CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Enter SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), a revolutionary architecture that converges networking and security into a single, cloud-native platform. For retailers looking to stay ahead of the curve, adopting a true SASE platform is not just advantageousit’s essential. SASE For Different Verticals | Get the Report!

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CATO Networks

JULY 1, 2024

2024 is expected to be another year of strong growth in the SASE market. DellOro Group predicts the SASE market will surpass $10 billion by the end of the year representing more than a doubling of the total market in three years, according to Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Research Director of DellOro Group. Whats driving this trend?

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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. Starting with SSE necessitates having an SSE provider with a smooth migration path to SASE.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 10, 2023

In addition to security applications, this data can also provide insight into how corporate IT assets are being used and inform infrastructure design and investment. VPNs are a well-established remote access solution, and many organizations turned to them to support their remote employees.

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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. Two years later, Gartner created a related framework focused exclusively on the security pillar of SASE, the Security Service Edge (SSE).

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2021

Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) offers security designed for the modern enterprise, including native support for remote work. SASE combines networking and security functions into a single cloud service. However, adopting SASE means that an organization needs to make major changes in how its network operates and is secured.

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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. Theyve dubbed this converged architecture SASE, or secure access service edge.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

As critical business applications migrate to the cloud, and the mobile workforce continues to grow, networking and security solutions need to evolve in order to meet the changing business needs. Applications, data, and services lived within private datacenters and relied on remote access solutions to connect remote workers.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak led to a surge in business VPN usage in an extremely short timeframe. In fact, multiple regions saw VPN usage rise over 200% in a matter of weeks. However, as they settle into the new normal, many enterprises are also learning that there are several VPN disadvantages as well. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, on the user side, enterprises are grappling with the limitations of VPNs, which were once the go-to solution for secure remote access. The VPN Dilemma VPNs, while effective for basic remote access, often fall short in addressing the evolving security and performance needs of modern enterprises.

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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 10, 2022

Weve been touting the real-world benefits of Cato SASE on our Web site and in seminars, case studies, and solution briefs since the company was founded, but how do those benefits translate into hard numbers? Better application performance : We expected this result, which comes from improved network performance. Are we secure?

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CATO Networks

MAY 3, 2022

However, even if an organizations VPN infrastructure is performing well, there is still security to consider. However, even if an organizations VPN infrastructure is performing well, there is still security to consider. A VPN is designed to provide a remote user with unrestricted, private access to the corporate network.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies that already offered VPN services to a small group of remote workers scurried to extend those capabilities to the much larger workforce sequestering at home. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one. Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. Lets have a look at each approach.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 28, 2022

There is a common clich that is often thrown around during SASE vendor discussions you are comparing apples to oranges. So, let us take a look at what this expression means, and why we should compare apples and oranges when evaluating SASE solutions. Why Compare Apples and Oranges An apple and an orange have many things in common.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Enterprise Solutions for Secure Remote Access There are three primary enterprise-grade solutions that businesses use today for secure remote access: Virtual Private Network (VPN); Zero Trust Network Access ( ZTNA ); and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). VPNs provide point-to-point connectivity.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Weve all heard of AV and VPN, but there are many more cybersecurity-related acronyms and abbreviations that are worth taking note of. SASE Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud-based solution that converges network and security functionalities. SASE solutions use DPI to support its integrated security functions.

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CATO Networks

MAY 12, 2020

Current solutions, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) servers, provide connectivity for some users, some of the time. But VPN servers cant support all the users, all the time which is exactly whats needed to continue your business during a global crisis. VPN provides secure access at network level, rather than at application level.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2020

At the same time this unprecedented shift to remote work is occurring, businesses are realizing traditional enterprise remote access solutions, like Internet-based VPN, often arent capable of addressing all the needs of large-scale work from home. As a result, user experience and productivity can suffer. Lets take a look.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies looking to provide secure remote access to their off-site employees have largely chosen to expand their existing virtual private network (VPN) deployments. VPNs are ill-suited to meeting modern business needs and will only become less so in the future. Moving Beyond the VPN A remote access VPN is a thing of the past.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud-native applications can offer improved performance, availability, and scalability for an organizations employees and customers. In many cases, companies are reliant on VPNs to provide this capability. Legacy VPN solutions are simply not designed to meet the needs of the modern enterprise.

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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. Many newer users also find themselves struggling with unfamiliar VPN client software, passwords, and connections to multiple cloud services.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2022

An MSP that makes ZTNA part of its service offering can reap significant benefits, especially if it is deployed as part of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering. Lets take a closer look at some of the key benefits: Tighter Security Controls VPNs are designed solely to provide a secure network link between two points.

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CATO Networks

JULY 27, 2021

Issues with VPN infrastructure mean that remote users have unstable connections to the corporate network. Additionally, 30% of the respondents claim that application performance is worse when working remotely compared to working from the office. Poor network and application performance affects employee productivity.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

This blog post breaks down the considerations and requirements of strategic change, while comparing two courses of action – transforming early or waiting for the last minute – and proposes a plan for gradual adoption of SASE. As applications generate more traffic, video and data, costs are expected to go up even more.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 25, 2021

It was a massive undertaking that saw 2,376 participants from across the globe provide detailed insights into how their organizations responded to the COVID-19 crisis, their plans for next year, and what they think about secure access service edge (SASE). But delivering those capabilities cant be done by compromising application performance.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

I read with some surprise the interview with Zscalers CEO, Jay Chaudry, in CRN where he stated that the network firewalls will go the way of the mainframe, that the network is just plumbing and that Zscaler proxy overlay architecture will replace it with its application switchboard. This is my take. The proxy firewalls faded.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Under this model, insiders connected directly or via a VPN are granted unrestricted access to corporate networks, systems, and applications. Due to the limitations of VPNs, the focus of zero trust discussions is often on controlling users access to corporate resources.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Employees constantly complain about performance While traditional hub-and-spoke networking topology comes with its advantages, when users backhaul to the data center they clog the network with bandwidth-heavy applications like VOIP and file transfer. Ever Heard of SASE? No, SASE isnt just a buzzword or industry hype.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SASE can help ease this pressure. SASE provides reliable global connectivity with optimized network performance , 99.999% uptime and a self-healing architecture that ensures employees can focus on advancing the business, instead of tuning and troubleshooting network performance.

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CATO Networks

JULY 27, 2020

For the second year in a row, Cato Networks was recognized as a Sample Vendor in the Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) category in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2020. The report also taught us quite a bit more about SASE since its introduction nearly a year ago. Here are some of the key highlights and insights.

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The Network DNA

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This can be explained by the fact that a universal ZTNA solution is created in the cloud, usually using a security service edge (SSE) or secure access service edge (SASE) framework. No matter where users work from, a universal ZTNA provides safe network, SaaS, and application access without requiring implicit trust.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It turns out that the solution enterprises say they want is found in what SASE already delivers. VPNs were the primary method of connectivity for road warriors and people who occasionally worked from home or away from the office. It was standard procedure for an enterprise to build VPN capacity for a small percentage of its workforce.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The infrastructure needed to support these remote users, virtual private network (VPN) solutions, was built for the brave few and not for the masses. During the first wave of COVID-19, IT had to throw money and hardware at the problem, stacking up legacy VPN servers all over the world to catch up with the demand.

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CATO Networks

JULY 25, 2023

In legacy architectures, most users were in the office,using on-premises applications, remote user traffic was backhauled through the data center, where security policies were enforced through point solutions. ZTNA provides access to private applications. But moving all point solutions to the cloud isnt a good approach either.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Zero Trust Architecture represents a fundamental shift from traditional castle-and-moat solutions such as Internet-based VPN appliances for remote network access. Zero Trust Architecture couples these functions with granular application-level access policies set to default-deny.

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