After the introduction of security service edge (SSE) with the February 2022 release of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SSE, organizations may be wondering how they should choose an SSE vendor from the many profiled in the Gartner report. Interestingly enough during this year’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in June 2022, Gartner actually had a session titled “Do I Buy a SSE Product From a CASB Vendor or a SWG Vendor?”
The question is an interesting one because many of the vendors profiled in the Magic Quadrant started as a vendor of one of the three pillar technologies of SSE, either a cloud access security broker (CASB), secure web gateway (SW