ESG research asked security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) as part of a recent network security research report. Here are the top 5 SDN use cases for network security: 28% want to use SDN to help them selectively block malicious traffic to endpoints while still allowing normal traffic flows. 28% of security professionals want SDN tied to malware detection appliances like those from Cisco, FireEye, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, or Trend Micro. 23% of those surveyed said SDN could be used to centralize network security service policy and configuration management.”]