For IT leaders that only require a subset of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) capabilities, preferring to focus mainly on the security aspects and leaving out the networking components, Security Service Edge (SSE), an emerging new cloud-native security framework, is potentially a better fit.
Security Service Edge (SSE) converges multiple cybersecurity capabilities within a single, cloud-native software stack, and is designed to protect all enterprise edges – sites, users and applications, including the IoT-connected points — even as the contours of those edges shift.