SSE Survey

1. How extensive is your enterprise's global presence?

In 1-9 countries In 10+ countries

2. What is the size of your enterprise workforce?

Less than 5000 5001-10,000 Over 10,000

3. Where are your enterprise applications currently hosted?

Completely cloud-native, all workloads in the cloud Mostly hosted on public clouds, connected via the internet Hybrid: business-critical/customer-facing apps in public cloud, rest in our data center Currently using a private data center, open to public cloud migration All in our Data Center, no plans to change

4. Describe your enterprise’s approach to SaaS.

High SaaS adoption with full visibility and control over SaaS apps Limited visibility, no investment in tools for complete visibility and control Not using SaaS or not relevant

5. How agile is your connection to newly onboarded cloud applications?

Immediate connectivity ensured through our centralized service edge solution Through Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) private cloud Manual extension needed

6. How granular is your control overshadow IT, sanctioned SaaS, and Web applications?

Early adopters of Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and we have full control for shadow IT, sanctioned SaaS, and web applications Recent deployed Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) to gain full control for shadow IT, sanctioned SaaS, and web applications Partial control for shadow IT, sanctioned SaaS, and web applications No control over shadow IT, sanctioned SaaS, and web applications

7. What remote working policies are in place for your enterprise?

Enabled flexible working policies for the entire workforce Available for pre-defined employees only Most employees work in-office, remote working not applicable

8. How do you enable secure access to private applications?

Early adopters of unified user-based policy management Leveraging Integrated Identity Provider (IDP), with user-based policies tailored for each device separately No user-based policies for remote users

9. How are network and security functions organized?

Report to a common head, enabling unified decision-making Separate and siloed teams, varying in design and decisions Unified, network & security teams empowered to manage secure access

10. What's your current enterprise security model?

Completely transitioned to cloud-based security via SSE All security functions migrated to the cloud Partial cloud transition, some functions like Proxy, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)  are on-premises Fully on-premises

11. How do you manage network and security?

In-house teams manage both network and security Single Managed Security Provider (MSSP) for both Completely outsourced to multiple partners One in-house, the other outsourced

12. What components are up for renewal in the next 12 months?

VPN concentrator Proxy solution Threat protection None

13. Describe about your current Web control?

We are early adopters of cloud-based proxy solution for both office and remote users We have deployed on-premises web control for both office and remote users but are looking to transition to cloud based in future Office users will access internet via on-premises Proxy, but remote users can access open internet

14. How prepared is your enterprise against known and unknown threats?

Early adopters of cloud-based intrusion and zero-day threat protection Recently deployed cloud-based intrusion and zero-day threat protection On-premises for both intrusion and zero-day threat protection, but considering cloud transition On-premises for both intrusion and zero-day threat protection, no plans to change Intrusion prevention only No threat protection in place

15. How is sensitive data protected from theft & leakages?

Early adopter of dedicated on-premises Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with custom policies Recently deployed dedicated on-premises Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Web and email traffic inspected via Internet gateway for blocking certain use cases Partial Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities, either web-based or email-based No Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in place

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