Prioritizing SSE to Protect the Modern Digital Business
Speaker: John Grady – Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group & Doug Browne, Director for Cloud Security & SSE, APJC – Cisco Systems
Activity Details:
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- IT Live Webinar that focuses on 5 main topics surrounding cloud-centric security:
- Security challenges that are forcing business to consider new security models
- Drivers for SASE interest and the opportunities & challenges that Security Service Edge (SSE) brings
- SSE use cases in the Asia Pacific region
- Considerations for choosing vendor partners
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What I Learned:
- Security Service Edge (SSE)
- Security service edge (SSE) is a collection of integrated, cloud-based security technologies to protect your network edge. SSE combines security controls such as zero-trust network access (ZTNA), secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), and firewall as a service (FWaaS).
- Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
- The convergence of security and networking into a cloud-centric and cloud-delivered architecture solution that provides distributed enforcements for users and applications wherever they reside with centralized management.
- Drivers for Interest in SASE:
- Improves security effectiveness
- Reduces security risk to organization
- Reduces network and solution costs
- Supports remote worker environments
- Operationally efficient and agile
- Zero-Trust Approach
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- A strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by eliminating implicit trust and continuously validating every stage of a digital interaction.
- Important elements of the approach:
- Authentication, Device Choice and Validation (Compliance), Latest software usage, Controlled access (get access to what you only need within the organization)
- Customer Benefits from SSE Adoption:
- Improved user experience
- Clients transition from an on-prem infrastructure to a consolidated and efficient rule-set cloud environment
- Easier to respond to threats within the organization
- Easy and quick implementations
- Improved cloud-based management
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- How the activity relates to coursework or your career goals:
- I am very interested in roles geared towards security and IT governance.