How SSEs Boost Cloud-Native Application Security in Healthcare

A security service edge simplifies security across cloud, multicloud and hybrid cloud environments.The phrase “cloud-native apps” gets thrown around a lot. But 9 times out of 10, what we’re really talking about is Software as a Service, especially among healthcare organizations that don’t necessarily have the in-house staff to develop, manage and secure their own apps in the cloud.Many organizations are eager to transition whatever applications and functions they can into a SaaS environment and minimize what they must keep on-premises. Some functions are easier to offload onto SaaS than others, but many prefer the ease of SaaS.Nevertheless, many IT decision-makers remain wary of security in the cloud. In fact, 59% of respondents to a survey conducted by Fortinet cited security as the main barrier to cloud adoption.

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An SSE governs security policy and application access and usability for cloud environments. It helps you determine what users are allowed to do, when they’re allowed to do it and how they’re allowed to do it.At a basic level, an SSE provides a secure web gateway to govern what apps are accessible, which can help avoid shadow IT, especially in hybrid and remote environments. It also provides a web application firewall to monitor and filter HTTP traffic. Application programming interface security and web encryption also come standard with SSEs. In most cases, SSEs scrutinize HTTP traffic much more granularly than a web administrator would have time for. It’s far easier to build in and execute predefined rules with SSE.

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