The enterprise technology landscape is undergoing profound change. Organizations across Latin America are rapidly advancing digital transformation, embracing cloud, AI-powered applications, and distributed operations. These shifts create both opportunity and risk: opportunity to deliver higher-value, secure services, and risk if providers cannot demonstrate that their offerings are reliable, secure, and compliant with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
This is why cybersecurity and SD-WAN certification is becoming a business imperative.
Why Certification Matters
Enterprises in the region are prioritizing cybersecurity and SD-WAN as core enablers of their digital strategies. Yet adoption often slows when providers cannot demonstrate consistent enforcement of security policies, verified performance of SD-WAN solutions, or alignment with industry standards.
Certification solves this challenge. By validating that technologies from cybersecurity platforms to SD-WAN meet rigorous, independently tested benchmarks, providers gain a clear way to prove quality. For enterprises, independent validation accelerates procurement and builds confidence that the solutions deployed will perform as expected. For providers, certification reduces friction in the sales cycle, shortens time-to-market, and strengthens customer trust.
The Mplify Approach
Mplify, formerly MEF, has established the industry’s first standards-based cybersecurity and SD-WAN certification programs. These programs are designed to ensure that core technologies deliver measurable, repeatable outcomes. Testing is conducted against real-world threat scenarios and performance conditions, making certification results a trusted signal of service quality.
Mplify offers a range of service and technology certification programs for subscriber and operator Carrier Ethernet and a full SASE certification program which integrates SD-WAN, Security Service Edge (SSE), and Zero Trust (ZT). This expanded portfolio enables providers across Latin America to validate not only advanced connectivity, but also end-to-end secure networking capabilities demanded by enterprises.
By embracing certification, providers can meet rising enterprise expectations for transparency and trust. Unlike traditional assurance methods, certification independently validates conformance, performance, and security of solutions. This gives buyers the confidence that technologies are not just functional but proven against industry standards.
Business Benefits
Certification is a powerful lever for growth across Latin America. It helps service and technology providers compete more effectively and capture new revenue by proving their commitment to transparency.
- Operational efficiency: Providers avoid costly, time-consuming in-network testing by leveraging certified technologies.
- Procurement readiness: Certification streamlines RFI/RFP processes, enabling faster contract wins in regulated and security-sensitive industries.
- Differentiation: Independent validation provides a competitive edge in crowded markets where trust and transparency matter most.
- Revenue acceleration: Certified cybersecurity and SD-WAN solutions give enterprises the confidence to adopt new services at scale.
Positioning for the AI-Powered Economy
As AI becomes central to enterprise operations, networks face new demands for real-time threat response, automation, and low-latency performance. By embracing certification, organizations can strengthen their role as enablers of secure digital transformation. Certified cybersecurity and SD-WAN solutions not only mitigate risk they provide competitive advantage, accelerate time-to-market, and shape the future of secure, scalable, and profitable network services.
Join us at Mplify’s Global NaaS Event (GNE) this November 10-14, where enterprise, technology, and service provider leaders will join forces to establish certification as the industry standard. As AI-driven threats accelerate and hybrid networks expand, enterprises need cybersecurity and SD-WAN solutions that are consistent, interoperable, and future-ready.
