Secure Service Edge

Winner: Axis Atmos Security Service Edge Platform

Short for “Atmosphere,” Atmos is a security service edge (SSE) platform—a set of integrated, cloud-delivered, security services that use identity and policy to broker secure connections between authorized users and business resources. Atmos helps IT avoid the need to connect users to the corporate network, drastically reduces exposure to ransomware threats, and provides an unprecedented level of visibility. Using a zero trust architecture, Atmos extends secure connectivity to users’ locations through 350 Atmos edge locations running on the global backbone of AWS Global Accelerator, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle, syncing authentication, authorization and connectivity across the workforce, ecosystem partners and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Finalists:

Barracuda CloudGen WAN

Cisco+ Secure Connect

The Lookout Cloud Security Platform

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) from Windstream Enterprise