iStock If you still only see SD-WAN as a replacement for your branch WAN solution, you haven’t been looking closely enough. Of course, distributed organizations still need a flexible and reliable solution to move data, applications, and workflows between branch offices and the cloud. Traditional MPLS connections backhauling traffic through the corporate network no longer meet evolving business needs. It’s why IDC expects that 80 percent of enterprises will have defined an SD-WAN strategy by the end of 2021. By transforming their WAN architectures with SD-WAN, organizations can leverage such functions as dynamic path selection, optimized application delivery, and accelerated cloud on-ramp to deliver business-critical applications to the WAN Edge—even for the most bandwidth-hungry applications—all while delivering instant ROI benefits. Unfortunately, most SD-WAN solutions lack one critical component—integrated security. Instead, they require customers to build, deploy, and manage their own security overlay, making SD-WAN deployments cumbersome, expensive, and far less agile.