Factors such as digitization, internationalization and the increasingly widespread use of IoT and mobile devices are fueling the complexity of today’s corporate networks as well as the task of safeguarding against hackers, business espionage, etc. Also, with the commencement of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, businesses are obliged to ensure “adequate protection” through “suitable technical measures” to prevent the loss of their data. However, in parallel, IT departments are constantly understaffed in many businesses, causing problems to be dealt with too late, which in effect leads to high costs.

To address this issue, they can benefit from software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) network technology which lays the foundation for efficient, centralized protection from the cloud. This network technology is more cost-efficient as well as the set-up, installation, and maintenance take much less time and resources. Besides, the SD-WAN creates a “sealed corporate network” across all sites, creating the basis for centralized, comprehensive enterprise protection against outside attacks, for example through the implementation of a powerful Next Generation Firewall. It makes sense to move the security stack to...