How does SD-WAN protect network traffic from end-to-end'?

Management refers to administrative control of the SD-WAN fabric and is not itself a mechanism for protecting traffic end-to-end.

Analyzation describes traffic inspection or monitoring, which is a detection capability rather than an end-to-end traffic protection method.

SD-WAN uses network segmentation to create logically isolated traffic paths across the WAN, ensuring that different types of traffic (e.g., voice, data, guest) are kept separate end-to-end. This prevents lateral movement of threats across segments and allows granular security policy enforcement at each segment boundary.

Automation in SD-WAN refers to policy-driven configuration and provisioning, not the mechanism by which traffic is protected between endpoints.