Managing and Securing the WAN is a Struggle for Companies

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In December, Versa sponsored an independent survey conducted by Dimensional Research  of 308 network professionals across five continents at organizations with 1,000-plus employees. The goal of the research was to capture how companies manage and secure their networks across branch locations. The research also investigated expected benefits and challenges of a software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). What the research revealed was that companies are struggling to manage and secure the WAN, especially at branch locations. Nearly all participants stated that maintaining security policies, network devices, and complexity due to cloud and mobile applications are the most difficult aspects of managing the WAN.

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