Secure SD-WAN: SD-WAN solutions have become increasingly popular as organizations demand fast, scalable and flexible connectivity between different network environments and seek to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) while preserving the user experience.
The wrong SD-WAN solution can have serious consequences for an organization's ability to adapt quickly to business changes, as it can create new security problems.
This includes the possibility of unauthorized access to the organization's data, disruption to connectivity and increased maintenance costs due to regular updates needed to ensure security.
In addition, the inappropriate choice of SD-WAN service providers can cause serious performance problems, such as slow data transfer speeds, latency and connection stability issues. Therefore, choosing the right SD-WAN solution is essential to ensure that the organization's business operations are carried out securely and efficiently.
Home Office use
SD-WAN might be better understood to support complex branch deployments and help organizations reduce their dependence on branch routers and other legacy technologies.
Effective solutions for SD-WAN go far beyond the needs of branch offices, however, its functionality can extend to home office and teleworker use - especially devices with LTE integrated for consistent connectivity - and between distributed clouds.
Solutions SD-WAN also need to come in virtual versions that are available in multi-cloud environments and have deeper integration to allow the rise of the cloud, enabling efficient SaaS adoption.
Touchless deployments
Both features enable faster configuration deployments at scale, often in minutes, to enable the best possible performance of collaboration applications such as VoIP, video conferencing and various SaaS applications, even for remote users based far from the corporate data center.
Orchestration enables overlay automation (VPN) for the most complex network with intuitive workflows.
Prioritizes critical applications and WAN self-healing
Connectivity alone is not enough, especially in a heavy-duty remote environment. A solution needs to identify a broad set of applications to meet all use cases, while advanced self-healing WAN automation will provide a consistent user experience across any transport for any user.
Many solutions SD-WAN only support limited use cases, limited numbers of users and/or specific environments.
Integration for a Secure SD-WAN
The difference between SD-WAN and Secure SD-WAN is that the latter is a solution, while the former is a connectivity offering that provides another channel for the bad guys to attack your network.
An overlay security solution cannot adapt to dynamic connectivity environments; security needs to be built into each SD-WAN device, allowing home users, branch office users and the data center to use a common set of security policies and enforcement criteria.
In true secure SD-WAN, the network, connectivity and security functions are so integrated that they are the only solution that meets three needs, rather than three different solutions.
Comprehensive analysis and reports
A secure SD-WAN solution needs to help organizations gain visibility into network and application performance (real-time and historical statistics). This includes enhanced analytics as well as improved compliance.
A single console and rich SD-WAN analytics can help you adjust your business and security policies to improve the quality of experience for all your users.
The difference between SD-WAN and Secure SD-WAN is that the latter is a security solution designed to protect the corporate network with an additional layer of security, while the former is a connectivity offering that provides another channel for the bad guys to attack your network.
A Secure SD-WAN offers features such as firewallSecure SD-WAN offers data encryption, identity management, user authentication and other security solutions, with the aim of protecting critical company data from cyber attacks. Unlike SD-WAN, which offers no protection against external threats, Secure SD-WAN allows companies to surf the Internet safely and confidently.
