Coming to me in the form of Sonicwall’s Cloud Secure Edge (at a monthly, per-user cost), I understand the basics of what they say it’s going to do, but I also have been doing this long enough to understand when someone’s using a lot of buzzwords and scare tactics to hype a much simpler concept that I feel I am not as much up on. I would welcome any and all comments from those of you with any experience in implementing/utilizing/understanding SSE. Thanks in advance!


Much like Zero Trust it looks like a framework on providing access to privileged information based on policies. Looks to integrate zero trust with a cloud firewall and session broker.
Where I’m trying to get is, zero-trust being a good framework, does it make sense to go with SW’s proposal, or can I do it myself for less/no cost with other solutions out there? It seems like MS has an offering under “Global Secure Access” that might be bundled in with Office365 premium, so I’ve started focusing there…
As a rule of thumb IMO the fewer features you implement with M365 the better.
Yeah, I get that. The disruption to everyone’s workday switching to FOSS services would be immediate and (figuratively) violent…but I’ve had some conversations down that road…
I’m not talking about FOSS. It’s just M365 really sucks to administrate and when I see how you’re supposed to configure it and what the defaults are, I’m regularly like
