Secure connectivity to SaaS and Cloud Services with Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN

1- Distributed Environments: With remote workforces and branch offices, maintaining secure connections to cloud services across dispersed locations can be complex.

2- Performance Issues: Legacy private circuits such as MPLS, that and backhaul traffic through on-premises data centers introduce latency and performance degradation, especially when accessing cloud applications.

3- Security Risks: Direct access to the internet increases exposure to cyber threats, including malware, data exfiltration, and zero-day exploits.

4- Complex Management: Managing diverse cloud service providers and SaaS apps can lead to fragmented security policies and inconsistent protection. 

1- Secure Application Awareness: Forcepoint can identify and classify thousands of applications in real-time, enabling organizations to create highly specific security policies that ensure only authorized users and applications access sensitive cloud resources.

2- Zero Trust Security: Combining Forcepoint Endpoint Context Agent (ECA) with Forcepoint VPN Client creates a true zero-trust network access control. The combination of ECA machine authentication, security posture check and the MFA in the VPN Client ensures that only compliant managed devices are authorized to connect to the specific internal resources.

3- Encrypted Traffic Inspection: With most of the internet traffic encrypted, it’s essential to have the ability to inspect this traffic for threats. Forcepoint has SSL/TLS inspection capabilities, allowing organizations to inspect encrypted traffic without compromising security or performance. This ensures that malicious payloads or attempts to bypass security controls within encrypted sessions are detected and blocked.

4- Automated Traffic Steering and Failover: Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN uses dynamic path steering to prioritize traffic based on application requirements, ensuring that latency-sensitive services such as video conferencing and VoIP are delivered without disruption. In case of network failure, Forcepoint dynamically reroutes traffic over alternative, secure paths, maintaining performance and ensuring high availability for cloud services.

5- Robust Security Capability: Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN not only delivers native security capabilities such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), but it can also be combined with our Advanced Malware Detection and Prevention (AMDP) Sandbox solution to safely detonate and analyze suspicious files. It also integrates with our Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) technology for Zero-Trust web access. With its broad security capabilities, Forcepoint mitigates various cyberattacks, including malware and zero-day threats 

• Improved Security Posture: Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN strengthens an organization’s overall security posture, including at remote and branch sites.
• Enhanced Performance: Prioritizing traffic based on application detection ensures optimal performance for business-critical applications, while failover capabilities help prevent network disruptions.
• Simplified Network Management: Centralized management of thousands of devices, along with zero-touch deployment, simplifies network operations, reducing complexity while maintaining a high level of control.
• Scalability: Easily scale operations with the Forcepoint Secure SD-WAN orchestrator, which manages full-mesh connectivity between thousands of gateways, enabling organizations to scale their operations across multiple locations.