Integrated edge security features now available for Citrix SD-WAN!
We are excited to announce the general availability of Citrix SD-WAN Advanced Edition on select Citrix SD-WAN platforms. Citrix SD-WAN Advanced Edition unlocks integrated edge security capabilities such as IDS/IPS, web filtering, and malware protection to secure your branch against threats. You can now give branch users an unparalleled application experience when accessing internet and SaaS applications directly, without compromising on security. You can also block threats at the entry point to stop lateral propagation of threats across branches or within a branch.
The rise of SaaS apps, cloud platforms, and other cloud-based services is changing the way applications are delivered. With this paradigm shift, the traditional method of backhauling traffic to the data center where security functions reside adds latency and diminishes user experience.
Allowing users and devices at branch sites to directly access internet and SaaS apps enables organizations to not only reduce load on site-to-site links but also to improve the application experience. However, this leads to exposing the branch to all types of internet traffic and increasing the attack surface at the network edge putting your business at risk for ever more sophisticated attacks. The threats could also traverse laterally from one branch to another, compromising your corporate network.
Citrix SD-WAN Advanced Edition brings fully-integrated edge security to the WAN edge to counter these attacks and protect the network perimeter with IDS/IPS, web filtering, malware protection, and more. The edge security stack guards the entire connected enterprise against security attacks that could impact the business and could originate from the internet and the cloud. It also prevents lateral threat movement from one branch to another.
IDS/IPS
- 34,000+ signature detections for a variety of attacks
- New attack signatures automatically updated
- Automated signature updates to ensure protection against latest attacks
URL Filtering
- Categorizes the largest URL database of its kind across 79 categories, 750+ million domains, and 32+ billion URLs classified across 45+ languages. Additionally, 6 million dangerous IPs correlated with URLs.
- Reporting and event logs tell you how your network is being used (or abused).
Anti-Malware
- Protects against the full range of internet traffic: HTTP, FTP, and SMTP
- Decompresses and scans archives and compressed files protecting against complex archive bombs
- Detects infected clients that join your network and prevents them from calling home
- Powered by Bitdefender
The Citrix SD-WAN Advantage
- Superior connectivity and application performance: Zero-touch provisioned platforms that enable the use of multiple WAN circuit types including MPLS, broadband Internet and wireless 4G and LTE connections with the ability to detect over 4,500 SaaS, cloud, and virtual applications in real time (packet-based) and sub-second failover to ensure the highest network resiliency.
- Manage from a single pane of glass: You get simplified management for both edge security and SD-WAN through a single pane of glass with Citrix SD-WAN Orchestrator. This eliminates the hassles of dealing with multiple vendors, licenses, and management dashboards.
- Actionable Visibility: You gain insight into trends across the network to understand the security risks that require you to act. Drill down into granular site level reports to see top activities/categories per device or network in real time.
Citrix SD-WAN Advanced Edition enables you to combine advanced security functions with world-class networking capabilities to provide a high-quality user experience at your branch offices while reducing cost and complexity without compromising on security.
Secure your branch today! Learn how Citrix SD-WAN can help you secure your edge, and check out more details about the Advanced Edition from the Citrix SD-WAN datasheet.
