Key Takeaway
There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing an SSE provider. Let Uniti Solutions be part of the conversation to help guide you towards the right solution and services for your organization.
March 12, 2025 · Chris Alberding · 8 min
Business leaders are realizing just how daunting it is to choose the right SSE vendor for their organization, especially since there are many different providers that offer a wide range of services. Use this guide to help you properly evaluate the right SSE provider for your organization.
Security Service Edge (SSE) is a modern IT security framework for enterprises designed for today’s work environment—helping businesses deploy next generation security services to office locations and equally important, work-from-home and hybrid employees to enterprise services. While interest in this new security architecture is at an all-time high, CIOs and IT leaders are realizing just how daunting it is to choose the right technology provider for their organization, especially since there are many different providers that offer a wide range of services.
As a result, organizations are confronted with a complex (and sometimes overwhelming) buyers’ journey—where does one even begin? How do you effectively evaluate SSE products to determine which one is best suited for your organization? And in general, what specific steps can you take to best position yourself to make the right choice for your company and to navigate the benefits and challenges of each vendor?
Before you take these questions to the list of potential SSE suitors, businesses should understand the difference between Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and SSE—mainly to ensure they are choosing the right solution for their needs. Both SSE and SASE deliver integrated security capabilities designed to reduce cost and network security complexity and increase visibility and performance. It’s a tall order, which emphasizes the importance of picking the right provider to partner with.
If you are looking to embrace an SSE strategy, it’s likely that you are looking for:
Once you are certain that SSE is the right solution you are looking for, then you are ready to delve into the question, “which SSE provider is right for my organization?” There are a lot of factors to answering this question and so to support you in your SSE-buying journey, here is a list of considerations you should explore while evaluating providers:
Gartner has predicted that by 2025, 80% of organizations buying SSE-related security services will look to purchase a consolidated SSE solution, rather than stand-alone cloud access security broker, secure web gateway and ZTNA offerings. This number is up from 15% in 2021. That means there is a growing number of organizations that will likely be asking themselves to choose the right SSE vendor for their organization over the next couple of years.
It’s important to note that each organization will have its own unique path to evaluating SSE providers based on their specific business needs. It’s a highly personalized journey that takes current investments and needs into account, while balancing them with ambitions and IT/security budgets for the future. Consider consulting with a trusted security advisor to guide you through the selection process.
To learn more about SSE and find out if it’s the right fit for your business, talk to a security expert today.
Chris Alberding oversees the company’s network and security solutions, and has global responsibilities for product revenue forecasts and budgets, as well as strategic and tactical expertise in product management, marketing, process design and sales operations.