As you move more applications to the cloud, securing your business-critical data and apps is probably top of mind. Unfortunately, the need for secure access to apps is often at odds with the need for workers to be able to access those SaaS and cloud-hosted apps fast and efficiently, as if they were deployed right in the branch office.
But here’s the problem: In doing so, they circumvent the layers of security traditionally deployed at the enterprise data center.
Citrix SD-WAN now provides robust, built-in security while helping to ensure WAN reliability and always-on connectivity. By carrying traffic over multiple transports, you get the highest bandwidth utilization with the most optimal app experience and the fastest failover during link brownouts or outages. You get advanced security at the WAN edge and the most choice for securing your network, especially when leveraging the direct breakout to cloud and SaaS.
You can start with our built-in ICSA certified stateful firewall and automatically connect to your choice of several cloud security platforms, including Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access or host NGFW VNFs like Palo Alto Networks VM-Series directly on the SD-WAN branch appliance.
But that’s not all. Citrix SD-WAN now offers holistic edge security — designed to protect the WAN edge — right on your SD-WAN branch appliance so you can leverage direct internet paths without any worries.
A Full Edge Security Stack to Protect Your Direct Internet Path
By consolidating networking and security on the same appliance, organizations get best-in-class application experience and reliability without compromising on security. With cloud-based, single-pane-of-glass management, the Citrix SD-WAN edge security stack is simple to deploy and manage, reducing the inevitable complexities stemming from deploying, configuring, and managing multiple products from multiple vendors.
Citrix SD-WAN Orchestrator helps your organization to manage both SD-WAN and the integrated edge security stack from a central location so your IT department can focus on app experience and performance without compromising on security. It doesn’t matter where your apps reside — in your data center or in the cloud — or whether you access them via the local internet path or by backhauling traffic over the WAN. You can now have a world-class app experience and an always-on network while addressing your security needs.
Get Edge Security with New Citrix SD-WAN Advanced Edition
Citrix SD-WAN Advanced Edition combines all the capabilities of Citrix SD-WAN with a fully-integrated edge security stack that enhances our built-in app firewall with intrusion prevention, web filtering, and virus protection capabilities.
Advanced Edition gives your organization the benefit of branch appliance consolidation, reduces the complexity of managing multiple solutions from different vendors, and is simple to manage with SD-WAN Orchestrator.
Advanced Edition integrates edge security features including signature-based IDS and IPS; web filtering; and malware protection for HTTP, FTP and SMTP that bring:
- More than 26,000 IDS/IPS signatures with automatic updates;
- Category based Web filter policies to block porn, gambling, videos, social networks, shopping sites or other undesirable or inappropriate content and applications from being accessed.
- Signature and heuristics-based malware protection against zero-day threats, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, botnets, unknown malware, and new infections.
Choose How You Protect Data and Apps
Flexibility and simplicity are key for IT professionals, and Citrix SD-WAN offers multiple options to choose from to secure your resources while providing a world-class app experience. With Citrix SD-WAN, you can choose the best security options for your organization:
- Integrated edge security stack (Advanced Edition) at the branch edge gives you the flexibility to tailor each site’s specific security requirements to stop threats before they propagate laterally to other branches or users;
- Automated connectivity to cloud security platforms such as Zscaler and Palo Alto Prisma Access gives IT departments the ability to configure the same security policies centrally for users at the branch, at home, or on the go.
- Citrix SD-WAN 1100 appliance with hosted security VNFs (Palo Alto Networks VM-Series) provide consolidation of network and security on a single branch appliance while maintaining separation of networking and security policies.
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