SDN solves a lot of network problems, but security isn’t one of them

As the digital enterprise struggles to find the best security solutions to defend their ever-expanding networks, many are looking to next generation tools that offer interoperability capabilities.

Software defined networking (SDN) holds lots of promises. By consolidating the control planes of multiple devices into a single controller, that controller becomes the omnipotent decision maker over the entire network.

That’s a lot of power, yet developers still don’t have security at the forefront of their minds when building SDN products, which is why there are weaknesses in SDN that can compromise enterprise security.

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