With RSA San Francisco—one of, if not the biggest security show of the year—behind us, it’s a good time to revisit security and SD-WANs. I know, we already lived through Yoda’s prognostications about ...

Jim Richberg is field CISO at Fortinet and former national intelligence manager for cyber in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He previously coordinated the Comprehensive National ...

A networking vendor simply can’t jump into this space. Some SD-WANs add stateful packet filters and call this security. During its inception, we had the early adopters and pure SD-WAN players. Soon it ...

Channel-first telecom management service provider Nitel is expanding its portfolio of managed services to include software-defined WAN and software-defined security services to its ecosystem of ...

Of course, the main driver behind software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is the increasing use of cloud-based services by organisations. We are not just talking about public cloud – it also includes using ...

Let's presume that it's time for your enterprise to choose and implement an SD-WAN solution. You've done the research, and have decided that SD-WAN makes sense, perhaps to supplement existing ...

For those of you who have been reading the Telstra blogs on ZDNet of late, you'll notice that I recently wrote about SD-WAN as a holistic technology architecture and whether 2018 is the year that ...

As thousands of African companies start to investigate and/or deploy SD-WAN solutions, one consistent question arises – security implications. The benefits of SD-WAN seem to have resonated with many ...

SD-WAN in general is neither more or less secure than traditional WANs. But working with a third-party can help ensure security. As organizations explore SD-WAN as a way to make their networks more ...

Predicting the future isn’t always as difficult as it may seem. It involves seeing and understanding the concept of inevitability. Inevitability curves exist when you can see a state that will ...

Perhaps we exaggerate, but IT professionals, especially those involved in telecommunications, should always beware of anything that's connected to the Internet, as well as services provided across the ...

SD-WAN is fast becoming a go-to technology for IT departments and organizations looking to reduce the cost of connecting their various sites. Historically, private links such as MPLS, T1, and Private ...