Stephen Lynn

Thomas Harold Speeter

Manigandan Elumalai

Prakash Kasiviswanathan Parameshwar

Muthukrishnan Manoharan

Some embodiments of the invention provide, for a network manager of a secure SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area network), a method of securely adding an edge device, which operates at a branch location in a public network, to the SD-WAN. The method provides, to an activation service hosted on the public network, a record for the edge device that is to be added to the SD-WAN securely, the record for use by the activation service to authenticate the edge device. The method receives a first notification from the activation service indicating the edge device has been authenticated. The method receives a second notification from a verification service indicating the authenticated edge device has been verified. Based on the first and second notifications, the method provides to the activation service (i) a set of configuration data for the edge device and (ii) a set of authentication data for the edge device. The activation service provides the set of configuration data and the set of authentication data to the edge device to use to join the SD-WAN.

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