Netskope Security Service Edge (SSE) for Central & Local Government and Healthcare (UK)

Four security challenges government and healthcare organisations can overcome with SSE

The UK public sector faces significant data privacy and cybersecurity challenges as it navigates the complexities of digital transformation, a hybrid workforce, cloud adoption, technology consolidation, and evolving cyber threats. Maintaining adequate defences on-prem was already hard enough for government and healthcare services, but now the opportunities for attack and the lack of visibility leave many risks not just unchecked, but unknown.

To address the gaps in security created by this new heavily-remote workforce, both local and central government and healthcare are moving towards Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), an architecture that combines several different security and networking elements, at one time siloed, for enhanced security in organisations where cloud access and applications are now ubiquitous. Security Service Edge (SSE), an important concept for understanding the journey to a SASE architecture, represents the evolving security stack needed to successfully achieve a SASE convergence, including technology capabilities such as cloud access security broker (CASB), cloud-native next-gen secure web gateway (NG SWG), firewall-as- a-service, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) that are core requirements for that stack.