CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

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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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Upside-Down World of Networking & Security | Webinar Firewall Management is a Major Chore Closing these security gaps requires the ability to reduce security teams workloads to a manageable level. One area with significant room for improvement is firewall management.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If you’re like many of the IT leaders we encounter, you’re likely facing a refresh on your firewall appliances or will face one soon enough. And while the standard practice was to exchange one firewall appliance for another, increasingly, enterprises seem to be replacing firewall appliances with firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS).

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As the volume of network traffic increases and a growing percentage is encrypted, traditional network firewalls are falling behind, creating unnecessary tradeoffs between network performance and security. As the volume of encrypted traffic grows, traditional firewalls cant keep up, creating tradeoffs between network performance and security.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

When more of the workforce shifts to working remotely, it puts new and different strains on the infrastructure across different parts of the network, especially where VPN gateways connect to the network edge. More advanced VPNs can do this by application type. The richest data sources are from the VPN devices or firewalls.

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Akins IT

JULY 17, 2018

These profiles can range from custom AV and Vulnerability scanning options to web filtering and application firewall enforcement based on user type (ie. Web and Application Firewall The web filtering and application firewall modules can be implemented to add an additional layer of security and compliance to endpoints.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Whats more, virtual firewalls are limited in capacity, requiring upgrades as traffic grows.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Before Shlomo and Gur cofounded Cato, Shlomo cofounded Check Point Software, creator of the first commercial firewall. Their mission was clear: secure the resources inside the firewall from the wily and dangerous world outside of the firewall. Back then life was much simpler for networking and security professionals.

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Akins IT

JUNE 5, 2019

front-end web server, application, database) and then segmented and secured using network security groups. ON-PREM TO AZURE CONNECTIVITY On-prem to Azure connectivity can be quickly achieved by deploying Azures virtual network gateway (VNG). The VNG acts as a public gateway for site-to-site connectivity using IPSEC VPN tunneling.

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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. SASE solutions use DPI to support its integrated security functions.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Networking Glossary BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) The practice of employees using their personal mobile devices to do their jobs, typically requiring connection to enterprise networks and accessing enterprise data and cloud applications. Firewall as a Service (FwaaS) a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Internet access was centralized in the datacenter for its Dutch sites; the Romanian office had its own firewall and Internet breakout. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 14, 2022

It doesnt focus on new cutting-edge features such as addressing emerging threats or improving application performance. Traffic processing engines are at the core of many networking and security products including routers, SD-WAN devices, next generation firewalls, secure web gateways, IPS , CASB/DLP, and ZTNA products.

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ByteByteGo

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Gain insights on trends like Apache Iceberg, GenAI, and event-driven architectures—all designed to help you build faster, smarter applications. NAT acts as a basic firewall that hides internal IP addresses. Hear from industry leaders, dive into hands-on workshops, and discover how Redpanda simplifies streaming.

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Kentik

MARCH 31, 2021

Here we will dive into the marriage of application and network observability as the means to keep up with today’s “always-great” experience expectations. Networks are increasingly complex and critical to the success of the applications and services that run on them. And enriches that data with context: Application. Threat feeds.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Convergence enables Cato to collapse multiple security solutions such as a next-generation firewall, secure web gateway, anti-malware, and IPS into a cloud service that enforces a unified policy across all corporate locations, users and data. Customers can selectively enable the services, configuring them to enforce corporate policies.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Step 4 – Implement strong firewalling. As true Next-Generation Firewalls which are both identity-aware and application-aware, Catos WAN Firewall and Internet Firewall allow our customers to create fine-grained control over all network traffic across the WAN and to the Internet from all Cato sites and mobile users.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Theyll be on the network every workday for hours accessing enterprise applications, files, and data. Once the VPN on our primary firewall rebooted. Once inside the network, a hacker is only one administrator password away from access to sensitive applications and data. Suddenly 100 engineers couldnt work anymore.

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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). It becomes a gateway to a broader transformation, as the initial project reveals the benefits of consolidating networking and security into a single cloud-native service.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. Connecting to the SAP HEC instance was enabled using 2 IPSEC tunnels, so a full mesh configuration was only possible by deploying a new firewall cluster in the SAP HEC datacenter. Challenge The WAN for J.s It just works.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2015

This was the way firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, email security gateways, data loss prevention and other security systems were implemented. There are two big forces that are pressuring this approach to network security: the use of public Cloud applications and the mobile workforce.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2024

However, the rise of SaaS applications, hybrid work, and global operations has created new challenges for MPLS-based networks, as their once-reliable architecture now fails to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric environments. While SD-WAN eliminates limitations of MPLS, not all SD-WAN solutions are created equal.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues. The most common way to deliver threat protection at a branch is to deploy a local firewall or UTM appliance.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

According to a July 2017 report from market-research firm IDC , SD-WAN adoption is seeing remarkable growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. Applications are grouped into classes, such as voice/video, business-critical, or best effort. and reach $8.05 and reach $8.05

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CATO Networks

JULY 15, 2024

Compounding this challenge is the sheer number of branch offices, connectivity to internal- and cloud-based applications, and all of the disparate point products accumulated over time. If connectivity to the main hospital or data center is lost, access to the applications is also lost. The post I Need 90 PoPs of SASEStat!

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Migration of applications to the cloud had been going on for a decade, offloading complex datacenter operations away from IT, and in that way increasing business resiliency and agility. Cloud access control and sensitive data protection (CASB/DLP) The adoption of public cloud applications enables users to get work done faster.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Converged functionalities include SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), cloud-access security broker (CASB), DLP and secure web gateway (SWG). SASE reduces the risk of cybersecurity breaches and enables global access to applications and systems.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With the widespread adoption of cloud services and remote work, and the broadening distribution of applications and employees away from traditional corporate locations, organizations require a more flexible and scalable approach to network security. Modern enterprise complexity is challenging cybersecurity programs.

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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. Their MPLS configuration also required a stack of appliances firewalls, routers, and WAN optimization at each site that added costs and complexity.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

The lack of a global, SLA-backed backbone leaves SD-WANs unable to provide the consistent, predictable transport needed by real-time service and business-critical applications. As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Current services include a next generation firewall , Secure Web Gateway , Advanced Threat Prevention , Cloud and Mobile Access Protection and network Forensics. Cato Security Services is a fully managed suite of enterprise-grade and agile network security capabilities, directly built into the network.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Instead, MPLS only carries critical application traffic, offloading bandwidth hungry and less critical applications to Internet connections. SD-WAN appliances include basic firewalls, but those firewalls lack the threat protection needed by today’s enterprises. Remote users will require additional services.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

By leveraging Catos SASE platform, WE can rapidly deploy a wide range of networking and security capabilities across locations, users, and applications to enable customers digital transformation journeys. Cato offers WE a unique business and technical competitive advantage. No need for complex HA planning and orchestration.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., It would typically be bound for a SaaS application perhaps one that isnt hosted in the same region or to your own datacenter or another branch office (i.e., Are we able to prioritize our key applications, use cases and workloads into our network?

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you are in a remote office, your organization may not be able to afford a stack of security appliances (firewall, secure web gateway or SWG , etc.) This twisted path, resembling the bent pipes of a trombone, has a negative impact on latency and therefore on the user experience. Why does this compromise exist? in your office.

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