CATO Networks

JANUARY 5, 2021

Cato also provides unparalleled visibility into WAN traffic and security. Dive in with them as they demonstrate how to set bidirectional quality of service, utilize Catos Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) capabilities, and deep dive into bandwidth management and analytics.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One of these new innovations technologies is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). What is SASE? SASE is an enterprise networking and security category that converges network and security technologies into a single, cloud-native service. As a result, SASE is gaining momentum across multiple industries, including manufacturing.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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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). The Tactical Start The ripple effect of SASE often starts small, typically focused on a single use case like modernizing WAN infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The WAN landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by demands of cloud, mobility, and globalization. High Costs: MPLS circuits come with a hefty price tag, especially for global enterprises requiring high bandwidth. While SD-WAN eliminates limitations of MPLS, not all SD-WAN solutions are created equal.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2023

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides the ability to implement a secure, high-performance corporate WAN on top of existing networks. However, SD-WAN infrastructures must be carefully designed and implemented to provide full value to the organization. SD-WAN is also beneficial for remote workers.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 25, 2024

The concept of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) promised a revolution in network security. The Intent Behind SASE SASE is meant to streamline the delivery of network security functions, boosting efficiency and reducing complexity for organizations. However, does the reality really live up to the initial hype?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2021

Digitalization, work-from-anywhere,and cloud computing have accelerated SASE offerings to address the need for secure and optimizedaccess, anytime, anywhere, and on any device. And, enterprises should build a strategy for replacing legacy point products with a converged SASE platform.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

Deploying the Cato SASE solution can be both simple and quick if you follow this checklist. The collaboration of this team will be crucial for the successful implementation of your Cato SASE platform. The key deliverable from your planning meetings will be a formal SASE deployment plan, which will become the roadmap for your project.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

You may be familiar with the concept of localized versus centralized policies that exist within legacy SD-WAN architectures, but Catos cloud-native SASE architecture simplifies configuration and policy delivery across all capabilities from a true single management application.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

That is the innovation of SASE. 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 had SD-WAN and networking. Convergence. We already had firewalls and UTMs. We had mobile access solutions.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A recent conversation with a WAN engineer got me thinking about how network optimization techniques have changed over the years. Optimization has always been about overcoming latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth limitations. However, in recent years bandwidth has become much less of an issue for most enterprises.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 15, 2022

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is an enterprise networking and security service that converges SD-WAN with multiple security functions – including FWaaS, CASB, DLP, SWG, and ZTNA – into a converged, cloud-native service that is manageable, optimized, secure and easy to use.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2022

Many organizations neglect to consider bandwidth and capacity requirements of cloud applications. The Cato SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) Cloud converges core capabilities of networking, security and access management into a single software stack that delivers optimized cloud access, predictable performance, and unified policy management.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

Last December, Network World published a thoughtful guide outlining the questions IT organizations should be asking when evaluating SASE platforms. It was an essential list that should be included in any SASE evaluation. In short, Cato provides all of the core SASE capabilities identified by NWW. If not, where are the gaps?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Theyve dubbed this converged architecture SASE, or secure access service edge. SASE moves security out of the legacy datacenter and closer to where users, data and applications reside today. The users traffic is sent to Catos SD-WAN edge device, the Cato Socket, sitting on the local network.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 18, 2023

If you are used to managed MPLS services, transitioning to Internet last-mile access as part of SD-WAN or SASE might cause some concern. In this blog post we explain how SD-WAN and SASE ensure higher reliability and network availability than legacy MPLS and why SLAs are actually overrated.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Get crystal clear on your WAN challenges: Do any of these challenges sound familiar? Youve been told to cut costs Its no secret that MPLS circuits cost a fortune often 3-4x the price of MPLS alternatives (like SD-WAN,) for only a fraction of the bandwidth. Ever Heard of SASE? And who needs that headache?

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CATO Networks

MAY 29, 2023

Network Scalability: The expansion of corporate IT architectures to incorporate new technologies drives a need for more network bandwidth. Scalability: As companies deploy new technologies, their bandwidth requirements continue to grow. Cloud-Based Deployment: SASE solutions are deployed in the cloud.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

The widespread adoption of Gartner’s secure access service edge (SASE) architecture all but debunked that notion, and today it’s widely accepted that networking and security must come together. But for those vendors rushing to join SASE, solution integration has become the answer. For Cato, of course, this is nothing new.

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CATO Networks

MAY 26, 2022

The modern enterprise network is internet-bound, which makes it bandwidth-intensive. Redundant circuits, resilient routing and WAN optimization drive the bill even higher. What Others Wont Tell You About MPLS | Download eBook Is SD-WAN the Solution for MPLSs Shortcomings?

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Our campus and branch , data center , WAN routing , and security products have all proven time and again their ability to boost IT productivity and assure exceptional user and operator experiences for leading hospitals, hotels, schools, stores, campuses, factories and service providers.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2023

The emergence of SASE and SSE brings new hope to be able to deliver fully in each of these areas, eliminating compromise; but not all architectures are truly up to the task. SASE represents the convergence of networking and security, with SSE being a stepping-stone to a complete single-vendor platform.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

Its no secret that many enterprises are reevaluating their WAN. In other cases, it might be a global SD-WAN deployment, which relied too much on the unpredictable Internet. This calls for a SASE service built on a global private backbone. Why a Global SASE Service? Because users and data are everywhere.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2024

The Need for Speed The rapidly evolving technology and digital transformation landscape has ushered in increased requirements for high-speed connectivity to accommodate high-bandwidth application and service demands. This is only possible with a powerful platform like Cato.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2022

Survey Reveals Confusion about the Promise of SASE Prioritizing between network security and network performance is hardly a strategy. So, unless using SASE, enterprises would inevitably end up having to compromise between the two. Yet, this is the SASE service respondents know, hence their confusion is apparent across the survey.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Moreover, traditional VPNs can introduce latency and bandwidth constraints, impacting application performance and user experience: Complexity : VPNs can be complex to manage, especially for large organizations with multiple locations and diverse user populations.

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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. Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Yet VPN wasnt designed to support an entire remote workforce simultaneously, forcing IT to add VPN servers to address the surge of remote users, who also generate more Internet traffic, resulting in the need for bandwidth upgrade. With SASE, a single, global network connects and secures all sites, cloud resources, and remote users.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Theyre ready to realize the benefits of a new SASE infrastructure but remain constrained by their old beliefs about network engineering. Instead of playing with DiffServ bits our customers define bandwidth classes with their numerical priority and limits. Even UCaaS leaders, like RingCentral, have adopted Catos SASE platform.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With limited resources, TLS decryption and in-depth inspection of network traffic can cause performance issues, especially as corporate networks and their traffic bandwidth increase. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions take full advantage of the benefits of the cloud to optimize corporate network security.

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CATO Networks

MAY 22, 2023

For example, understanding an applications traffic and usage patterns could highlight unknown bandwidth requirements and help the organizations cloud migration strategy to ensure maximum performance with minimal latency. SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) provides a means for companies to achieve network visibility across the corporate WAN.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Podcast Episode SASE Enables Effective multi-cloud Security Much of the complexity of multi-cloud security comes from the fact that a multi-cloud deployment consists of many unique cloud environments. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions diminish the complexity of securing multi-cloud deployments by securing the network instead.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Expensive MPLS services are expensive, due to their commitment to ensure high bandwidth, high performance and competitive SLAs. Therefore, the WAN does not have a centralized operations center for reconfiguring locations or deploying new ones and does not enable quick scalability.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

One prominent alternative is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platforms with embedded Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that alleviate the security dangers and other disadvantages of VPN. This is where having ZTNA fully integrated into a Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) solution is most beneficial. (Spoiler alert: they do.)

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