vendors don\u2019t have the hardware required to send traffic from remote sites to their cloud-based SSE service. They must rely on third-party SD-WAN on-ramps to SSE, such as ZPE Systems Nodegrid. SASE vendors offer hardware as a key component of their solution but may also have a Switzerland strategy (vendor-neutral) to allow the use of third-party SD-WAN. As an example, here are the top 5 vendors in no particular order:
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