Securing Hosted Websites with SonicWall Cloud Secure Edge (CSE)

Protect your hosted websites and enable access without a VPN

  • Updated on May 31, 2024

Overview

Cloud Secure Edge (CSE) uses OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication flows to provide your end users secure Zero Trust access to websites via web browsers. CSE’s security mechanism is designed to be completely transparent to both the user and the service it is securing.

The flow diagrams below describes how CSE’s zero-trust access control security mechanism works for Hosted Websites. Review the Publish a Website to Users guide to see how to create a Zero Trust policy for a website and conveniently access it from a web browser.

Access to Hosted Websites

Sections

Publish a Hosted Website to Users

Use Let's Encrypt Certificates

Service Accounts

Multi-domain (Wildcard) Web Services

Cross-origin Resources (CORS)

API-level (Layer-7) Policies

Notes on Hosted Websites