Wide area networks have become incredibly complicated, with workers today using a wide variety of internet-based applications and services from a growing list of locations.

In almost all instances, the line-of-sight visibility that once defined corporate network management has been replaced by a complex web of applications and connections.

For network managers, these complex architectures present equally complicated management challenges thanks to the need to balance the security of data and endpoints against applications’ performance and the experiences of the workers using them.