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Troye is offering an innovative security
solution for the modern data centre by
combining the benefits of Citrix SD-WAN
and Zscaler Cloud Security.
The company has launched a holistic
solution combining both world-class
solutions to provide cost effective and
highly available WAN, securing branch
Internet traffic, enabling compliance with
corporate content and access policies.
Complete with Internet user activity
monitoring, the bandwidth control
feature protects key applications
and limits recreational applications
by location or time of day which
is managed globally from a single
management console. With the Zscaler
security solution being cloud-based,
users no longer need to add additional
security appliances to the network.
KURT GOODALL, TROYE
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Troye Technical Director Kurt Goodall
says the ideal solution to enforce security
without adding cost, complexity or latency
is to route all branch Internet traffic from
the Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN appliance to
the Zscaler Cloud Security Platform.
The Zscaler Cloud Security Platform acts
as a series of security check posts in
more than 100 data centres around the
world. By simply redirecting Internet traffic
to Zscaler, users can instantly secure
stores, branches and remote locations.
“Zscaler connects users and the
Internet, inspecting every byte of traffic,
even if it is encrypted or compressed,”
he said. “But customers still grapple with
expensive Multiprotocol Label Switching
(MPLS) links to backhaul branch traffic
to the corporate data centre in order to
filter traffic through security appliances,
to detect malware and enforce policies.”
Kurt Goodall, Troye Technical Director
www.intelligentciso.com
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An alternative to backhauling is to add
security appliances at the branch.
However, the cost and complexity
increase as users install multiple
appliances to maintain consistent
policies across the sites. With a
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large number of branch offices, cost
management becomes impractical.
“Such backhauling over private MPLS
links is expensive, results in significant
latency and creates poor user experience
at the branch site. Thus the demand for
direct Internet breakout capabilities has
become prevalent,” he explains.
The NetScaler SD-WAN device simply
forwards the Internet and cloud
application traffic to the Zscaler Cloud
Security Platform. The combined solution
gives IT teams peace of mind knowing
that they are protecting data, applications
and users in remote and branch offices.
And it gives them the tools they need to
prioritise business-related Internet traffic
over recreational traffic.
Citrix’s NetScaler SD-WAN enables
a scalable, reliable and cloud-ready
software defined WAN with packet-level,
real-time path selection, firewalling,
routing and application analytics whether
accessing SaaS applications, virtualised
The demand for
direct Internet
breakout capabilities
has become
prevalent.
desktops or traditional data centres.
It ensures an always-on, high-quality
experience and a simpler, more agile
branch network.
As the need for bandwidth increases
in branch offices, enterprises have
had tough choices, with each
option presenting trade-offs in
performance, cost and security. SD-
WAN is simplifying the choice, with
significant cost savings and the kind of
performance users will appreciate.
“Zscaler puts the enterprise security
stack in the cloud, arming each branch
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