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SDN, Analytics, and

Security

R. Scott Raynovich

Chief Analyst and Publisher

The Rayno Report (www.raynoreport.com)

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SDN Recap: What’s Going On?

• SDN separates software control from hardware and

enables more interoperability

• Key applications include service provisioning, traffic

management, policy enforcement, analytics, and

security

• Moving from concept to deployment in 2015

• More than $700M invested in SDN startups so far.

$3B+ in exits.

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SDN Goal: Converge and Integrate

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Why Analytics?

• The power of an SDN platform is interoperability,

flexibility, programmability

• If the SDN infrastructure is interoperable, you can

monitor everything

• If you can monitor everything, you can analyze

everything

• If you can analyze anything, you can automate

things

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Example 1: Analytics and Traffic

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New York, 2011

NYC WiN system : Real-time traffic condition

with automated traffic-signal response

Raynoreport.comSource: World Economic Forum

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Back in the Network World…

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SDN Application: Hybrid WAN

Source: VeloCloud

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Example 2: SDN Analytics and

Security

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Data Breaches (2014-2015 Only!)

• eBay: 140 million records

• Anthem: 80 million records

• JP Morgan Chase: 76 million records

• Home Depot: 56 million records

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Time to Detect a Data Breach?

Source: Osterman Research, Data Breach Survey

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More Surprising Stuff

• 94% of organizations are not well prepared to

respond to a data breach

• For 76% of organizations, detecting a breach would

take “hours” or longer

• Only 33% of organizations have involved the

security team in the follow-up response

• Two-thirds of customers rely on manual responses

• Only one-quarter are using automated systems for

breach discovery and remediation

Source: Osterman Research, Data Breach Survey

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How to Fix?

Automation via SDN Security

Analytics

Raynoreport.comSource: Hoplite Industries

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Security Use Case

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Conclusions

• Major advantage of SDN is to measure, monitor,

and automate important functions

• If you can monitor and measure in realtime, you

can build automated solutions

• Analytics enables automation

• Security is a huge area in need of innovation in this

area.

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