Announcing cloud-native integration of security service edge (SSE) with Cloud WAN

Last week at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced Cloud WAN, a fully managed, reliable, and secure solution for enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures that’s built on Google’s planet-scale network. Today, we begin a series of deep dives into the products that power Cloud WAN, starting with NCC Gateway, a new regionally managed spoke of Network Connectivity Center (NCC) that integrates cloud-native security services, starting with third-party security service edge (SSE) solutions.

Securing the modern hybrid workforce is complex, driven by the surge of SaaS and remote work. In fact, many enterprises still employ disparate security stacks for on-premises and remote users. For on-prem deployments — especially for branches and campuses — a common approach is to use a colocation-based architecture, in which regional branches aggregate traffic in a colo using SD-WAN headends or VPN concentrators, and firewalls secure user traffic. However, remote users often connect via SSE, resulting in inconsistent security enforcement policies for remote and on-prem users. 

To state the obvious, managing separate solutions for on-prem and remote user access to public and private applications can be challenging for security administrators...

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