General availability of the Microsoft Entra Suite is expected to shake up the nascent SSE industry, putting particular pressure on smaller vendors.
SSE – secure service edge – is a cloud-based way to deliver secure access to corporate systems, SaaS applications, and the Internet in general. At its core, SSE combines three main technologies: cloud-access security broker (CASB), secure web gateway, and zero-trust network access (ZTNA).
After sharing its SSE plans last year, Microsoft this month announced the availability of Microsoft Entra Suite, which includes ZTNA and a secure web gateway. In addition to these two core SSE services, Microsoft Entra Suite includes identity governance and administration, identity protection, and identity verification.
