Akins IT

MAY 15, 2023

The benefits associated with migrating to the cloud arent just for businesses. But when it comes to the cloud, state and local governments face some unique considerations and challenges. This includes encryption, firewalls, access controls, and regular security audits.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One sticking point has always been the branch network stack: deploying, configuring, managing, and retrieving the router, firewall, WAN optimizer, etc., In-net SD-WAN allows maximum service delivery with minimum customer premises equipment (CPE) because most functionality is delivered in the service provider cloud, anywhere from edge to core.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

Earlier last month, we announced that Cato reached a new SASE throughput record , achieving 5 Gbps on a single encrypted tunnel with all security inspections fully enabled. Only a Cloud-Delivered SASE Solution Can Offer Such Performance The improved throughput underscores the benefits of Catos single-vendor, cloud-native SASE architecture.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 14, 2025

This blog will deep dive into their product lines like Strata, Prisma, and Cortex and the ways they meet the security requirements for both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Strata Strata is the central firewall product of Palo Alto Networks. Cortex Cortex is the security operations platform of Palo Alto Networks powered by AI.

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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 is especially true for organizations that rely on legacy next-generation firewalls (NGFWs).

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. And yet, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa , “When businesses decide to move to the cloud, the network tends to be an afterthought.”

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the Cato SASE Cloud Platform , organizations can leverage the security stack to kill the ransomware attack chain as quickly as possible. Attacks targeting firewalls and critical infrastructure, as evidenced in the attacks against a U.S. Double extortion to exfiltrate data before encrypting target systems.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time. No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. With vendors like Amazon AWS and applications like Office 365, the cloud computing market is projected to reach $411B by 2020.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

When the Cato Sockets arrive at your locations, you will be ready to connect them to the Internet and the Cato Cloud. Security Settings Since Cato is a complete SASE solution, it includes such features as firewall-as-a-service, intrusion protection, anti-malware, and application control to name a few.

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CATO Networks

MAY 15, 2017

Once installed, the ransomware encrypts the files on the machine. Disrupt WannaCrypt communications with the Internet Firewall. Figure 3: By configuring Catos Internet Firewall to block TOR traffic, IT managers disrupt communications back to C&C servers. Victims are asked to pay $300 to remove the infection (see Figure 1).

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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. In order for companies to realize SD-WANs cost savings and cloud performance benefits, branch offices must be connected directly to and communicate across the Internet.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

In reality, what the carriers could use, is a whole new fabric built for the cloud-centric enterprise and driven by cloud economics to reduce costs and maximize customer value delivery. For example, adding deep packet inspection of SSL content to stateful firewalls can increase loads on firewalls by 10x.

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CATO Networks

MAY 27, 2018

Network address translation (NAT), firewalls, as well as the widespread use of encryption often obscure the visibility of network sensors. DEEPER DATASET AND MORE CONTEXT By leveraging Cato Cloud, CTHS addresses the deployment challenges, data quality, and lack of context limiting threat hunting systems.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. All PoPs are interconnected using fully-meshed, encrypted tunnels to protect traffic once it is on the network.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Heres a run down and summary of those IoT security best practices for easy reference from some of the top sites and how cloud-based SD-WAN, such as Cato Cloud , can help. Keep authentication keys safe: During deployment, each device requires device IDs and associated authentication keys generated by the cloud service.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Many cloud providers already have capabilities in place for collecting traffic telemetry. Azure has the Azure Network Watcher , AWS has CloudWatch , and GCP has Cloud Monitoring. Correlate the data with other information, such as firewall logs, threat intelligence feeds, and endpoint security data.

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CATO Networks

JULY 17, 2021

Gartner has answered that question by describing a SASE architecture as the convergence of multiple WAN edge and network security capabilities, delivered via a global cloud service that enforces a common policy on all enterprise edges : users, locations, and applications. In short, they drive complexity into the IT lifecycle.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2016

The private nature of MPLS allowed an organization to not encrypt MPLS traffic, a big benefit in terms of encryption key management and required CPE (customer premise equipment) capabilities. The immediate concern is encrypting the internet tunnel of the SD-WAN solution. However, SD-WAN or MPLS arent security solutions.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Cloud Memorystore, Amazon ElastiCache, and Azure Cache), applying this concept to a distributed streaming platform is fairly new. Before Confluent Cloud was announced , a managed service for Apache Kafka did not exist. Confluent Cloud for instance, allows the user to effectively start working with Apache Kafka in 90 seconds.

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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. Cato Cloud has demonstrated true innovation and is leading the way for Software Defined Wide Area Network. The TMC award is the latest recognition for Catos revolutionary cloud-based SD-WAN, Cato Cloud.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

By contrast, The Cato SASE Cloud is the world’sfirst cloud-native SASEplatform , converging SD-WAN and networksecurity in thecloud.Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud data centers, into a global and secure, cloud-native network service.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SASE Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud-based solution that converges network and security functionalities. Cato SSE 360 | Get the White Paper CASB Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) sits between cloud applications and users. According to Gartner (that coined the term), SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The cloud and mobility are the new norm and the WAN needs the agility capabilities, security, and cost structures to adapt to these changes. More companies are looking to avoid the backhaul and use direct Internet access links to put cloud and Internet-bound traffic directly onto the Internet. Office 365, Salesforce, Box, etc.).

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

However, cloud services and mobile users make networks much more dynamic and difficult to secure than they were just a decade ago. Fortunately, cloud-based SD-WAN offers enterprises a holistic WAN solution capable of meeting modern security challenges at scale with cloud-native software and security as a service. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. We built our cloud service to address the connectivity and security needs of the modern enterprise from the ground up.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Instead, a modern, cloud-based solution is needed. The Solution to Manufacturing Challenges: SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) unifies networking and security into a single, cloud-native, and globally distributed service, comprising SD-WAN and security capabilities like FWaaS , ZTNA , CASB , and SWG. investments. Industry 4.0

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Already weve seen the number of active remote or mobile users of the Cato Cloud rise 75 percent since early January, growing from about 10,000 users to 17,500 users. Once the VPN on our primary firewall rebooted. It puts a lot of stuff in one basket, says Adrolls Global Director of IT, Adrian Dunne.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

As the article points out, Gartner analysts defined SASE as a single, vendor cloud-native platform. We refer to it as the secure access service edge and it is primarily delivered as a cloud-based service. We refer to it as the secure access service edge and it is primarily delivered as a cloud-based service.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

These backbones use cloud intelligence and Internet economics to seamlessly combine networking with advanced security at a fraction of the cost of MPLS. Encrypting traffic in-flight is a small part of whats necessary to protect the enterprise. The first such service is the Cato Cloud. But that doesnt have to be the case.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

IPS Features How it Works Most IPS solutions sit behind the firewall, though one type of IPS, HIPS (host-based IPS) sits on endpoints. In addition, with SASE, the security signatures and patches are managed entirely by the SASE cloud, eliminating false positives and removing resource-intensive processes from ITs shoulders.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Myth 2: The Entire Network Needs to be Built with MPLS Businesses have embraced cloud applications for ease of access and lower costs. But these applications live outside the corporate network and the MPLS network doesnt connect to the cloud. Many MPLS customers today add VPN encryption to secure the network.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At the core of NFV is the notion that network functions, such as SD-WAN , firewalling and secure web access, can be delivered as virtual appliances and run either on premises (vCPE) or at the carrier core data centers (hosted). Unlike VNFs, Network Cloud Functions (NCFs) are natively built for cloud delivery.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

They can (and probably do) sit in homes (or cafs) far from any place an office might be situated, accessing cloud apps across the globe. All major public cloud providers AWS, Azure, and GCP — realize the benefits of global private networks and offer backbone services today. This model extends to cloud services as well.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When I read that less than 20% of IT professionals indicated their organizations can properly monitor public cloud infrastructure, it reminded me of the reoccurring network visibility conversations I have with network managers from around the globe. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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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. Where physical hardware cannot be deployed, such as connecting the cloud, agentless deployment is best. and reach $8.05

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Networks drove the introduction of the firewall. Applications spawned multiple security disciplines from two-factor authentication to secure app development, vulnerability scanning and web application firewalls. Cloud-based single sign-on extended traditional enterprise single-sign on to public Cloud applications.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

The dramatic changes in network traffic patterns, from inwards towards the data center to outwards towards the cloud, is challenging the base premise for dedicated WAN optimization appliances. First, the growth in Internet- and cloud-bound traffic is accelerating the introduction of direct secure Internet access at branch locations.

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