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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.

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What You Don’t Need from an SD-WAN Vendor

CATO Networks

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. By using service insertion or service chaining, separate security services such as firewalls and IPS are inserted into the data flow.

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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

By that I mean, traffic goes to the SASE solution providers PoPs to be forwarded to SaaS or IaaS applications or the Internet. Cato Uses Multiple Cloud Optimization Techniques Cato natively supports cloud datacenters (IaaS) and cloud applications (SaaS) resources without additional configuration, complexity, or point solutions.

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New World, New Thinking: Why “The Box” Has Got To Go

CATO Networks

In the context of firewalls, for example, these are virtual appliances from companies like Fortinet and Cisco. Googles map showing its process hosting sites looks like a map showing the major global population centers. Cloud data centers are core elements of NSaaS. How many places are needed?

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The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as Described in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019

CATO Networks

The legacy data center should no longer be considered the center of network architectures. Users, sensitive data, applications and access requirements will be everywhere. It isnt sufficient to offer a SASE service built solely on a hyperscale providers limited number of points of presence.

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

CATO Networks

Next generation firewalls (NGFW), unified threat management systems (UTM), secure web gateway (SWG) and cloud access security broker (CASB) services all attempt to fill the need for visibility, control and data security for cloud-based applications. Now consider how Cato can address these SaaS visibility and control issues.

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The Path of a Packet in Cato’s SASE Architecture

CATO Networks

Current services include a next-gen firewall/VPN, Secure Web Gateway, Advanced Threat Prevention, Cloud and Mobile Access Protection, and a Managed Threat Detection and Response (MDR) service.

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