CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks.

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CATO Networks

JULY 20, 2021

Sidewalk is meant to be a low-bandwidth wireless network that can connect devices in hard-to-reach places. Sidewalks new encryption method Doing encryption right is not an easy task, especially when introducing new methods. And Alexa isnt the only consumer device or application lurking on your companys networks.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops. All policies are managed within Catos management application.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

Those stakeholders can include members of management, security analysts, network engineers, application owners, and even your external partners (MSPs, VoIP, ISPs, etc.). This data, combined with application and user awareness information, will offer a detailed view of your environment.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This blog post goes over: The complexities that users will run into when self-managing Apache Kafka on the cloud and how users can benefit from building event streaming applications with a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Key characteristics of a fully managed service that you can trust for production and mission-critical applications.

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

SD-WAN also promises to reduce the management complexity of this hybrid WAN, which naturally increases with the need to mix and match connection types, and dynamically allocate application traffic. MPLS isnt encrypted by default: MPLS relies on the carrier private network for security because the data doesnt flow on the public Internet.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal. While at home you might spend $50 for a 50 Mbps Internet link, MPLS services can cost 10 times more for a fraction of the bandwidth. Latency – How will your applications be impacted by the increased latency and loss incurred on the Internet?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. This had two ramifications: many enterprises did not encrypt their MPLS connections or inspected MPLS traffic for threats. Why is security such a big deal with SD-WAN?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

With information locked behind application silos, operational improvements, such as automation, becomes increasingly complex. The team should include line-of-business members, application team leads, as well as networking, security and mobility representatives. Each service comes with its own cost structure and capabilities.

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Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 8, 2023

In this implementation, the privacy of the user’s data is well protected because the user’s password is one-way hashed and encrypted by the user’s one-time secret key, revealing no information to the service. The index now enables the server to return a smaller subset of the dataset in response to the blinded hash values.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

The cloud has become an inseparable part of the IT enterprise as more applications make the transition to the cloud. Hungry for Bandwidth In addition to cost savings, one of the initial problems with WAN infrastructure that IT leaders were looking to solve was last mile bandwidth and availability.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

No surprise, I suppose, as MPLS costs can be more than 5x the cost of Internet bandwidth. With such high disparity in bandwidth costs, backhauling Internet traffic makes little sense. This is particularly important as business applications move to the cloud (e.g. There is no protection against malware or APTs.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By facilitating critical applications through reliable, high performance connections, IT teams can help reduce packet loss and latency issues, thus improving employee productivity, and boosting staff spirits. Bottom line - MPLS bandwidth is expensive. LOWERS COMPLEXITY. REDUCES COSTS.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Encrypt Data, Not Just the Tunnel Most remote access solutions create an encrypted point-to-point tunnel to carry the communications payload. The data payload itself must also be encrypted for strong security. While the tunnel itself is encrypted, the traffic traveling within that tunnel typically is not.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Its impractical to centralize a network around an on-premise datacenter when data and applications increasingly are in the cloud and users are wherever they need to beon the road, at home, at a customer site, in a branch office. SASE moves security out of the legacy datacenter and closer to where users, data and applications reside today.

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Rule 11

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Do you want to analyse decrypted TLS traffic in Wireshark or let an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), like Suricata, Snort or Zeek, inspect the application layer data of potentially malicious TLS encrypted traffic? Which protocols are used? As I suspected, its a bit more complex than just seeing a single known protocol like HTTPS.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. ” Many businesses today are expanding globally, relying on data and applications in the cloud, and are driven by an increasingly mobile workforce.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network elements, including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global, encrypted and optimized SD-WAN in the cloud. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a set of security services to protect all traffic at all times.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. With vendors like Amazon AWS and applications like Office 365, the cloud computing market is projected to reach $411B by 2020. Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

Pulling traffic back to some site for security inspection and enforcement adds latency , killing the application experience. Encrypted tunnels across these last-mile transport carry traffic to nearest PoP. Advanced TCP congestion control enables Cato edges to send and receive more data, as well as better utilize available bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

SD-WAN Cost Savings Early marketing around SD-WAN technology pointed to the 90 percent cost difference between MPLS and Internet bandwidth costs. In other cases, SD-WAN, over the open Internet, lack the consistent loss and jitter characteristics needed to run high-quality, enterprise voice and other loss- and latency-sensitive applications.

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Heroku

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Extensions Check for any Postgres extensions installed on your current database which are critical to your applications. Identify dependencies Create a detailed catalog of the integrations, applications, and services that rely on your database. Ensure the backup is encrypted, and store it securely. 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-6),

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

With SD-WAN, organizations can deliver more responsive, more predictable applications at lower cost in less time than the managed MPLS services traditionally used by the enterprise. SD-WAN does this by separating applications from the underlying network services with a policy-based, virtual overlay. The world of SD-WANs is evolving.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Performance is a key driver behind the movement, with 5G enabling: Greater throughput -- mobile broadband with bandwidth ranging from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. In these cases, remote enterprise sites may not need the highest bandwidth but require a deterministic quality of service. Lower latency -- ultra-low latency down to 1 millisecond.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

Cloud datacenters are connected via an agentless configuration, and cloud applications are connected through our cloud-optimized routing. Enterprises manage and monitor networking, security, and access through a single application. Cato provides centralized administration via our management application. Whose cloud is it anyway?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Moreover, traditional VPNs can introduce latency and bandwidth constraints, impacting application performance and user experience: Complexity : VPNs can be complex to manage, especially for large organizations with multiple locations and diverse user populations.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Often, VPNs makes sense at a small scale or for one-off applications. Site-to-site VPNs enable enterprises to securely connect physical locations over the public Internet by creating an encrypted connection between two on-premises appliances. Enterprises can enforce policies down to the application and user level.

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Vedcraft

JUNE 9, 2023

The service mesh acts as a dedicated layer that handles communication-related tasks, such as encryption, authentication, load balancing, and monitoring. the sidecar pattern is a design pattern where an additional container, called a sidecar container, is attached to the main container of an application. What is a Service Mesh?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Enterprises can choose how to securely connect remote and mobile users to their enterprise resources and applications. Cato Client is a lightweight application that can be set up on a users device in minutes. Catos clientless access solution allows optimized and secure access to select applications through a browser.

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Akins IT

JUNE 29, 2022

And, others had to figure out alternative ways that posed challenges like security and increased IT infrastructure bandwidth to accommodate the increased remote work. In late 2019, the city began virtualizing Microsoft 365 and other software as a service (SaaS) applications with Azure Virtual Desktop.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

With this technology, an organizations sites are connected to a single, logical, global firewall with a unified application-aware security policy. This elastic capacity allows for the rapid deployment of additional sites and changes in bandwidth requirements.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the most granular, enterprises may strive to achieve visibility down to the packet, user, and application level. Additionally, network visibility can improve network analytics and application profiling. Similarly, capturing application-level visibility on traffic to and from cloud datacenters becomes a major challenge.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Behavioral analysis monitors the actions of user accounts, applications, and devices for risky or malicious behaviors that pose a threat to a system. This is especially true if TLS decryption is required for inspection of encrypted traffic as this can exhaust an appliances compute capacity.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication. SASE converges ZTNA, NextGen firewall (NGFW), and other security services along with network services such as SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and bandwidth aggregation into a cloud-native platform.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

That, I suppose, is not a good sign for some of the telcos trying to add value within their particular environments, but its certainly of benefit to the enterprise customers who are just looking to pick up some bandwidth here and there. DG: Should a customer care about which SD-WAN platform a provider is delivering?

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Kentik

APRIL 18, 2016

Also, to cut down on CPU and network bandwidth, flows are usually only “exported” on average every 10 seconds to a few minutes. Also NetFlow can run over SCTP, which is encrypted, but that capability is not well supported by many exporting devices. That gives us an encrypted and efficient way to feed augmented flow data to our cloud.

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