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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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.

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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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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

AUGUST 23, 2016

We recently held a webinar focused on educating network professionals about Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). Today, there are global organizations with 10s of locations, roaming users with business and personal devices, and business applications both inside the local datacenter and in the Cloud.

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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.

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Packet Pushers

APRIL 22, 2024

Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security services including next-gen firewall, CASB, secure web gateway, and others. You can mix and match your SD-WAN and cloud security, but today Rajesh Kari from Palo Alto Networks is here to advocate for the benefits of their single-vendor option.

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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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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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Packet Pushers

MARCH 6, 2023

Cisco and T-Mobile are partnering on 5G gateways, Cisco Webex is getting installed as a feature(?) in Mercedes E-Class cars, and Cisco is buying multi-cloud security startup Valtix. Valtix offers firewalling, IPS, a cloud Web. in Mercedes E-Class cars, and Cisco is buying multi-cloud security startup Valtix.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. The company was moving to SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) in Germany, which required the backhauling approach to be re-engineered. Cato proposed a phased approach Establish IPSEC tunnels from each of the companys firewalls to the Cato Cloud.

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Packet Pushers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Netris is all about bringing that public cloud VPC experience to the network youve already got. Imagine being able to consume your existing network with APIs and being able to stand up VLANs, VXLANs, elastic load balancers, firewalls, Internet gateways, and more the same way you do in the cloud, but on premises.

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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

MARCH 7, 2021

Over the last 3 years of my last gig, I built a little bundle we could deploy with tools across public cloud instances or in our data center. Transactions queueing quickly become the failure point in the application stack, and it usually takes out multiple components along the way — firewalls, service mesh, API gateway, etc.

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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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CATO Networks

MAY 18, 2021

When Gartner published its seminal report on SASE (The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, August 2019), the analyst firm listed the reduction of complexity and costs as one of the top benefits of SASE. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) services in the cloud were used to secure the web traffic.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 9, 2016

By Linda Musthaler, principal analyst, Essential Solutions When I wrote about Cato Networks for Network World a few weeks ago, a colleague told me he thought the solution is interesting, but he couldn’t see why an enterprise would want to connect its entire network to the Cato Cloud. Consider SaaS, or software as a service.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Before Shlomo and Gur cofounded Cato, Shlomo cofounded Check Point Software, creator of the first commercial firewall. Their mission was clear: secure the resources inside the firewall from the wily and dangerous world outside of the firewall. With the Cato Cloud, the network becomes simpler again. Check Point.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. What is a communication hub? This helps deliver predictable network performance. using secure tunnels.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A distributed network architecture is critical to support the increasing use of cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and especially remote and mobile workers. For example, to achieve the functionality of a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), you need to add a discrete appliance at the network edge.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2022

Instant-on for locations and users : WE can connect enterprise customers locations and users to Cato quickly through zero-touch provisioning and let the Cato SASE Cloud handle the rest (route optimization, quality of service, traffic acceleration, and security inspection). No capacity planning is needed.

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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. Next Generation Firewall The NGFW supports the definition of LAN segments as part of the site context.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Cloud-Native Convergence is the Key to Improved Security Cloud migration has a significant impact on corporate IT architecture and security. Organizations need to implement effective cloud security solutions to ensure robust security measures. As a result, corporate security must be not only cloud-delivered but cloud-native.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

The need for 5 Gbps is happening on the most intensive, heavily used network connections within the enterprise, such as connections to data centers, between clouds in multi-cloud deployments, or to clouds housing shared applications, databases, and data stores in hybrid clouds.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Internet access was centralized in the datacenter for its Dutch sites; the Romanian office had its own firewall and Internet breakout. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

While the list of must-know terms is too long to cover in a single blog, here are some to incorporate into your vocabulary as you evaluate how cloud networking can benefit your organization. Firewall as a Service (FwaaS) a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service. Click here for a detailed overview of FwaaS.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Step 4 – Implement strong firewalling. As true Next-Generation Firewalls which are both identity-aware and application-aware, Catos WAN Firewall and Internet Firewall allow our customers to create fine-grained control over all network traffic across the WAN and to the Internet from all Cato sites and mobile users.

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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

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

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). It becomes a gateway to a broader transformation, as the initial project reveals the benefits of consolidating networking and security into a single cloud-native service.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 14, 2022

What such vendors need to do is re-architect these point solutions into a single, converged platform delivered as a cloud service. Traffic processing engines are at the core of many networking and security products including routers, SD-WAN devices, next generation firewalls, secure web gateways, IPS , CASB/DLP, and ZTNA products.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

NaaS is simply the delivery of virtualized network infrastructure and services following the standard cloud subscription business model popularized by SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. Fortunately, cloud-native SD-WAN platforms, like Cato Cloud , enable enterprises to leverage Network as a Service to its full potential.

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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

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.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2015

However, because the enterprise IT environment is undergoing a major transformation driven by Cloud and mobility, some of our core assumptions about enterprise architecture and best practices should be reevaluated. Many enterprises now use Cloud applications to store sensitive data. How did enterprises deal with this issue?

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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. However, the rise of SaaS applications, hybrid work, and global operations has created new challenges for MPLS-based networks, as their once-reliable architecture now fails to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric environments.

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