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Firewall as a Service: Uniting your Network and Security Again

CATO Networks

It really wasnt very long ago when installing a Firewall (FW) or Unified Threat Management (UTM) system at the perimeter was deemed secure enough to protect corporate networks. Compatibility and security policies for multiple cloud and IaaS services. But those very networks have changed dramatically over the past decade.

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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

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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Migrating Apps to the Cloud? Prevent Cloud Sprawl With More Visibility and Control

CATO Networks

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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Blender Case Study: FinTech Drops the Box

CATO Networks

With plans to add more remote branches in the New Year, Blender decided it was time to shed management and maintenance of firewall appliances and move to centralized network provisioning and security. Even if the time required to manage your firewall is just 10 hours a month, thats still 10 hours youve lost, explains Aviv.

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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

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. Things work fineuntil they dont.

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NaaS Meets SD-WAN: What is NaaS anyway and How Will It Impact Your SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Strategy?

CATO Networks

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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New Insight Into SASE from the Recent Gartner® Report on Impact Radar: Communications

CATO Networks

The Gartner report states, While the list of individual capabilities continues to evolve and differ between vendors, serving those capabilities from the cloud edge is non-negotiable and fundamental to SASE. The majority of end users have already transitioned to cloud-based services or are actively doing so now.

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