Key Trends Shaping the Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Observability Landscape

By William Jepma for Solutions Review
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

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The layered nature of modern security architectures further complicates performance issues. Each security service—from threat detection to data loss prevention (DLP) scanning—adds processing time. When these services are chained together, the cumulative effect can result in noticeable delays, timeout issues, and degraded application responsiveness. This is particularly pronounced for cloud applications that rely on frequent API calls or maintain persistent connections.

“To combat the snowballing risks of shadow IT in 2025, organizations should maintain and continually update a comprehensive inventory of all their systems, software, users, accounts, data, and third parties that have any access to corporate data. Solutions like Cyber Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) may greatly help with these tasks. Moreover, corporate users should all follow ongoing training to grasp the risks of shadow IT: even experienced software developers may carelessly deploy a container with production data in a cloud to experiment with some new features, eventually forgetting about it, let alone non-technical users with their home computers used for business or mobile devices.” Ilia Kolochenko, PhD., CEO at ImmuniWeb. Check out the Insight Jam Podcast to hear more from Dr. Kolochenko.

These challenges extend to capacity planning and scaling, too. Security services must process increasing traffic volumes as organizations adopt more cloud services. During sudden traffic spikes, security devices may become overwhelmed, leading to increased latency or, in some cases, failed connections. These situations can trap organizations in a corner, forcing them to choose between maintaining their security policies or ensuring acceptable application performance. Read Full Article