Secure Your Enterprise SD-WAN With SpartanTec, Inc. Solutions

 

Traditional routers can no longer match the pace if today’s cloud era. The secure enterprise SD-WAN of SpartanTec, Inc. will unity the connectivity across multicloud infrastructure, branch, and data center.

Expand the connectivity options: Boost WAN capacity with affordable LTE and Internet Broadband to replace or augment Multiprotocol Label Switching.

SD-WAN is considered a transportagnostic overlay that is able to route all kinds of traffic and that includes MPLS. The benefit of SD-WAN Wilmington NC is that a company WAN traffic architect will just sit at the main center and apply all of the policies across all of the WAN devices simply and easily.

Improve operational agility: your enterprise will use a centralized management system that’s policy based to streamline your network operations and push strategic value.

Streamline the branch infrastructure: Change traditional branch routers with a different platform that will combine security, WAN optimization, SD-WAN, and routing.

Boost site provisioning: Cut costs on branch onboarding through zero-touch provisioning.

 

 

SD-WAN Edge Infrastructure

Deploy secure, fast, and agile WAN edge infrastructure a brand that features top of the line routing, network visibility, application acceleration, as well as IT services.

Router Replacement

Update traditional routers with a nextgen platform that mixes advanced SD-WAN services with enterprise class routing, allow you to transition sites seamlessly from old to new.

Hybrid WAN

Unify the management of several WAN circuits in remote sites using SD-WAN that will dynamically steer traffic across the LTE, Internet Broadband, and MPLS according to target SLAs as well as real time network conditions.

SD-WAN Security

Strengthen remote sites with quality security services as well as extensible service chaining. Protect your threat perimeter with secure VPNs, nextgen intrusion prevention services, next gen firewall, malware protection, as well as a unified threat management.

Internet Only Wan

Control branch connectivity costs with Internet-only WANs. You should also maintain reliability and quality using dynamic link conditioning, fast failover, and link bonding according to policy based SLAs and real time monitoring.

Analytics and Visibility

Get historical analysis and real time visibility of SD-WAN activity as well as app performance. Extend the visibility into underlay network using Riverbed NPM for the unified insights and analytics.

Call SpartanTec, Inc. now for more information about SD-WAN.

SpartanTec, Inc.
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
(843) 420-9760
https://www.spartantec.com/

SpartanTec, Inc.
Wilmington, NC 28412
(910) 218-9255
http://manageditserviceswilmington.com

Serving: Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Wilmington, Fayetteville, Florence

How To Find The Best SD-WAN Service Provider

 SD-WAN offers a lot of benefits to businesses such as lower costs, security, agility, and stronger performance. But, before you could enjoy this, you have to get pass the confusion involved when choosing the right service.

There are several options when it comes to SD-WAN technology. The growing demand from companies have led to several new vendors joining the industry.

Criteria When Choosing SD-WAN Providers

Accessibility

Cloud adoption rose by 15% back in 2018 and reached record highs. It also showed no signs of slowing down. An average company uses a lot of unique cloud services for apps, platforms, and services. Enterprises are embracing managed SD-WAN in order to optimize the performance of several cloud and physical environments.

 

 

The best providers of SD-WAN Wilmington NC do not just assist their clients in the deployment of cloud based tools that can be used for networking. The most suitable vendor will help their clients build better networking and WANs strategies in the cloud and on-premises. Reliable SD-WAN providers will help their clients reach long term organization of components like extensibility and network security.

Total Cost of Ownership

Most SD-WAN solutions offer instant ROI. Businesses might notice immediate resource savings that are based on simpler administration tasks as well as better workload performance. Compared to other options like SD-WAN or WAN solutions are more likely to provide hard and soft cost savings through several factors such as increased agility, fewer data bottlenecks, improved network visibility, as well as lighter IT support workloads.

Evaluate how a specific solution will offer cost savings across these components such as savings on firewalls and other security safeguards, IT time savings on management, updates, configuration, and provisioning, monthly subscription costs, as well as estimated network savings.

Ease Deployment

Although provider processes differ, an in-depth SD-WAN solution will be built according to a comprehensive analysis of your requirements. The SD-WAN service provider must offer a well-defined on-boarding process for customers to design the right sized deployments based on the budget, anticipated WAN usage, workload patterns, premises as well as cloud apps, and services, number of users, and quantity of the remote sites.

Ease of Management

Although a centralized and intuitive administration portal is a feature that defines SD-WAN technologies, you do not have a guarantee that you’ll get ease of management. You may be able to get access to a user friendly graphical user interface, however, the incorrect solution will not make it easier and simpler to optimize the network performance.

Pricing

The pricing structure for SD-WAN services vary between providers. Make sure to find a solution that fits your budget. However, you should also consider the pricing model of the provider and if it makes sense. Leading service providers will most likely cost more than those that offer limited support and features. Find out how providers can meet your set budget and objectives according to potential value provided through engineering expertise, enhanced support, and 24/7 monitoring.

 

Call SpartanTec, Inc. now to learn more about our SD-WAN solutions and other managed IT services.

 

SpartanTec, Inc.
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
(843) 420-9760
https://www.spartantec.com/

SpartanTec, Inc.
Wilmington, NC 28412
(910) 218-9255
http://manageditserviceswilmington.com

Serving: Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Wilmington, Fayetteville, Florence

Robust Secure SD-WAN

With the escalating adoption of bandwidth-hungry SaaS applications, VPs of networking are having to rethink their wide area networking (WAN) strategies. Instead of accommodating increasing and variable demand with costly, inflexible WAN connections, more network leaders are looking to implement a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). SD-WAN is attractive not only because it provides more efficient and cost-effective bandwidth allocation, but also because it improves WAN performance, agility, and operational flexibility. As network leaders assess their SD-WAN options, however, what is often missing from their deliberations is how to adequately address security risks. SD-WAN vendors are increasingly embedding security features into their offerings, but these tend to be basic, Layer 3 network controls and not the robust security functions that these environments require. Considering the current cyber-threat environment, should security embedded in an SD-WAN-enabled appliance be relegated to perfunctory specs, subjugated to SD-WAN’s greater mission of pushing packets through pipes as seamlessly as possible? Because that is exactly the problem with most of today’s SD-WAN-plus-security offerings.  

 

 

Why Divide and Conquer Isn’t the Answer

Embedded security may seem like a moot point for many enterprises in which security and networking are handled by different functions in the organization. The networking team deploys an SD-WAN solution, and the security team is responsible for deploying a next-generation firewall (NGFW) as a gatekeeper for the SD-WAN-enabled appliance. But if implementing SD-WAN involves two teams, managing two types of products, using separate management consoles, the TCO of the solution may become more than what the CIO bargained for. What’s more, lack of integration between SD-WAN and NGFW products also heightens risk due to potential gaps between the disparate technologies that cybercriminals are highly motivated to exploit. Finally, and perhaps more importantly for some, network performance bottlenecks are almost guaranteed to ensue. For example, increasing SSL-encrypted enterprise traffic, which now comprises over 50% of all network traffic, must be thoroughly checked for hidden malware, a CPU-intensive process that result in significant overhead for many traditional NGFW solutions

 

Will the Real Integrated SD-WAN/NGFW Solution Please Stand Up?

In an attempt to address this challenge, a number of vendors have begun to offer advanced firewall features embedded into their SD-WAN Wilmington NC appliances. It sounds promising, until you realize they’re not really integrated: You must still manage separate security and networking domains, which hampers IT visibility and control. So, what’s left? As is often the case, the answer is revealed through a change in perspective: Rather than trying to find an SD-WAN solution with security features, you might be better served by seeking to create a secure environment for implementing SD-WAN. One of the best ways of doing so, that is available today, is an SD-WAN-enabled next-generation firewall. For enterprises with high security requirements, an NGFW is essential to provide Layer 3 through Layer 7 protection. But what about SD-WAN functionality? Lest “SD-WAN-enabled NGFW” become a euphemism for SD-WAN compromise, candidate NGFWs claiming to provide SD-WAN functions should be assessed for several key capabilities:

 

• Application and Path Awareness. As an SD-WAN-enabled appliance, the NGFW must have path awareness intelligence, automatically routing packets from each application according to application-level SLAs, prioritizing them by criticality, time of the day, and so on. It should also be application aware, enabling network admins to monitor the changing traffic patterns of the applications traversing the WAN so they can modify policies accordingly.
• Integrated Security and Compliance. This secure environment should not only include key security features, such as high-throughput IPsec VPN and SSL inspection, but also compliance tracking and reporting. With applications dispersing packets across multiple WAN pathways in an SD-WAN, you don’t want to spend hours retracing the routes of suspect packets by toggling between multiple apps.
• Automation. Advanced NGFW hardware design is key to ensuring that firewall functions do not compromise WAN path routing. Otherwise, the performance gains promised by SD-WAN may be negated by security-based latencies.
• Multi-Broadband Support. Rather than relying on erratic 4G/3G network as the only failover for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) lines, the firewall should also be able to leverage the public internet in order to maximize WAN availability.
• TCO-Reducing Features. Consolidated management almost goes without saying. It doesn’t pay to use an integrated solution if it needs to be managed through two different consoles. And furthermore, an SD-WAN-enabled firewall that offers zero-touch deployment will also relieve much of the burden associated with SD-WAN implementation.

Who Maintains It—Networking or Security?

That’s up to you. A fully integrated secure SD-WAN solution should integrate both networking and security functions for simplified management through a single pane of glass. This not only reduces finger pointing and wasted time, but also increases your flexibility in allocating FTE resources. A secure SD-WAN can help you lower TCO all around, and it’s a straightforward path to creating one that meets the needs of both your networking and security teams, if you know what to look for. Download “Research from Gartner: Four Architectures to Secure SD-WAN” for more details on this pioneering approach. The release of the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solutions portfolio earlier this year is enabling organizations around the world to securely realize the full benefits of what promises to be a global game-changing technology. 

Call SpartanTec, Inc. now and learn more about SD-WAN.

SpartanTec, Inc.
Wilmington, NC 28412
(910) 218-9255
http://manageditserviceswilmington.com

Serving: Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Wilmington, Fayetteville, Florence