Digital Guardian Secure Service Edge: Endpoint-to-Cloud Protection

The rise of remote and hybrid work has driven a greater reliance on cloud and SaaS applications. As traditional office networks fade, security teams must secure multiple interconnecting environments and maintain control over sensitive data—all without disrupting workflows.

Digital Guardian Secure Service Edge (SSE)—which combines Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and Secure Web Gateway (SWG)—protects users against internet-based threats, secures data stored in managed and unmanaged cloud applications, and secures remote access to private apps.

By extending traditional endpoint security to the cloud, web, and private apps, Digital Guardian SSE provides ultimate visibility into user activity across multiple environments, detects and mitigates cyber threats, and protects sensitive data throughout its life cycle.

Comprehensive Security, Simplified

Eliminate security gaps, protect data everywhere, reduce complexity, and streamline management with a unified security framework.

Comprehensive Protection

Extend traditional endpoint and network security to the cloud, web, and private apps for comprehensive, gapless data protection.

Granular Access Control

Implement precise user access controls based on real-time insights, ensuring secure resource access without backhauling traffic or otherwise compromising productivity.

Unified Policy Framework

Easily manage and enforce security policies across users, endpoints (managed and unmanaged), apps (sanctioned and unsanctioned), and data.

Streamlined Management

Consolidate multiple security products into a single, unified solution, simplifying management and reducing complexity.

Enhanced Visibility

Have full visibility into user activity, cloud usage, private apps, and sensitive data, allowing you to detect and respond to threats effectively.

Digital Guardian SSE Integrations

Digital Guardian SSE combines multiple data protection tools into a single, integrated solution to fill security gaps and reduce complexity:

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

The challenge: Organizations lack visibility into sensitive data stored in the cloud, along with control over user activity, data movement, and SaaS and IaaS resources.

CASB integration: Provides full visibility into the type, location, and use of data across multi-cloud deployments via inline and API-based security, and secures real-time collaboration, data sharing in email, and cloud storage.

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

The challenge: Organizations' lack of visibility into internet usage makes them—and their sensitive data—vulnerable to multiple internet-based threats, including phishing, malware, accidental data leakage, and user-initiated attacks.

SWG integration: Inspects all incoming and outgoing web traffic to filter malicious websites and downloads, protects against zero-day phishing threats, controls employees' use of unapproved hardware and software (i.e., shadow IT), and prevents the accidental leakage of sensitive data.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

The challenge: Traditional VPN deployments are often challenging to administer, generally unable to regulate access based on the principle of least privileges, and are prone to exploitable vulnerabilities, meaning attackers can gain unrestricted network access with the ability to move laterally.

ZTNA integration: Circumvents common pitfalls of traditional VPNs, prevents lateral network movement, and cloaks internal applications, providing zero-trust remote access to those applications while securing sensitive data stored within them.

Digital Guardian SSE + Analytics & Reporting Cloud (ARC)

Digital Guardian’s Analytics & Reporting Cloud (ARC) integrates with Security Service Edge (SSE) to provide unified data protection across endpoints, cloud, web, and internal access points. Our cloud-powered solution delivers real-time analytics based on data drawn from each component of Digital Guardian's DLP Platform, including Endpoint DLP, Network DLP, and SSE, enabling proactive threat prevention and streamlined policy enforcement.

From filtering and blocking web-based threats, to configuring and implementing access controls based the principle of least privilege, to generating detailed reports for facilitating compliance, ARC centralizes the various capabilities of SSE's Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) for robust data protection.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a secure service edge (SSE)?

Secure service edge (SSE) is a set of cloud-based products and services that secure access to the web, cloud tools and services, and private applications. More specifically, SSE capabilities can include access control, threat protection & monitoring, and policy enforcement by network-based and API-based integration. SSE may also include on-premises or agent-based components.

What is the difference between SSE and SASE?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a broader, holistic approach to cloud transformation that combines networking and security capabilities at the WAN edge and SSE, respectively. In other words, SSE is one of the two major components of the SASE framework. SSE focuses exclusively on unifying security products and services, providing end-to-end protection for users and applications. As a broader framework, SASE architecture aims to support hybrid and remote workforces while simultaneously simplifying management, reducing complexity, and improving the user-to-cloud application experience.

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SSE vs. CASB vs. SWG vs. ZTNA

While SSE can be thought of as a framework or product platform, a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) are the products that commonly make up such a framework.

A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is a security policy enforcement point placed between organizations and their cloud service providers to manage and enforce secure access to cloud-based resources.

A Secure Web Gateway (SWG) protects PCs from web-based infections, filters malicious software and malware, facilitates regulatory policy compliance, and enforces organizations' security policies.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) creates an identity- and context-based, logical access boundary around a single or set of private applications, enabling secure remote access.

What sets Digital Guardian's SSE solution apart?

SSE works in tandem with each component of the broader Digital Guardian DLP Platform to create and maintain gapless security for data throughout its life cycle. While Endpoint DLP protects data at its creation, data in use, and data at rest on endpoints, and Network DLP protects data in motion, SSE then extends that coverage to the cloud and web while monitoring access privileges. These platform components, including SSE, then provide critical insights to ARC, facilitating swifter threat protection, incident response, and regulatory compliance.

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