CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It could change your entire approach to network security, and help save your sanity. Gone are the days when it was simple and effective to connect remote sites with a perimeter firewall, or backhaul traffic to a datacenter to keep companies secure and functional. Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 22, 2017

Per user bandwidth consumption has likely grown significantly since your organization adopted an MPLS-based WAN. Cloud services are as popular among users, if not more popular, than the corporate applications in the MPLS-connected, datacenters. Security threats have skyrocketed and so have the number of security appliances.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

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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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. So much depends on how you answer certain questions about your business, the resources available, and your networking requirements.

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Marvis Application Experience Insights proactively predicts call quality for Zoom and Microsoft Teams, identifying potential issues before a user joins a call. This suite of cloud-based applications enhances visibility and AI-Native insights for better application experiences and impact analysis.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In today’s digital age, where work from anywhere and hybrid cloud adoption are the norm, traditional network security perimeters have crumbled. IT organizations are using hybrid cloud strategies to combine the scalable, cost-effective public cloud with the secure, compliant private cloud.

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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

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. 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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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. SD-WANs Arent Enough Leveraging Direct Internet Access (DIA) allows SD-WANs to improve agility and reduce bandwidth costs, but fails to address, and sometimes exacerbates, other critical challenges. And wed like our networks to be inherently secure.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently. With information locked behind application silos, operational improvements, such as automation, becomes increasingly complex. The goal: to understand the full impact a proposed networking architecture will have on all IT disciplines.

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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. Cato has also built a full network security stack directly into its global network.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2018

Recent trends in enterprise networking have created a challenge for network security engineers. 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.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Last month, the service was shortlisted for Layer123s Network Transformation Awards 2017 as the Best SD-WAN Service. Previous recognition included Gartner Cool Vendor 2017 , a finalist as a RSA Innovation Sandbox 2017 , and CRN for 25 Coolest network Security Vendors.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

The Pros of WAN Optimization WAN optimization addresses MPLS limitations by tackling the three primary networking issues impacting the user experience when accessing data from across the WAN: bandwidth, latency, and packet loss. Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 21, 2019

Cloud-managed or cloud-hosted SD-WAN services host their management and control application in the cloud. Moving to SDWaaS can significantly reduce WAN bandwidth costs for organizations looking to optimize their spending. Businesses looking for improved agility to scale bandwidth and bring new sites online can benefit from SDWaaS.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business critical applications Important question to ask: where are your business critical applications located — in an in-house data center or in the cloud? Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ. In recent years, we see cloud migration on a large scale.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2023

This shift impacts the use of MPLS , with the internet is being leveraged more often to boost overall bandwidth. However, security remains a top concern, with 34.5% of surveyed enterprises viewing security as the biggest challenge for using the internet as their primary WAN connectivity. Perhaps this is why 72.5%

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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. This typically works in scenarios where MPLS is not available or not affordable, or the vast majority of applications are not latency sensitive.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Global connectivity considerations When delivering applications across long distances, latency and packet loss not bandwidth will determine application performance. Data and application security also are critically important. Cloud networks revolutionize global connectivity.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Since its premier over a decade ago, SD-WAN was adopted by enterprises as the go-to-technology for preparing their network for the digital transformation. At the time this made sense, as SD-WAN brought important advantages: Optimized bandwidth costs, by leveraging inexpensive services like Internet broadband whenever possible.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

The network of old needs to change to accommodate the phenomenal growth of cloud and mobility. 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.

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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. And yet, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa , “When businesses decide to move to the cloud, the network tends to be an afterthought.”

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

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. IT staff also no longer need be concerned about capacity planning when upgrading security appliances.

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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. As traffic volumes increase, the additional work required to identify novel threats can put strain on an organizations network security architecture.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2024

The concept of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) promised a revolution in network security. Its core intent: to simplify the deployment and consumption of both networking and security functions. This platform needs to be cloud-native to handle the ever-increasing demands of bandwidth and innovation.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Withenterprisesmigrating to the cloud andadoptinga work-from-anywhere model,BCPtoday must also include continual access to cloud applications and support for remote users. Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) wasnt built with cloud services and remote users in mind.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2020

IT now need to connect the new European branches to the companys applications in the US with guaranteed performance and availability, and without compromising on security. There is an alternative approach to such scenarios, and it is called a Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE in short.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical. An overwhelming 78 percent said they use at least one cloud application such as Office 365.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2022

This is not only in terms of available connectivity, bandwidth, and processing power but also in terms of the networking and security landscape as well. For every technological advancement in consumer and business productivity, IT systems, operations and security must also try and keep pace. How does this happen?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The bandwidth is expensive (relative to Internet capacity) and often limited or unavailable on some routes, forcing companies to either pay exorbitant fees to connect locations or, more likely, resort to Internet-based VPNs, complicating network design. With SD-WAN, companies avoid consuming expensive MPLS capacity on Internet traffic.

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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. More connection density -- 1 million connected mobile devices in less than half of a square mile as compared to around 2K with 4G cellular networks.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This phenomenon is highly applicable to many IT transformations such as cloud migration and move to hybrid work, but even more so to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). Business Agility Traditional networks, built on legacy technologies like MPLS, are rigid and slow to adapt to changing business needs.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Youve been told to cut costs Its no secret that MPLS circuits cost a fortune often 3-4x the price of MPLS alternatives (like SD-WAN,) for only a fraction of the bandwidth. Multiplied by hundreds or thousands of simultaneous users and you choke your network, creating performance problems which IT is tasked to solve.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2022

Survey Reveals Confusion about the Promise of SASE Prioritizing between network security and network performance is hardly a strategy. Yet, Catos recent industry survey with non-Cato customers, Security or Performance: How do you Prioritize? Yet even here, SASE and non-SASE users experience the same problems.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To surface and help address these challenges, we interviewed some of our customers who have migrated their workloads from on-premises to the public cloud, as well as those who deployed greenfield cloud-native applications. That’s the only way operators will feel comfortable moving critical applications into a cloud environment.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Predictability : Static routes do not rely on changing network conditions and external factors but provide consistent routing paths. This predictability is beneficial for applications requiring reliable connectivity. Simplicity : Static routing manages dynamic routing protocols, especially for smaller or less complex networks.

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