It’s becoming clear that rising network security threats will drive increasing integration between network virtualization (NV) and security, as we’ve long predicted here. This means that software-defined networking (SDN) will become a key technology for securing the cloud.
SDN can significantly improve cloud network security using virtualization techniques. The opportunities for improvement come from:
- Centralizing network security service policy and configuration management
- Automating network security remediation
- Blocking malicious traffic from endpoints
- Simultaneously allowing for expected normal traffic
- Network policy auditing and detection and resolution of conflicts
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