How cloud-first SD-WAN can simplify IoT adoption

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Operating from a single pane of glass
With multiple locations connecting potentially thousands or even more ‘things’, it can become difficult to manage. In order to navigate this, organisations need to see data traffic flow in one simple interface – so they know exactly how their network is performing and what it is up-to in any one given moment. It is very hard to track an incident, for example, if you have to work on 10 different interfaces and try to understand which application is impacted on what level, where and why.

With technology such as SD-WAN, customers can reduce complexity, bring down costs, improve performance, automate operations and rely on a security layer that works and can be constantly improved without additional investments – all through a single view.

Isolating vulnerable IoT devices
While SD-WAN can deliver a more flexible network – in which data and bandwidth can be seamlessly shared across locations and territories – it does often result in questions being asked around security. These concerns are typically intensified when the notion of connected devices are brought into the equation.

There are endless IoT applications and devices employees can access, in addition multiple different security products in operation at any given enterprise. Yet by using SD-WAN ‘zoning’, IoT solutions or devices can be isolated to ensure that, even if they experience an attack, the entire enterprise does not become compromised.

SD-WAN provides management for these complex orchestrations, offering such capabilities to help operate IoT in a secure way. Additionally, implementing this zoning solution in a WAN infrastructure keeps attacks contained and buys crucial time for analysis and response to threats.

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