Extending advanced services to the WAN Edge of the network can have a serious impact on a security architecture and strategy. News cycles are filled with stories about critical network breaches that began by taking advantage of some neglected element of the network, whether by exploiting a vulnerable IoT device or by hijacking some wireless access point at a remote retail location.
Those stories are almost always the result of an organization failing to have a single, consistent security strategy that can shine a light into every corner of the network. Which is exactly why organizations cannot wait until the analysis and selection of an SD-WAN solution has been completed before asking the security team how they should go about adding protections to this new solution.When CISOs are engaged in the selection of a Secure SD-WAN solution, they not only enable their organization to build a robust WAN edge, but they can also ensure that those connections don’t become the weak link in the security chain.
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