{"id":52748,"date":"2023-07-13T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3702649\/microsoft-jumps-into-competitive-security-service-edge-sse-arena.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-07-13T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:40:00","slug":"microsoft-jumps-into-competitive-security-service-edge-sse-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-jumps-into-competitive-security-service-edge-sse-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft jumps into competitive security service edge (SSE) arena"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft is jumping into the competitive Secure Service Edge (SSE<\/a>) arena with a software package aimed at protecting its Windows and Azure customers as well as other cloud-based enterprise resources.<\/p>\n

The new software is part of Microsoft\u2019s Entra identity and network access suite, and it features two new elements \u2013 Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access \u2013 that will control and secure access to cloud-based resources. Those two new pieces, coupled with Microsoft\u2019s existing SaaS-focused cloud-access security broker (CASB), called Microsoft Defender for Cloud apps, comprise Microsoft’s SSE package.<\/p>\n

SSE packages<\/a>, according to Gartner, include access control, threat protection, data security, security monitoring, and acceptable-use control enforced by network-based and API-based integration. SSE is primarily delivered as a cloud-based service, and it may include on-premises or agent-based components, the research firm says.<\/p>\n

As for the new components, Microsoft Entra Internet Access is a secure web gateway (SWG) for SaaS apps and internet traffic that protects against malicious internet traffic, unsafe or non-compliant content, and other threats from the open internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, you can block access to all external destinations for your high-risk users or non-compliant devices except self-service password reset pages,\u201d according to a blog<\/a> by Sinead O’Donovan, vice president of product management with Microsoft\u2019s identity and network access division. \u201cIt also extends the conditions of conditional access with network conditions and would prevent, for example, a stolen access session token from being replayed by requiring a user to be on a \u2018compliant network\u2019 to access resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entra Private Access implements zero trust network access (ZTNA) technology for controlling access to private applications, no matter where the user is \u2013 in the office or remote – and regardless of where the application is hosted \u2013 a local on-premises data center or in any public cloud, according to O\u2019Donovan. <\/p>\n