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 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

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. And yet, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa , “When businesses decide to move to the cloud, the network tends to be an afterthought.”

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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. Office 365, Dropbox or Salesforce, etc.)

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2017

In a 2016 Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection report , Gartner Analyst Jeremy DHoinne initiated the emerging category of Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). The Cato Cloud converges WAN Optimization , SD-WAN , a global SLA-backed backbone and network security ( FWaaS ) – into a single cloud service.

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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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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2016

About 10 years ago, a small startup, Palo Alto Networks, innovated the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). Existing enterprise firewalls relied on the use of specific ports to apply application security rules. Furthermore, mobile users directly accessed Cloud applications without going through the firewall at all.

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2016

In new research published by Gartner on July 6th, Analyst Jeremy DHoinne introduced a new technology segment: Firewall-as-a-Service ( FWaaS ). As the name suggests, the segment is focused on the migration of on-premise firewalls to the Cloud.

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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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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

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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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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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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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CATO Networks

JULY 21, 2016

Next Generation Firewalls and UTMs have been the cornerstone of network security for the past 20 years. IT teams are also seeing an increasing pressure to allow Direct Internet Access at branch locations, which is further driving the need to deploy distributed security solutions.

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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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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. One area with significant room for improvement is firewall management. However, the time spent configuring and managing firewalls could also be spent on other valuable security tasks as well.

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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A growing percentage of Internet traffic is protected by encryption. While estimates vary, most agree that at least 80% of Internet traffic uses SSL/TLS to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of the data being transmitted. Cloud-Native Design: SASE points of presence (PoPs) are built with cloud-native software.

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AWS Architecture

JANUARY 13, 2025

Business use case Several end customers in the manufacturing sector mandated the exchange of EDI documents through the AS2 protocol over the internet. Why the cloud? The signed and encrypted booking fact EDI is sent as an inbound HTTP AS2 payload to Transfer Family through the internet. Why Transfer Family and AS2?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We were a bit surprised to find out that secure, direct Internet access was the top driver. We expected other drivers, such as MPLS cost reduction, eliminating bandwidth constraints, or optimizing cloud access, to be at the top of the list. Secure, Direct Internet Access: SD-WANs Self-Made Headache?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. All enterprise locations were backhauling traffic over the internet to a datacenter that hosts an internal SAP instance. Cato proposed a phased approach Establish IPSEC tunnels from each of the companys firewalls to the Cato 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. Nor does edge SD-WAN help.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2017

IT professionals have better things to do than worry about configuring granular firewall rules or racing to patch systems before they fall victim to the new WannaCrypt breakout. Weve been saying that by converging networking and security into the cloud, Cato eliminates those headaches. Cato takes care of the infrastructure for you.

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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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Now, as the IT manager at Cato, Ive been using Cato Cloud to run Catos internal network. Below are some of my tips and observations for how Ive gotten the most of being out of the box with this cloud-based security and networking service. When I got to Cato, I fell in love with Cato Clouds mobile capabilities. Bye, bye VPN.

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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

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

MAY 6, 2018

Cloud computing has been an integral part of the modern enterprise for some time. No longer an emerging technology, cloud computing is now used in everything from applications, storage, and networking. With vendors like Amazon AWS and applications like Office 365, the cloud computing market is projected to reach $411B by 2020.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. In reality, what the carriers could use, is a whole new fabric built for the cloud-centric enterprise and driven by cloud economics to reduce costs and maximize customer value delivery. VNFs) in the cloud. At a premium cost. And thats not all.

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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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