While SD-WANs offer major performance and convenience advantages over the traditional WANs, these benefits come at the expense of centralised security from backhauling traffic through the organisation’s main data center. Vulnerabilities associated with an expanding branch network attack surface, increasing infrastructure complexity, and a rapidly evolving threat landscape call for secure networking, namely, deep integration between networking and security capabilities at a platform level. Effective SD-WAN also requires sophisticated management and orchestration capabilities for automatically selecting the best network paths based on contextual factors such as the specific application in use, business priorities, and security risks.