19 December 2022
Forcepoint’s single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution has now been made available globally. With the Forcepoint ONE Security Service Edge (SSE) platform and FlexEdge Secure SD-WAN, distributed businesses and government agencies can connect and protect their hybrid workforces with a wide range of centrally managed networking and security solutions that are sourced and supported from a single company. This approach avoids the burdens, inefficiencies, and risks that otherwise come with piecing together a patchwork of point products and dealing with multiple vendors.
As organisations around the world bring people back into the office, SASE provides a cloud-based architecture that can simplify their adoption of zero trust. Forcepoint’s data-first SASE solutions take this a step further, building advanced data security into its adaptive-access gateways and intelligently distributing enforcement of security policies based on where each user is working.
Incorporating zero trust web access technology into Forcepoint ONE’s secure web gateway (SWG) service enables web security policies to be configured centrally and enforced in the cloud for sites or on the endpoint for people working from home. This distributed enforcement provides the breadth of protection needed at offices — where BYOD, IoT, specialty workstations, and guest computers are commonplace — as well as the fast user experience that remote workers now expect. Forcepoint’s endpoint-based web security makes this possible by eliminating the latency that comes with cloud-only approaches, enabling secure web browsing to run up to twice as fast.
Forcepoint’s cloud-based and endpoint-based web security take advantage of the zero trust-based advanced threat protection and data loss prevention capabilities built into Forcepoint ONE. Risky or unknown websites can be automatically routed through the platform’s remote browser isolation (RBI) service and used safely, even if they’re harbouring malicious code. Forcepoint RBI incorporates advanced content, disarm and reconstruction (CDR) technology to sanitise documents as they are being downloaded. Thus, even compromised websites can be used without exposing devices, networks, and sensitive business data to attacks. New dashboards in Forcepoint ONE also make it easy for administrators to see when threats have been encountered and blocked.
