ESG looked into this question by surveying organizations already deploying SDN. 41% of organizations say that the networking team owns SDN infrastructure decisions with no input from any other functional IT groups including infosec. CISOs need to elbow their way into SDN research, testing, and planning in order to explore SDN network security opportunities and push their own agendas. Check Point, Fortinet, HP, IBM, McAfee, and Palo Alto Networks should plan on an offensive approach to SDN in 2015.”]