CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If you’re like many of the IT leaders we encounter, you’re likely facing a refresh on your firewall appliances or will face one soon enough. And while the standard practice was to exchange one firewall appliance for another, increasingly, enterprises seem to be replacing firewall appliances with firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS).

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CATO Networks

APRIL 23, 2018

Every organization eventually needs to re-evaluate their existing firewall vendors. In these situations, network managers need to evaluate the state of their vendors firewall and the future viability of their security software and hardware. However, enterprise networks have evolved with the rise of cloud services and mobile users.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Edge computing and the distributed cloud both cracked Gartners Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020 , reminding me of a recent discussion on the challenges enterprises face when securing the modern WAN. Traditional firewall security simply cant keep up with the challenges created by these new network paradigms. Lets find out.

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In this post, we will discuss how we established a secure, stable, and resilient private network connection between DoorDash microservices and our vendor’s on-premise data centers by leveraging the network facilities from our cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The traffic inside VPC is forwarded to a Direct Connect Gateway (DXG).

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CATO Networks

APRIL 6, 2023

Most SSE solutions can support moving branch security to the cloud. But only a few can securely cloudify the datacenter firewall. This is because datacenter firewalls dont just address the need for secure Internet access, which is the main SSE capability. Which SSE Can Replace the Physical Datacenter Firewalls?

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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. So what is a Firewall as a Service and why do you need it? FWaaS is a new type of a Next Generation Firewall.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Balancing these trade-offs across the many components of at-scale cloud networks sits at the core of network design and implementation. While there is much to be said about cloud costs and performance , I want to focus this article primarily on reliability. What is cloud network reliability?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2021

Firewalls Evolve Over the Years Before the UTM, there was the basic firewall. All traffic passed through the firewall for basic inspection of security policies based on network information such as the type of protocol or the source/destination addresses.

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Akins IT

MARCH 13, 2023

The Increasing Cybersecurity Risks for Schools and How to Overcome Them As schools adopt new learning initiatives such as online learning, cloud based systems, and integrate mobile and IoT devices into their networks, cybersecurity risks are also increasing.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Companies are increasingly adopting cloud infrastructure, remote and hybrid work models, and Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. The Upside-Down World of Networking & Security | Webinar Firewall Management is a Major Chore Closing these security gaps requires the ability to reduce security teams workloads to a manageable level.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2018

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. Essentially all traffic is pull back to an on-premise firewall and from there put out onto the Internet.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

SECURING YOUR AZURE VIRTUAL NETWORK WITH A NEXT GENERATION FIREWALL PART 4: ROUTING, FIREWALL POLICIES, AND SECURITY PROFILES User Defined Routes (UDR) By default, Azure networks automatically generate system routes for connectivity between subnets within a VNET. A default route of 0.0.0.0/0

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Firewalls – the foundation of an organizations network security strategy – filters network traffic and can enforce an organizations security rules. By limiting the traffic that enters and leaves or enters an organizations network, a firewall can dramatically reduce its vulnerability to data breaches and other cyberattacks.

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Akins IT

JULY 19, 2019

NEXT GENERATION FIREWALL MUST-HAVE FEATURES PART 1: QUALITY OF SERVICE In todays digital age, security has become tantamount to success in ensuring business continuity. Most NG firewalls have the ability to detect application sets or static rules that apply priorities to specific types of network traffic.

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Confluent

MARCH 4, 2019

Cloud is one of the key drivers for innovation. But to perform all this experimentation; companies cannot wait weeks or even months for IT to get them the appropriate infrastructure so they can start innovating, hence why cloud computing is becoming a standard for new developments. But cloud alone doesn’t solve all the problems.

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Packet Pushers

MAY 4, 2023

On today's Day Two Cloud we explore cloud networking certifications. Which clouds should you focus on? Where do third-party devices such as firewalls and load balancers fit into the certification picture? On today's Day Two Cloud we explore cloud networking certifications. Which clouds should you focus on?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As the volume of network traffic increases and a growing percentage is encrypted, traditional network firewalls are falling behind, creating unnecessary tradeoffs between network performance and security. Cloud-Native Design: SASE points of presence (PoPs) are built with cloud-native software.

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Packet Pushers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Ethan Banks & Ned Bellavance have a tech discussion with CEO Doug Murray and CTO Vishal Jain about multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Engineers should walk away from this chat with a solid idea of Valtix architecture and how it fits into their cloud design.

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Packet Pushers

MAY 8, 2023

This week we discuss a new Azure-native cloud firewall from Palo Alto Networks, why pharma giant Merck might be owed a big settlement from its cyber-insurers, and why HPE wants to simplify its branding. Take a Network Break! Take a Network Break!

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Organizations need to protect themselves from the risks of running their business over the internet and processing sensitive data in the cloud. The growth of SaaS applications, Shadow IT and work from anywhere have therefore driven a rapid adoption of cloud-delivered cybersecurity services. See Figure 1 below.

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Packet Pushers

JANUARY 17, 2022

On todays Tech Bytes podcast were talking security clouds; that is, cloud services that offer capabilities including firewalls, traffic inspection, Web gateways, and more. We explore why these clouds arent all the same, and why the architecture, including networking, makes a difference. Netskope is this episode's sponsor.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.

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Packet Pushers

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This weeks tech news includes new cloud-delivered security services from Juniper Networks and Cato Networks, new firewall hardware from Fortinet, prognostications on the campus switch market, Cisco teasing a private 5G service, and more. Take a Network Break! Take a Network Break!

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Whats more, virtual firewalls are limited in capacity, requiring upgrades as traffic grows. Nor does edge SD-WAN help.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 9, 2019

The cost of the total solution Cato is providing us including the centralized management, cloud-based monitoring, and reports matches the cost of the firewall appliances alone. Standard Insurance needed an enterprise network optimized for the hybrid cloud and with strong protection for Internet-borne threats.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 23, 2019

Bryce Mitchell, Director of the NFV, Cloud & National Innovation Labs at Telus, echoed Gedeons comments at Light Reading’s NFV and carrier SDN conference. Mitchell believes the full value of NFV wont be achieved until these services are developed in an API-driven, cloud-native fashion.

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Kentik

MAY 23, 2019

Universal Data Records for the Cloud. One of the challenges we hear about with increasing frequency is centered around networking in the cloud era. As organizations shift applications and workloads to multi-cloud environments and new network overlays appear, many network professionals are losing visibility into their networks.

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Packet Pushers

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Today's Network Break discusses an acquisition by Palo Alto Networks that targets the security of Infrastructure as Code, a souped-up firewall for Microsoft Azure, a new private cloud option from Dell, commentary on the wisdom--or lack thereof--about gathering in person in Barcelona for a wireless convention, and more tech news.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2025

Cato-deployed intrusion prevention system (IPS) signatures in the Cato SASE Cloud Platform block this attack, protecting all Cato-connected edges sites, remote users, and cloud resources. A firewall can achieve this easily and should be a general best practice to reduce the attack surface on your Windows servers.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 4, 2018

Normally, such an objective would be mission impossible for a network built on MPLS and firewall appliances. The existing locations had firewall appliances connected by 100 Mbits/s, layer-2, MPLS connections. The existing firewall appliances were also sucking up resources he didnt have. That’s why the team turned to Cato.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Cloud-based deployments provide many benefits to organizations, such as greater scalability, flexibility, and availability than many organizations can achieve in-house. However, cloud infrastructure also comes with its costs, such as the challenges of securing an organizations on-premises and cloud environments.

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Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

The breadth of network telemetry sources we see in modern networks include the components of network types such as: Cloud infrastructure : Elements specific to the cloud such as service meshes, transit and ingress gateways. Internet and broadband infrastructure : The internet itself that connects the clouds, applications, and users.

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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

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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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. For example, a cloud engineer may be a novice in how encapsulation technologies work.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For most organizations, cloud-based solutions are the only means of supporting a secure, high-performance, and scalable zero trust architecture. As cloud adoption and remote work become more common and cyber threat actors grow more sophisticated, this model is increasingly ineffective.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Its no secret the public cloud is growing. According to Gartner, the global public cloud market is expected to grow 17.3 % this year. And its also no secret that as more applications move to the cloud, significant changes are hosted onto the WAN. And with the cloud, users access applications in and outside of the office.

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