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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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