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Security Service Edge Providers

Security Service Edge

What is Security Service Edge Providers?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), pronounced "sassy" combines WAN capabilities with network security functions such as secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), firewall as a service (FWaaS) and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) to support secure access no matter where users, applications or devices are located. This single cloud-delivered service model helps with flexibility, cost savings, reducing complexity and increasing threat and data protection. An increase in remote users and software has increased the need for a scalable and agile solution that replaces the physical and virtual point solution.

Common Features

  • Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
  • Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
  • Zero Trust
  • Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
  • Data Analytics / BI / AI
  • Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
  • Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
  • Network Sandboxes
  • Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS
  • Enablement for Security Teams

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Top Security Service Edge Providers 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

Cisco Systems

Cisco Umbrella

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10

Cisco Umbrella offers flexible, cloud-delivered security when and how you need it. It combines multiple security functions into one solution, so you can extend protection to devices, remote users, and distributed locations anywhere.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
CloudFlare

Cloudflare

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Effective Service
ADAMnetworks

adam:ONE

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

adam:ONE® is a SASE solution focused on Zero Trust connectivity at each network edge. It is compatible with all types of IP network deployments, on-premise or cloud-centric. The system functions without agents, tunnels, proxies or the need to break encryption and is thus also effective for OT. Some of the core elements are: dynamic machine driven allowlisting; egress control by preventing traffic that did not originate with a permitted DNS query, using Don’t Talk to Strangers (DTTS)® and threat intelligence aggregation (DNSharmony®).

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Inspires Innovation
Aruba Networks

Aruba EdgeConnect

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10

Aruba Edge-to-Cloud Security for the Intelligent Edge. Full visibility, control, and enforcement with a built-in foundation for Zero Trust and SASE frameworks.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Palo Alto Networks

Prisma Access

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Prisma SASE is the secure foundation for agile, cloud-enabled organizations. Prisma SASE converges best-of-breed security with best-of-breed next-gen SD-WAN into the cloud-delivered platform. It consolidates multiple point products, including ZTNA, Cloud SWG, CASB, FWaaS, and SD-WAN, into a single integrated service, reducing network and security complexity while increasing organizational agility. Prisma SASE secures all apps used by your hybrid workforce, regardless of whether users are remote, mobile, or working from a branch office. Our proven cloud-delivered security services leverage ML-powered threat prevention.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

SASE is the future of converged security and networking. From ZTNA, SWG to cloud-delivered NGFW, the Fortinet platform provides complete readiness for embracing SASE. SASE Solution - Cloud Delivered Security for Distributed Networks

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service
Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated and users work from anywhere, the hub-and-spoke networks and perimeter security we once relied on—VPNs and firewalls—fail to provide strong cyber and data protection and deliver poor user experience. Stretching your network like this enables cybercriminals to attack and compromise sensitive data.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Fair
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

VMware SASE Platform provides secure, reliable, and optimized access to traditional and new applications for mobile clients, branches, and campuses with a single, holistic solution. The secure access service edge (SASE) platform that converges cloud networking and cloud security service to deliver flexibility, agility, and scale for enterprises of all sizes.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful
  • Fair
Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

With users everywhere and apps and data in the cloud, work no longer occurs in designated locations. But this means the legacy perimeter is insufficient. To protect anywhere, anytime access to apps and data, you need security that is software-defined and cloud-delivered in order to regain the visibility and controls you once had.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status

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Twingate Inc

Twingate

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Twingate is a modern alternative to VPN that you can set up in 15 minutes or less. Easier to use and more secure than any VPN.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing