CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Almost 15 years later, the comparison applies perfectly to the state of network security. So, after all the running weve done in the 2010s, where is network security headed in 2020? What WAN security solutions do enterprises need to protect their networks as we kick off the decade?

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CATO Networks

MAY 20, 2020

Since the release of Gartners Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) last April, ZTNA has been one of the biggest buzzwords in network security, and for good reason. A policy of zero trust helps enterprises limit exposure to the myriad of threats facing the modern network. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2023

SASE = SD-WAN + SSE. It identifies two elements that underpin SASE , namely the network access technology ( SD-WAN ) and secure internet access ( Security Service Edge (SSE) ). The East-West WAN traffic visibility gap : SASE converges two separate disciplines: the Wide Area Network and Network Security.

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CATO Networks

MAY 31, 2017

We recently surveyed 350 IT professionals to learn about how their WAN requirements are evolving with the emergence of SD-WAN s. Our thesis was as businesses embrace clouds and hybrid clouds, a new set of WAN requirements being to emerge. What impact, if any, will SD-WANs have for network security?

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CATO Networks

JULY 15, 2020

Lets analyze SD-WANs completeness according to this definition. SD-WAN delivers various benefits compared to legacy WANs, mainly offering enterprises cost optimization, agility, and simplicity. Dynamic load sharing of traffic across multiple WAN connections, based on corporate defined policies. So, Whats Missing?

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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. These drivers, though, also come with baggage: the reassessment of todays corporate security model. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

When it comes to the enterprise network, decisions need to be made with cost, performance, security, and future plans in mind. Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

He has more than 20 years of experience in network security and information management, and specializes in enterprise infrastructure, security and project management. Challenge The WAN for J.s Challenge The WAN for J.s company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2023

Corporate networks are rapidly becoming more complex and distributed. With the growth of cloud computing, remote work, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT), companies have users and IT assets everywhere, requiring connectivity. SD-WAN Best Practices A poorly implemented SD-WAN poses significant risk to the organization.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2022

The SD-WAN contract renewal period is an ideal time to review whether SD-WAN fits into your future plans. While SD-WAN is a powerful and cost-effective replacement for MPLS , enterprises need to make sure it answers their evolving needs, like cloud infrastructure, mitigating cyber risks, and enabling remote access from anywhere.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What is cloud networking? Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. It’s an umbrella term for the devices and strategies that connect all variations of on-premise, edge, and cloud-based services.

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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). At the beginning of this webinar, we asked the audience what is your biggest challenge running distributed network security today?

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. SD-WAN: The Toddler Years When SD-WAN was born, there was much to love.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2017

Companies should not be shortsighted when upgrading their WANs. Its not just about cutting the cost of their existing MPLS-based WANs. Its also about looking forward and addressing the bigger challenges facing business around the cloud, mobility and more. The WAN has not kept up with those changes.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2016

Merely 5 years later, the enterprise infrastructure landscape evolved again with the increased usage of public Cloud applications (SaaS). Furthermore, mobile users directly accessed Cloud applications without going through the firewall at all. Cloud and mobility cannot be solved with the current firewall appliance form factor.

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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. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2017

Keep your edge by beefing up your SD-WAN knowledge. Over the next month or so, weve put together a jam-packed schedule of SD-WAN webinars to help combat the tech fatigue of the lazy days of summer. Mobility, cloud access, Internet security these and more form the shape of todays business. Click here to reserve your seat.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

The widespread adoption of Software-Defined Wide-Area-Network ( SD-WAN ) in recent years has caused many to wonder whether WAN optimization is still necessary. More specifically, t he rise of WAN optimization began around 2004 and addressed the limitations of the limited capacity of costly MPLS and leased line connections.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They are moving their datacenters to the cloud, using more and more SaaS products, and moving their networking ( SD-WAN ) and security ( FWaaS ) to cloud-based solutions. This is why enterprises increasingly turn to service providers and the cloud to run compute, storage, networking, and security.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 24, 2022

When SD-WAN emerged a decade ago, it quickly became a viable and cost-effective solution to MPLS. But today, enterprises have more advanced network and security needs , and IT leaders are realizing that SD-WAN doesnt address them. With SD-WAN, IT teams are required to add additional appliances, like NGFW, IPS and SWG.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Impact of the Dissolved Perimeter The traffic patterns driving SD-WAN adoption change how companies protect their users and data.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The WAN is evolving after years of stagnation, and SD-WAN is all the rage. What is the promise driving SD-WAN? In short, SD-WAN aims to remove the constraints of legacy connectivity technologies, namely MPLS and the unmanaged public Internet , ushering a new age of flexible, resilient and secure networks.

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Kentik

JUNE 14, 2023

Sensors were inoperable from the firefight, and finding anything in the gaseous cloud was near impossible. Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. I recently had the privilege of attending the WAN and AWS Summits in London. In other words, both events were all about cloud networking.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 9, 2018

Help us find out and participate in our recently launched 2018 State of the WAN survey. The survey seeks to understand the state of the todays business networks. We look at general networking and security trends impacting business. We dig into the drivers and adoption of SD-WAN, the cloud, mobility and more.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS also doesnt address cloud or mobile traffic, which is a major issue for enterprises. Security policies for MPLS based networks need to be managed at each site and the various appliances must be continuously updated and upgraded. Check that the SD-WAN can also connect cloud datacenters, cloud applications, and mobile users.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Companies that are accustomed to the reliability and affordability of high-performance connectivity in North America and Europe might be challenged by WAN issues as they venture into less developed regions. Data and application security also are critically important. Cloud networks revolutionize global connectivity.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2023

SD-WAN has enabled new technology opportunities for businesses. But not all organizations have adopted SD-WAN in the same manner or are having the same SD-WAN experience. As the market gravitates away from SD-WAN towards SASE , research and consulting firm EMA analyzed how businesses are managing this transition to SASE.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 11, 2016

We have written in the past about the trombone effect or the implications of traffic backhauling on network security and the user experience. Backhauling is a way a network team is solving a security problem: providing secure internet access for all locations. Which approach is better?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. Below are valuable on-demand webinars that answer crucial questions about growing SD-WAN technology. Each webinar provides insight into different SD-WAN topics for IT leaders to consider.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 14, 2023

With the transition to the cloud and remote work, some organizations are undervaluing network security. However, network vulnerabilities and threats still require attention. Enterprises should not forgo the core capabilities required to secure the network from security threats.

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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. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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