Versa has introduced Inbound SSE™, a cloud-delivered capability that enables the company’s Security Service Edge (SSE) solution to protect applications, APIs, and services from inbound internet traffic before it reaches enterprise environments. The company claims this eliminates the need for traditional on-premises firewalls or load balancers by inspecting connections in the cloud.

With Inbound SSE™, inbound traffic is routed through the nearest Versa cloud gateway, where security policies such as access control, bot filtering, malware detection, and denial-of-service mitigation are applied before traffic reaches applications. Versa claims this approach simplifies security management, scales automatically with demand, and allows enterprises and service providers to secure distributed workloads without adding hardware.

Built on the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform, the vendor says the architecture unifies protection for both inbound and outbound traffic, letting organizations secure users, applications, and internet-facing resources through a single framework. Versa claims early adopters, including Swisscom’s beem service, are able to reduce reliance on hardware firewalls while maintaining local hosting and delivering managed security services more efficiently.

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