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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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN. However, using MPLS bandwidth to backhaul Internet data to a secure location is expensive and affects performance. Other solutions like building regional hubs are still costly and complex.

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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

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

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. Every appliance came with its management platform, complicating troubleshooting.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more IT managers are interested in converging SD-WAN with network security and for good reason. An agile, efficient, and ubiquitous security architecture is essential if organizations are to fully transform their networks. Its an SD-WAN built from the ground up with security in mind.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Enhancing Your Enterprise Network Security Strategy | Webinar Legacy Firewall Security Solutions Cant Keep Up Zero-day threat detection is essential for protecting against modern cyber threats, but it is also resource-intensive.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2019

Access to copious enterprise bandwidth may enable Mirai to launch even more devastating attacks than before. Protecting your network from infection isnt rocket science. Cato also prevents malware, like Mirai, from entering your SD-WAN or spreading across sites with its enterprise-grade network security stack.

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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. The new model to meet the networking needs of globally distributed enterprises is a cloud network, also known as software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ) as a service.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Low Overhead : Static routes do not consume bandwidth for routing updates or require additional CPU resources to compute paths. Simplicity : Static routing manages dynamic routing protocols, especially for smaller or less complex networks. This characteristic makes them efficient for routers with limited processing capabilities.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

For your business to stay ahead of the pack, you should be looking to improve network and security infrastructure to have the flexibility and strength to handle not just todays bandwidth demands, but tomorrows demands as well. So what are the options in dealing with your ever-changing enterprise network requirements?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

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. DIA also means IT can reduce their monthly bandwidth spend by as much as 90 percent.

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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

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.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the face of rising bandwidth costs and the limitations of MPLS , IT teams turn to SD-WAN, a more flexible and cost-effective solution that leverages public internet links to improve performance and reliability. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Organizations with far fewer locations and employees than Maersk are equally challenged with the complexity of securing the WAN that requires a plethora of costly hardware devices along with having staff with the skill sets to manage them all. As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical.

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

A very common alternative architecture is to use firewalls to establish Internet-based VPN tunnels between enterprise locations. Massive increase in Internet capacity and availability Internet bandwidth availability and capacity have increased dramatically over the past decade as prices plummeted.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently. Integrated Security-Network Evaluation CIOs and IT leaders should pull together an interdisciplinary team to take a strategic approach to the new WAN and the dissolved perimeter. But agility is more than just a networking issue.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

If you cant answer YES to all the above, then it looks like your current network infrastructure is inadequate to ensure business continuity when it comes to secure data access, optimized user experience, and effective visibility and management. But does that guarantee business operations continue as usual?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The heterogeneity of an organizations cloud deployment can make it complex to develop firewall security rules and enforce consistent security policies across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Security Integration: SASE solutions implement a full network security stack , including an NGFW, IPS, CASB, ZTNA, and more.

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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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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

JUNE 7, 2020

Robust application-prioritization capabilities allow enterprises to align last-mile usage with business needs by prioritizing and allocating bandwidth by application. Enterprises also can prioritize bandwidth usage within applications using Catos identity-aware routing capabilities.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

More specifically this meant: More capacity to improve application performance Reduced network costs by using affordable Internet access, not high-priced MPLS capacity. Advanced Security SD-WAN lacks the necessary security to protect branch offices. Native cloud connectivity within the PoPs connects IaaS and SaaS resources.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When Gartner defined the market for the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) last year, we had already seen all its networking and security functions on the market. We already had firewalls and UTMs. We had SD-WAN and networking. We had mobile access solutions.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Network as a Service: A crash course With NaaS, many WAN complexities can be abstracted away. Third- party services deliver network functionalities such as VPN, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD). The Cato Cloud has a built-in network security stack that includes: Next-Generation Firewall.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditionally, network visibility within the WAN has been made possible by SIEM (security information and event management) solutions and network management systems that aggregate packet flow data from multiple security and network monitoring tools such as security appliances, firewalls, and endpoint sensors.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

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. Enterprises manage and monitor networking, security, and access through a single application. Is the integration seamless?

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Kentik

APRIL 12, 2023

With modern networks’ increasing complexity and scale, it has become essential to collect and analyze data from various sources to gain insights into network performance, security, and availability. For example, suppose telemetry data shows network traffic congested at a particular interface.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Once the user and device meet the specified requirements, access is granted to specific applications and network resources based upon the users identity. This approach enables tighter overall network security as well as micro-segmentation that can limit lateral movement in the event a breach occurs.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 17, 2021

Enterprises are turning to a much more secure user access model known as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). This approach enables tighter overall network security and micro-segmentation that can limit lateral movement in the event a breach occurs.

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