Remove Access Point Remove Network Security Remove Wide Area Network
article thumbnail

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.

WAN 52
article thumbnail

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.

Network 52
article thumbnail

How SD-WANs Can Become Next Generation WAN Architectures

CATO Networks

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently.

WAN 52