Forcepoint revamped its cloud security portfolio today with a new service it bills as an “easy button” for securing distributed and hybrid workforces.
Dubbed Forcepoint One, the security services edge (SSE) platform consolidates a bevy of cloud security capabilities, including zero-trust network access, secure web gateway, remote browser isolation, and Cloud Access Security Broker into a single product.
“Imagine working as part of a security team having to have visibility and control over every hybrid workers' interaction with your company’s data in the web, in the cloud with one of those Software-as-a-Service apps, and in private apps. How could they possibly do so from 50 management consoles opened on their Mac. It’s impossible, yet we expect our colleagues to do this every day,” Forcepoint CEO Manny Rivelo said in a statement. “Clearly the old approach of managing 50-plus point products isn’t working.”
If Forcepoint One sounds an awful lot like a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, that’s because apart from SD-WAN, the new service shares many of the same features offered by Forcepoint and Bitglass, which the vendor acquired late last year for an undisclosed sum.
In fact, Gartner’s SSE product category encompasses platforms and vendors offering the cloud security but not the edge networking or SD-WAN part of the SASE equation. Gartner defines SSE as including “access control, threat protection, data security, security monitoring, and acceptable-use control enforced by network-based and API-based integrations.”
In addition to core SASE security functionality, Forcepoint One also includes content disarm and reconstruction, advanced threat protection, and data-loss prevention. These services are delivered from more than 300 global points of presence running on Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
Forcepoint One is available now as an annual, per-user subscription with options for web, cloud, and private Application security.
Forcepoint was one of several vendors identified as a niche player in Gartner's latest SSE Magic Quadrant report. Leading the pack were Zscaler, Netskope, and McAfee Enterprise.
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