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Four Questions For Life After MPLS

CATO Networks

Security – What do you need to secure the Internet access points at each of your offices? With security, for example, do you want to offload Internet traffic at the branch or backhaul traffic to the datacenter? But with Internet offload youll have another consideration — remote office network security.

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The Mobile Access Revolution: Visibility and Performance Remain a Challenge

CATO Networks

Thats because SD-WAN appliances were designed to replace routers, WAN optimizers and the rest of the networking stack needed for site-to-site connectivity not mobile connectivity. With SD-WAN appliances, mobile users are still left establishing VPNs back to on-premises firewalls (or concentrators).

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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. These drivers, though, also come with baggage: the reassessment of todays corporate security model. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities.

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What is Network Visibility?

CATO Networks

Traditionally, network visibility within the WAN has been made possible by SIEM (security information and event management) solutions and network management systems that aggregate packet flow data from multiple security and network monitoring tools such as security appliances, firewalls, and endpoint sensors.

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MPLS, VPN Internet Access, Cloud Networking or SD-WAN? Choose Wisely

CATO Networks

As adoption of cloud services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models grow, traditional MPLS network architectures become less effective. Cloud and SaaS traffic must be first brought from the branch to a secured Internet access point at central location.

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A New Approach to SD-WAN Management

CATO Networks

How will they secure all of the Internet access points created by SD-WAN? By expanding the attack surface, every office with DIA now requires the full range of security services including next-generation firewall (NGFW), IDS/IPS, sandboxing and more.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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