CATO Networks

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The new Cato Management Application that we announced today certainly brings a scalable, powerful interface. We enhanced security reporting with an all-new threats dashboard and opened up application performance with another new dashboard. Behind the Cato Management Application is a completely rearchitected backend.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 14, 2021

The way to shrink it back to a manageable size is with effective network security solutions, which in their own right require an evolution from legacy security appliances to a secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. The legacy hub-and-spoke architecture is pure kryptonite to cloud application performance.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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. Security between locations, though, was not an issue provided the WAN was based, as most were, on a private MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Networks drove the introduction of the firewall. Applications spawned multiple security disciplines from two-factor authentication to secure app development, vulnerability scanning and web application firewalls. Cloud-based single sign-on extended traditional enterprise single-sign on to public Cloud applications.

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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. Network security is built into the Cato Cloud.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Previous recognition included Gartner Cool Vendor 2017 , a finalist as a RSA Innovation Sandbox 2017 , and CRN for 25 Coolest network Security Vendors. 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 23, 2024

On May 6 th , 2024, researchers from the Leviathan Security Group published an article detailing a technique to bypass most VPN applications, assigned as CVE-2024-3661 with a High CVSS score of 7.6. Cato Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of its ZTNA using this technique.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SASEs built-in SD-WAN functionality offers network optimization, while the integrated security stack including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more secures traffic over the corporate WAN. SSL Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a predecessor to TLS.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

In their August 2019 report The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, they wrote: This market converges network (for example, software-defined WAN [SD-WAN]) and network security services (such as SWG, CASB and firewall as a service [FWaaS]). Secure access services need to be everywhere.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

The questions break down into four areas: Availability – What level of network availability does your business require? Latency – How will your applications be impacted by the increased latency and loss incurred on the Internet? Security – What do you need to secure the Internet access points at each of your offices?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

With a VPN, all communication between the user and the VPN is encrypted. The encryption process takes time, and depending on the type of encryption used, this may add noticeable latency to Internet communications. This granular-level security is part of the identity-driven approach to network access that SASE demands.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

Bandwidth: Bandwidth limitations are addressed by minimizing the amount of data passed across the network. To ensure applications dont hog the capacity of a connection, WAN optimization appliances will also prioritize application traffic. Typically this is done through compression and deduplication algorithms.

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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. Security is still a considerable concern when VPNs are used. This is good, but not good enough.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2017

This webinar will look at a range of issues including: Where SD-WAN can truly help network performance How to best use insertion and service chaining The security issues for any SD-WAN even with traffic being encrypted To sign up now, click here.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

When considering deployment options, think beyond branch offices and remember your network consists for other entities. Check that the SD-WAN can also connect cloud datacenters, cloud applications, and mobile users. Security Encryption and segmentation are basic, must-have security features for any SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. For decades, networking and security evolved as silos, creating separate point products in each category.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 4, 2016

On-demand, self-service and just in time have become standard for the applications and services we use, when and where we want to use them. Nolle makes the point that in order to really use the Clouds full potential, a new application has to be built to leverage its agility, flexibility, and elasticity. We are living in an agile world.

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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. the security side, Cato Security as a Service is a fully managed suite of enterprise-grade and agile network security capabilities, directly built into the Cato Global Private Backbone.

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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. FWaaS eliminates those issues by uniformly applying the security policy on all traffic, for all locations and users.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

(Were also getting our taste for speed through o ur partnership with the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team , where Catos services ensure that Porsche has a fast, reliable, and secure network thats imperative for its on-track success.) This tops our previous milestone of up to 3 Gbps per tunnel.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

All PoPs are interconnected using fully-meshed, encrypted tunnels to protect traffic once it is on the network. At the Edge Customers connect to Cato through encrypted tunnels established by appliance devices (called Cato Sockets); IPsec-enabled devices such as firewalls; or client software (for mobile users).

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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

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

AUGUST 2, 2021

Understanding the 2021 Strategic Roadmap for SASE Convergence In July 2019, Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to define the next generation of network security technology. SASE solutions acknowledge that modern networks and security challenges are very different from the past.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is a technology for securing networks by scanning and blocking malicious network traffic. By identifying suspicious activities and dropping packets, an IPS can help reduce the attack surface of an enterprise network. Read more about it in our ZTNA hub ).

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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 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

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Rather than global enterprises having to think about every possible networking failover scenario, Cato Cloud now heals itself end-to-end, ensuring service continuity. We’ve fully converged self-healing into our security and networking cloud platform for follow-the-network security rules.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In our recent survey of more than 700 networking, security, and IT executives and professionals from around the globe, 43% of respondents indicated that latency (along with cost of buying and managing appliances) was their number one WAN challenge. Adding new applications to the WAN, for example, may force updates to router configs.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

Employees need to be able to access corporate networks, resources, and data without fear of eavesdropping or other cyber threats. Historically, many organizations have relied upon VPNs to provide secure remote access. The problem is, however, that VPNs dont meet the business needs of the modern enterprise.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Success 1: Network Security Many machines, systems, and devices in use by manufacturers are vulnerable to cyberattack. Greater visibility, stronger security, and a leaner, more connected operation across the entire value chain. Key Challenges Standing Between Manufacturers and Industry 4.0

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NW Kings

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We will also explore the relationship between TCP and UDP , the uses of ports, security implications, and practical applications in networking. A TCP port is a unique number assigned to specific services and applications that run on a server. Both TCP and UDP use ports to manage network traffic effectively.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Theyll be on the network every workday for hours accessing enterprise applications, files, and data. For security reasons, most organizations choose to route cloud traffic through datacenter security infrastructure first, then out to cloud datacenters many miles away, which adds latency to the home users cloud user experience.

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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. Competition breeds innovation, and this phase introduced new features such as virtualization failover/failback capabilities, and application-aware routing.

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