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Quality of Service: A Next Generation Firewall Must-Have Feature

Akins IT

NEXT GENERATION FIREWALL MUST-HAVE FEATURES PART 1: QUALITY OF SERVICE In todays digital age, security has become tantamount to success in ensuring business continuity. Most NG firewalls have the ability to detect application sets or static rules that apply priorities to specific types of network traffic.

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10 Reasons To Choose Firewall as a Service For Your Enterprise

CATO Networks

The rise of mobile devices, combined with the shift to cloud based platforms, means that many networks no longer have a clear perimeter, where all applications and users could be jointly protected against cyber-attacks. Essentially all traffic is pull back to an on-premise firewall and from there put out onto the Internet. The result?

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Firewall as a Service and your biggest network security challenge

CATO Networks

We recently held a webinar focused on educating network professionals about Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). The Challenge of Appliance-Based Network Security Network security was simpler in the past: there was a clear perimeter (or perimeters for multi-site companies) with networks, users, and applications firmly inside organizations.

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What is Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) and Why You Need It

CATO Networks

Since the beginning of networks, the lynchpin of network security has been the firewall. The first network firewalls appeared in the late 1980s, and gained almost universal acceptance by the early 1990s. So what is a Firewall as a Service and why do you need it? FWaaS is a new type of a Next Generation Firewall.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth. We still need to connect our infrastructure to the public internet, so the enterprise WAN is still about routers, circuit IDs, and perimeter firewalls.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

By collecting and analyzing network telemetry, including traffic flows, bandwidth usage, packet loss rates, and error rates, NetOps leverage monitoring to detect and diagnose potential bottlenecks, security threats, and other issues that can impact network reliability, often before end users even notice a problem.

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Cato SASE Cloud: Enjoy Simplified Configuration and Centralized, Global Policy Delivery

CATO Networks

In this article, we will discuss some of the various policy objects that exist within the Cato Management Application and how they are used. Understanding Catos Management Application from Its Architecture To understand policy design within the Cato Management application, its useful to discuss some of Catos architecture.

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