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

OCTOBER 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link.

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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. Companies must still to deploy external security appliances.

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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 1, 2017

As mobile users connect directly to the internet through unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and offices access cloud resources via direct internet access, the attack surface grows. This, at a time when security teams already struggle to keep ahead of threat actors and new attack vectors.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 21, 2019

How SDWaaS Differs from Alternative SD-WAN Solutions Some SD-WAN vendors offer a service that uses service chaining that redirects traffic to security appliances or cloud security services for inspection. Physical security appliances will still need to be scaled, patched, and upgraded.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cato SSE 360: Finally, SSE with Total Visibility and Control | Whitepaper A Close Look at Catos Networking Policy Catos SASE Cloud is comprised of over 75 (and growing) top-tier data center locations, each connected with multiple tier 1 ISP connections forming Catos global private backbone.

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CATO Networks

MAY 29, 2023

For example, many organizations are rapidly adopting cloud computing, and the growing maturity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has the potential to unlock new operational efficiencies. Network Scalability: The expansion of corporate IT architectures to incorporate new technologies drives a need for more network bandwidth.

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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

APRIL 16, 2019

Ransomware makes use of backdoor entry predominantly, compromising the network security as well as the data security. With small branch offices often lax in their security policies, they become a favorite entry port for all too many attackers. However, data replication is subjected to higher usage of network bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2023

Corporate networks are rapidly becoming more complex and distributed. With the growth of cloud computing, remote work, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT), companies have users and IT assets everywhere, requiring connectivity. When traffic is sent to the SD-WAN device, it selects the most optimal path based on network conditions.

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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. Here there’s a balance of considerations.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Internet infrastructure is often less developed, which can lead to problems such as packet loss over the last mile. Last-mile considerations Internet last-mile connections in developing countries are often less reliable than in North America or Europe. 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

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. 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

JULY 31, 2023

NEW EMA Report: Establishing a Mature Foundation for SASE Success | Download the Report SD-WAN Replaces MPLS The internet has become a primary means of WAN connectivity for 63% of organizations. This shift impacts the use of MPLS , with the internet is being leveraged more often to boost overall bandwidth.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

A network attack is any attempt to gain access to or otherwise compromise the integrity or availability of a network. Network attacks come in many forms. Guaranteeing network security and performance in the face of these attacks, whatever form they take, is one of the principal responsibilities of network operators today.

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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

JUNE 23, 2019

Mirai DDOS attacks also crippled Rutgers Universitys network and Internet access across the African country of Liberia. Access to copious enterprise bandwidth may enable Mirai to launch even more devastating attacks than before. Protecting your network from infection isnt rocket science.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2020

This would translate into multiple projects: negotiate MPLS contracts for global connectivity, deploy WAN optimization to improve the overseas application performance, connect offices with local Internet breakout, and secure each office with UTMs or SWGs. So lets compare the old way with the new.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

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. A workaround enterprises have used to improve site availability, is pairing an MPLS connection with backup Internet connections.

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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. Security must be an inherent part of the network, which is why Gartner expects networking and security to converge.

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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

JULY 26, 2022

MPLS came of age when users worked in offices, resources resided in the datacenter, and the Internet was an afterthought. It was hopelessly out of step with a world that needed to move fast and one obsessed with the Internet. High Availability (HA) becomes a headache: With SD-WAN relying on Internet connections, HA is all but required.

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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

MAY 16, 2018

As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical. Results from the survey reveal problems stemming from complexity are driving organizations to find solutions that simplify security and the underlying infrastructure. Protection was particularly important as employees accessed the Internet directly.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ. Mobile users Some network setups do not visibility or control for mobile access to cloud applications. Software-defined wide area network is a new way to manage and optimize enterprise networks.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2017

Many enterprises are, for example, replacing managed WAN services like MPLS with public internet connections at remote sites. Organizations are pursuing these changes for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that they enable direct cloud access and higher bandwidth at a lower cost. Advanced network analytics.

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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

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. This provides improved security visibility and additional context regarding cyber threats.

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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

APRIL 20, 2022

This couldnt have come at a better time… Employees have been blowing up the helpdesk, complaining about slow internet, laggy Zoom calls and demos that disconnect with prospects. 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

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, the trombone effect (the inefficient backhauling of cloud bound traffic through a specific network endpoint) often meant MPLS connectivity to cloud assets was worse than standard Internet connections. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative. The solution?

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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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Kentik

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Some have heard that only egress traffic is chargeable, or that inter-region/VPC bandwidth is more expensive than intra-region/VPC traffic, and that traffic consumption may be charged differently for each geo / zone. As shown in the below diagram, customers can leverage VPC Flow Log monitoring to track network activity over ?

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