At this week’s VMworld shin dig in San Francisco, many networking and security vendors will crow about software-defined security and software use cases for SDN. Some of this rhetoric will be nothing more than industry hype while other banter may prove to be extremely useful in the near future.
Yes, there are many interesting ways that SDN could work to enhance network security. That said, which SDN/network security use cases are really compelling and which could be considered second-tier? ESG research asked this specific question to security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) as part of a recent ESG research report, Network Security Trends in the Era of Cloud and Mobile Computing. Here are the top 5 SDN use cases for network security:
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