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Network Firewalls Are Still Vital in the Era of the Cloud

CATO Networks

However, network firewalls are still a relevant and vital security solution in the era of the cloud. Cloud deployments differ significantly from traditional, on-prem data centers. As a result, network firewalls need to be able to provide protection wherever a device is located.

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How to Solve the Cloud vs On-Premise Security Dilemma

CATO Networks

Organizations can face challenges moving all their security to the Cloud, particularly when dealing with internal traffic segmentation (East-West traffic protection), legacy data center applications that cant be moved to the cloud, and regulatory issues (especially in Finance and Government sectors). See Figure 1 below.

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CCNA: IP Routing

The Network DNA

Routing is performed by routers, firewalls, multi-layer switches and gateways. An administrator configures default gateway configuration manually while configuring the system on the LAN or it can be configured automatically using the DHCP protocol. This needs to be unique in a network to avoid any unpredictable behavior.

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Cascaded Lag: The Cumulative Impact of Latency on Applications and User Experience

Kentik

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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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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Strategies for Managing Network Traffic from a Remote Workforce

Kentik

This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). The richest data sources are from the VPN devices or firewalls. Leading VPN solutions also export performance data. Kentik can ingest all three sources as traffic data.

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Why Traditional NGFWs Fail to Meet Today’s Business Needs

CATO Networks

Many companies have spent significant time and resources designing and implementing security architectures around traditional next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) and other security solutions. With the evolution of corporate networks, traditional LAN-focused security models are no longer effective.

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