VPNs and backhauled traffic were designed for a different era. Your people work from offices, homes, and client sites. Your applications live across data centres, public cloud, and SaaS. Edge7 Networks delivers SSE and Zero Trust access as a managed service. Cloud-delivered security, enforced consistently, wherever your users connect from.
Your users connect from home networks, hotel WiFi, client sites, and branch offices. Your applications are split across on-premises data centres, Azure, AWS, and a growing list of SaaS platforms. But many organisations are still routing that traffic back through headquarters, through a VPN concentrator, through a perimeter firewall, and then out to the internet.
The result is familiar. VPN bottlenecks that frustrate users and create capacity problems. Security policies that differ depending on where someone connects from. Cloud application traffic that takes a detour through infrastructure it does not need to touch.
The perimeter has dissolved. Security needs to follow the user, not wait for them to connect to the corporate network.
All traffic routed through HQ. Users queuing for bandwidth. Cloud applications taking the slowest possible path to reach users who are already on the internet.
Office users get full protection. Remote users get a VPN and hope. Policies differ by location. Exceptions accumulate. Gaps become attack vectors.
Every new SaaS application, every new location, every new group of remote users adds visibility gaps. Shadow IT grows because the perimeter model cannot see what is outside it.
Adding capacity means bigger hardware at HQ. Adding locations means more tunnels. The architecture was designed for 50 office users, not 500 distributed ones.
No more backhauling traffic through headquarters to reach cloud services. Cloud-delivered security inspects and protects traffic at the edge, wherever the user sits.
Performance improves because traffic takes the shortest path. Security improves because policy is applied regardless of location.
Identity, device posture, and context are verified before access is granted to specific applications. Not a VPN tunnel with blanket network access.
Access is validated continuously. Not granted once at login and left open.
Office, home, branch, mobile. The same web filtering, threat protection, DLP, and access controls follow every user.
No policy drift between locations. No exceptions that become attack vectors. No reliance on users being "on the network."
CASB gives visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS usage. You see what data is moving, where it is going, and whether it complies with your policies.
Shadow IT becomes visible. DLP extends to cloud applications that previously sat outside your security controls.
Edge7 Networks manages the SSE platform. Policy configuration, monitoring, updates, troubleshooting, and reporting are all handled.
Your IT team stays informed without adding another console to their daily routine.
SSE is the security layer of the SASE framework. It delivers Secure Web Gateway, CASB, Zero Trust Network Access, and Data Loss Prevention from the cloud. But deploying SSE properly requires more than enabling a platform. It requires understanding how traffic flows through your environment, how your users connect, and how your applications behave.
Edge7 Networks brings that understanding. We have been designing and managing enterprise networks since 2018. When we deploy SSE, the security policies are informed by how traffic actually moves through your environment. That context is what makes the difference between a platform that works on paper and one that works in practice.
Together, they form SASE. Understanding where SSE fits helps you plan the right roadmap for your environment.
Delivers SWG, CASB, ZTNA, and DLP from the cloud. Protects users and data wherever they are. No backhauling. No perimeter dependency.
Application-aware connectivity across sites. Routes traffic intelligently, optimises performance, and reduces dependence on expensive MPLS circuits.
Networking and security managed under one partner. The same team sees both layers. Decisions are made with full context. Gaps between tools close.
You do not need to deploy both layers at once. Many organisations start with SSE to address secure access and remote user protection, then add SD-WAN as part of a longer-term SASE roadmap. Edge7 Networks can design either or both.
Three things that make managed SSE from Edge7 Networks different from enabling a platform and hoping for the best.
The engineers who design your secure access architecture are the same people who support it. They learn your environment, your user base, and your risk profile. When something needs adjusting, they already understand the context. Not a rotating cast working from a ticketing system.
A misconfigured policy can lock users out of critical applications. A new threat vector can require an immediate policy update. These are not situations where you want to raise a ticket and wait. Edge7 Networks provides direct access to your assigned engineers. Response times are contractual, not aspirational.
SSE sits alongside SOC/SIEM, MDR, EDR, email security, firewall management, identity, and incident response. When you take multiple services, the same team has visibility across all of them. Threats detected at the web gateway correlate with endpoint and network activity. Fewer gaps between tools.
Edge7 Networks has been designing enterprise networks since 2018. When we deploy SSE, the policies are informed by how traffic actually moves through your environment. That context is what makes the difference between a platform that works on paper and one that works in practice.
SSE is the security layer. SD-WAN is the networking layer. Together, they form SASE. If your organisation also needs application-aware connectivity across your sites, Edge7 Networks delivers managed SD-WAN alongside SSE. One partner. Networking and security decisions made with full context.
Podcast episodes and articles on secure access, SSE adoption, and the shift from VPNs to Zero Trust.
Alex Hobson from HPE Aruba Networking on VPN replacement, SSE adoption, and what organisations are doing with Zero Trust today.
Jaye Tillson from HPE brings clarity to SASE and SSE and explains why Universal ZTNA bridges on-prem and remote access.
What SASE and SSE mean for IT teams, why VPNs are becoming obsolete, and real-world customer use cases.
The premiere episode. The Edge7 Networks team explores the shift from MPLS to SD-WAN and how SASE is transforming cloud and network security.
How Edge7 Networks expanded its security portfolio with SSE, and what it means for organisations moving beyond VPN-based access.
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