CATO Networks

JANUARY 27, 2022

What is a Remote Access VPN and How Does it Work? A remote access virtual private network (VPN) is a solution designed to securely connect a remote user to the enterprise network. A remote access VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between a remote worker and the enterprise network.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2023

Historically, virtual private networks (VPNs) were the only available solution, and this familiarity has driven many organizations to expand their existing VPN infrastructure as the need for secure remote access has grown. While VPNs can protect against eavesdroppers, thats about all that they can do.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies that already offered VPN services to a small group of remote workers scurried to extend those capabilities to the much larger workforce sequestering at home. With a VPN, all communication between the user and the VPN is encrypted. Performance can be an issue.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak led to a surge in business VPN usage in an extremely short timeframe. In fact, multiple regions saw VPN usage rise over 200% in a matter of weeks. However, as they settle into the new normal, many enterprises are also learning that there are several VPN disadvantages as well. Lets find out.

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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. VPNs provide point-to-point connectivity. Security is still a considerable concern when VPNs are used.

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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. Historically, many organizations have relied upon VPNs to provide secure remote access.

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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

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

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. In many cases, companies are reliant on VPNs to provide this capability.

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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. Keep in mind however, that unless SD-WAN is deployed as part of SASE, it cant support global connectivity, network optimization, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote users.

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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

MAY 24, 2020

The same group that was behind a series of attacks on companies using sophisticated malware that encrypts files, known as Sodinokibi or REvil. It is speculated that the attack on Travelex became possible because the company had failed to patch vulnerable VPN servers. We also address the shortcomings of VPNs.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Weve all heard of AV and VPN, but there are many more cybersecurity-related acronyms and abbreviations that are worth taking note of. 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.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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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

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS designed for the pre-Cloud era MPLS links are often used within mid-to-large organizations to carry latency sensitive traffic such as VOIP, Video, and other critical enterprise applications. MPLS isnt encrypted by default: MPLS relies on the carrier private network for security because the data doesnt flow on the public Internet.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity. Once cloud and mobile became mainstream, a fundamental flaw in MPLS was exposed. for the job, this means no more trombone effect and improved performance for mobile users and cloud services.

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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. These firewalls are specifically designed for installation in different environments like data centers, hybrid cloud setups, and remote branches.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Much has been made about their high costs, long-time to deploy, and poor fit for running Internet and cloud traffic. They encrypt traffic, like any other VPN, but lack the advanced security services necessary for defending against advanced persistent threats, malware penetration, and more.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Workers are increasingly accessing sensitive data in the cloud, spilling over personal and professional tech usage, and opening up their places of work to being hacked. The most critical data, coming from our business intelligence software to our customer relationship management systems , is moving to the cloud.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to SD-WAN, he concedes: Theres a huge business case that SD-WAN products are aiming to solve: replacing traditional MPLS/VPN networks with encrypted transport over public Internet.Internet access is often orders of magnitude cheaper than traditional circuits.

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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. High per megabit pricing is out-of-step with todays tendency towards video-oriented, bandwidth-intensive Internet-and cloud-bound data flows.

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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. The packet egresses from the PoP and is sent to the destination.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 10, 2022

The Cato SASE Cloud was able to quickly consolidate all that mess into a single global set of rules, with an obvious positive impact on both security and management. This is because Cato Sockets are very simple devices that simply direct traffic to our cloud, where most of the complex encryption and other technologies lie.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

Cisco in its recent report flushed that out a bit further defining NaaS as a cloud-enabled, usage-based consumption model that allows users to acquire and orchestrate network capabilities without owning, building, or maintaining their own infrastructure, writes industry analyst , Tom Nolle. All outbound site traffic is sent to the PoP.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Cato software converges security and networking functions together and into one cloud-native platform. With most functionalities converged into the cloud, the connecting software or device can be very light, running as an SD-WAN device, a virtual appliance, or even a small piece of software, like a mobile client.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

With the rise of mobility, cloud datacenters, and Software as a Service (SaaS) the classical demarcation between public and private networks becomes less relevant, driving changes in four IT disciplines – security, cloud, mobility, as well as networking. Will security still be implemented?

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Kentik

AUGUST 4, 2017

Also in the news this week, China and Russia both cracked down on VPN usage. Over the past two months, a number of the most popular Chinese VPNs have been shut down, while two popular sites hosting foreign television shows and movies were wiped clean.”.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2017

With a spoofed WLAN, the attackers can see the traffic traversing their sites as well as modify the HTML and the JavaScript contained in HTTP requests Most Internet traffic from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) mobile users is encrypted either by the companys VPN or by HTTPS.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Executive Summary Modern ransomware attacks have evolved beyond simple encryption to deploy sophisticated double extortion tactics. Threat actors now systematically exfiltrate sensitive data before encrypting systems, ensuring leverage even when victims have robust data backups. exe as shown in Figure 5 below.

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Indeed Engineering

JULY 3, 2024

Step 2: Implement a solution that works for Indeeds heterogeneous workloads across third-party SaaS cloud vendors and Indeeds own (first-party) apps. SPIRE SPIRE is a PKI project that graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. During this time, our mesh was only protected by the network perimeter behind the VPN.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

With Cato Cloud, IT managers can not just prioritize business-critical traffic, but report on and manage all traffic types across their backbones. Now we can use a socket, a VPN tunnel, or the mobile client, depending on location and user requirements. Cato Cloud intercepts SSL/TLS traffic at scale.

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Software Architecture Zen

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Under technofeudalism, a new ruling class draws power from owning cloud capital whose tentacles entangle everyone. As it says in this posts opening quote from Yanis Varoufakis, technofeudalists are the new ruling class that draw their power from owning cloud capital whose tentacles entangle everyone.

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