CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Of late, theres talk about using multiple vendors to deliver a SASE solution. But is that what SASE is all about? 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.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When those teams are in lockstep and ready to change, SASE adoption is the logical evolution. SSE is the half of secure access service edge (SASE) focusing on the convergence of security services; networking convergence forms the other half of SASE. SASE vs SD-WAN Whats Beyond Security | Download eBook Why Is SSE Important?

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 2, 2021

Understanding the 2021 Strategic Roadmap for SASE Convergence In July 2019, Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to define the next generation of network security technology. SASE solutions acknowledge that modern networks and security challenges are very different from the past.

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CATO Networks

MAY 19, 2022

Why do you need a SASE RFP? Shopping for a SASE solution isnt as easy as it sounds… SASE is an enterprise networking and security framework that is relatively new to the enterprise IT market (introduced by Gartner in 2019.) And less than 3 years young, SASE is often prone to misunderstanding and vendor marketecture.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

Customer experience isnt just an important aspect of the SASE market, it is its essence. SASE isnt about groundbreaking features. But with SASE, more features arent necessarily better if they cant be deployed, managed, scaled, optimized, or used globally in a seamless way. Cato delivers the true SASE experience.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

When deciding to digitally transform your network to SASE, the large number of vendors out there might be confusing. To get the full SASE RFP template to help you navigate the vendor vetting process, click here. But first, lets understand what SASE is. What is SASE? SASE RFI Made Easy | Get the Template What is SASE?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 29, 2021

A good portion of my day is spent speakingwiththenewsmediaaboutCato and theSASEmarket.Theres aroutinetothese conversations.Manywillgroan over an acronym thats pronounced sassy.Theyll listenbutoftendismissthe area asjustmoreGartnerhype.Formany, SASE seems like another marketing exercise like Big Data or Cloud Computing. And I get that.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Our mission is to deliver the Cato SASE experience to organizations of all sizes, support mission critical operations at any scale, and deliver best-in-class networking and security capabilities. Cato enables any organization to maintain top notch infrastructure by making the Cato SASE Cloud its enterprise networking and security platform.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2020

As SASE becomes more widely adopted in the industry, there are wide discrepancies in the use of the term. In its August 2019 report, The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, Gartner saw SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) as creating a single network for the complete enterprise, connecting and securing all edges everywhere.

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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. Double extortion to exfiltrate data before encrypting target systems. This blog provides a summary of notable activity by Hellcat in November and December 2024.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Double Extortion: Double extortion ransomware both steals and encrypts sensitive and valuable data on an infected system. Lateral Movement: Ransomware rarely immediately lands on a device containing the high-value data that it plans to encrypt. Monitoring time intervals, such as encrypting drives in seconds.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

For all of its talk, SASE as understood by much of the industry, will not completely replace a global MPLS network; the Internet is simply too unpredictable for that. Only by converging SASE with NaaS can companies eliminate costly, legacy MPLS services. Gartner identifies the specific attributes of a cloud service.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

In particular, the emergence of cloud computing and user mobility have increased business agility, allowing rapid response to new opportunities. The network of old needs to change to accommodate the phenomenal growth of cloud and mobility. Theyve dubbed this converged architecture SASE, or secure access service edge.

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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? After Cato , all of the updates and most of the management were simply delegated to the Cato SASE Cloud.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This is especially true if TLS decryption is required for inspection of encrypted traffic as this can exhaust an appliances compute capacity. Cloud-based Security is Essential for Modern Threat Management One of the main limitations of security solutions is that effectively inspecting and securing network traffic is computationally expensive.

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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. The Cato software converges security and networking functions together and into one cloud-native platform.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This blog post explores how to implement an IPS in your overall security strategy with SASE. Eliminate Threat Intelligence False Positives with SASE | Get eBook IPS vs. IDS – Whats the Difference? However, to get the most out of IPS, while reducing IT overhead and costs, it is recommended to implement an IPS together with SASE.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 27, 2022

A remote access VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between a remote worker and the enterprise network. VPNs in general are designed to create an encrypted tunnel between two points. Each endpoint of the VPN connection will use this shared encryption key to encrypt the traffic sent to the other endpoint and decrypt traffic sent to them.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) applications are available to cater for nearly every aspect of an organization’s needs. As the shift to cloud trend has been adopted by nearly all enterprises of all sizes, and the need for a solution such as CASB being so evident, the question remains why are we not seeing greater adoption?

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

Many enterprises today are exploring the benefits of Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ). SASE is a modern networking and security solution for enterprises that converges SD-WAN and network security solutions like NGFW, IPS, and NGAM. Network devices are the physical appliances that enable connectivity and security in the network.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. With a VPN, all communication between the user and the VPN is encrypted. The encryption process takes time, and depending on the type of encryption used, this may add noticeable latency to Internet communications. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

This calls for a SASE service built on a global private backbone. Why a Global SASE Service? 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. Today, its the largest private SASE network spanning 70+ PoPs worldwide.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Encrypt Data, Not Just the Tunnel Most remote access solutions create an encrypted point-to-point tunnel to carry the communications payload. The data payload itself must also be encrypted for strong security. While the tunnel itself is encrypted, the traffic traveling within that tunnel typically is not.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

Since SASEs introduction, many networking and security vendors have rushed to capitalize on the market by partnering with other providers to include cloud backbones as part of their SASE offerings. But SASE isnt just a bunch of features in appliances managed from the cloud. How do we ensure good performance ?

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 1, 2022

At the same time, corporate IT assets are increasingly moving to the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud-native applications can offer improved performance, availability, and scalability for an organizations employees and customers. Corporate networks and business needs are evolving, and VPNs are not keeping up.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To keep business functioning as best as possible, enterprises need to provide secure remote connectivity to the corporate network and cloud-based resources for their remote workers. While the tunnel itself is encrypted, the traffic traveling within that tunnel is not inspected for malware or other threats.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Encryption : This is the process of encoding data so that it can be transmitted securely and only accessed by authorized users. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) : These are networks that use encryption and other security measures to create a secure connection over a public network, such as the internet.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2023

Digital transformation initiatives, cloud adoption, remote work, and other factors all have a significant impact on where corporate IT assets are located and how corporate networks are used. VPNs provide an encrypted connection between two points, securing traffic between a remote users computer and the VPN server on the corporate network.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 21, 2022

Using machine learning algorithms and the deep network insight of the Cato SASE Cloud , were able to detect and prevent the spread of ransomware across networks without having to deploy endpoint agents. As you might have heard, Cato introduced network-based ransomware protection today.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

Watch the episode – Using SASE For ZTNA: The Future of Post-Covid 19 IT Architecture VPN disadvantages While it is true remote access VPN saved the day for some businesses, its also true that the increased usage has further magnified some of the biggest VPN disadvantages. #1: Delivers hyper-scalability. Provides granular access control.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, with growing cloud adoption, this perimeter would need to enclose the entire Internet, making it ineffective for security. With corporate assets scattered on-prem and in the cloud, this usually results in traffic being routed to a central location for inspection, increasing network latency.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2023

This includes creating an encrypted VPN tunnel between two endpoints such as a remote employees computer and a VPN server on the corporate network for business traffic to travel over. Geographic constraints VPNs are designed to connect two points with an encrypted tunnel that network traffic can flow over.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

By understanding the strengths and limitations of these two technologies you can best understand how they should be deployed and where secure access service edge (SASE) fits into the picture. The encryption problem : Most enterprise traffic today is encrypted and data compression and deduplication are ineffective on encrypted traffic.

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