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How SD-WAN Reduces Cloud Risk

SD-WAN is quickly becoming a popular choice for businesses looking to optimize traffic and improve performance for cloud applications. However, what many people don’t realize is that SD-WAN can also help reduce the risk for cloud deployments. SD-WAN technology is growing in popularity as a way to reduce the complexity and risk of using cloud services. But what specifically does SD-WAN do to reduce cloud risk? In this article, we’ll take a look at how SD-WAN works and how it can help to take advantage of the cloud while keeping the data safe.

Cloud Security with SD–WAN

With an increase in cyber-crimes across the globe, cyber threats are becoming disastrous for vulnerable victim organisations. Whether these are phishers, scammers, viruses or even bots, they can be very dangerous to corporate data. During the days of the pandemic, corporate data had become more vulnerable to cyber attacks with orders to work from home. Hackers across the world are exploiting remote working networks during these unfavorable times, taking advantage of very minor human errors and weak network security layers.

Is MPLS Needed for SD-WAN?

SD-WAN is rapidly capturing the market of MPLS, which was dominating for decades. But both technologies have their limitations as well as their advantages. Though infant SD-WAN seems reliant on MPLS in some major fields, this reliance is not unavoidable. SD-WAN can still altogether bypass MPLS. But it should not be recommended. A perfect hybrid of SD-WAN and MPLS can benefit business organizations in terms of cost-saving, increased security, reduced packet loss, reduced latency, and performance enhancement.

Getting SASE with SD–WAN

Wide area networking (WAN) is a traditional networking solution based on multi-protocol label switching (MPLS). In such solutions, the reliability of the connection depends upon pre-defined communicating nodes. But these high-performance networking links between the two sites face limited bandwidths along with some other physical constrains. Hardware defined pre-setup in WAN is the major reason to shift towards a software defined – wide area networking (SD–WAN) solution.

Home as a Branch Site With SD–WAN

Organisations across the globe are rapidly adopting new technologies to meet customer demand during increasing market competition. It is necessary for their survival to keep pace with emerging trends in the market. Fluctuating customer demands, the introduction of new trends to the market and advancements in the technological sphere always cause big changes in the market.

6 Benefits How SD–WAN Will Improve Your Life

Remote Work Solutions

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we are living in the middle of a chaotic situation. As the situation is highly ambitious and even unknown, that is the reason many organizations and businesses are moving towards remote working solutions for continuing operation of their companies. Those who have adopted the remote working solution, are able to continue their business operations as usual. Although not in the same way as before the pandemic, but successful enough to maintain the continuity of their business processes. Due to continuous adoption of remote working solution among the companies, competition is again picking the pace and organizations are trying best to adopt best remote working practices to lead their market share. That is why, it is highly necessary for businesses of all sizes to learn and adopt remote working solutions to pursue their business activities in a productive way.

Versa vs Silver Peak SD-WAN

According to updated reports of the Dell’Oro Group, there are five top SD–WAN vendors who are running toe-to-toe for supremacy in the SD–WAN market share. The year 2019 was seen as a breakout year for the adoption of SD–WAN when it surpassed a $1 billion market share. According to already mentioned reports, Cisco, Versa Network, VMware, Silver Peak and Fortinet are holding high ranking positions, as these top SD–WAN market leaders accounted for a 60% accumulated share in the generated revenue in 2019. But none of them surpassed a 20% share of the market, which shows a high potential for competition among the market giants for dominance. That is why these are still early days for penetration into the market.

SD-WAN vs IPsec VPN’s

An encrypted connection between two or more computers is called a virtual private network, commonly known as a VPN. These VPN connections are subjected to public networks, but exchange of data is private because of encryption. It becomes possible to share and securely access confidential data over public networks using VPNs. For example, corporate employees often use VPNs when they work from home or work remotely to access and share corporate files and applications securely.

What is SASE?

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a combinational network architecture of SD–WAN and Remote Access VPN that combines the capabilities of both and delivers them as a service. It combines functionalities and capabilities of SD–WAN and VPN with cloud native security functions, for example, firewalls, secure web gateways, zero trust network access and cloud access security brokers. SASE vendors offer these cloud-delivered functions as a service.