CATO Networks

MARCH 14, 2021

Thats a tall order as organizations undertake the simultaneous processes of digital transformation and network evolution. In addition to legacy data centers, enterprises now have extensive assets in the cloud as well as in branch and remote offices and, increasingly, in workers own homes.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While BCP is a company-wide effort, IT plays an especially important role in maintaining business operations, with the task of ensuring redundancy measures and backup for data centers in case of an outage. Can you provide access to data and applications according to corporate security policies during an outage?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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. This requires a shift in our security models. We can no longer assume that the WAN is secure.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To establish their facilities, companies need reliable and high-performance network connectivity to global data centers both in-region and out-of-region. The new model to meet the networking needs of globally distributed enterprises is a cloud network, also known as software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ) as a service.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SASEs built-in SD-WAN functionality offers network optimization, while the integrated security stack including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more secures traffic over the corporate WAN.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cato SSE 360: Finally, SSE with Total Visibility and Control | Whitepaper A Close Look at Catos Networking Policy Catos SASE Cloud is comprised of over 75 (and growing) top-tier data center locations, each connected with multiple tier 1 ISP connections forming Catos global private backbone.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Delivering DIA locally will require the deployment of IPS, malware protection, next-generation firewall (NGFW) and other advanced security services at each site or, in the regional hubs, increasing costs and complexity. Cato has also built a full network security stack directly into its global 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

AUGUST 25, 2022

Network responses then flow back through the same stack and travel from the data center to the remote user. If you are in a remote office, your organization may not be able to afford a stack of security appliances (firewall, secure web gateway or SWG , etc.) Why does this compromise exist? in your office.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops. Network security is built into the Cato Cloud.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Enhancing Your Enterprise Network Security Strategy | Webinar Legacy Firewall Security Solutions Cant Keep Up Zero-day threat detection is essential for protecting against modern cyber threats, but it is also resource-intensive.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Business Agility Traditional networks, built on legacy technologies like MPLS, are rigid and slow to adapt to changing business needs. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile. Here are four key ways SASE transformation touches every part of the business.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For several years now, the network evolution spotlight has been on SD-WAN , and rightfully so. SD-WAN provides big advancements in connecting branch locations into central data centers in a cost-effective manner. This means the need for a reliable, well performing network backbone is left unaddressed by SD-WAN appliances alone.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 17, 2023

Remote Work Creates New Security Needs The corporate workforce has, historically, been tethered to office configurations that made it easier to provide secure access to corporate applications. Traditional perimeter-based network security solutions would inspect and filter traffic before it passed through the network boundary.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

The need for 5 Gbps is happening on the most intensive, heavily used network connections within the enterprise, such as connections to data centers, between clouds in multi-cloud deployments, or to clouds housing shared applications, databases, and data stores in hybrid clouds.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 4, 2016

NFV infrastructure involves a management and orchestration layer that determines which services should be activated for a customer, and VNFs (virtual network functions) that represent the services themselves. In the context of firewalls, for example, these are virtual appliances from companies like Fortinet and Cisco.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2022

When Gartner introduced SASE in the 2019 report, The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud , the analyst firm highlighted convergence of network and network security services as the main architectural attribute of SASE. The end-customers data center footprint is reduced or eliminated for key technologies.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Secure Access Service Edge “ Analysis By: Joe Skorupa; Neil MacDonald Definition: The secure access service edge (SASE) are emerging converged offerings combining WAN capabilities with network security functions (such as secure web gateway, CASB and SDP) to support the needs of digital enterprises.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Internet VPNs also require physical appliances, such as routers and firewalls, to be installed and maintained at each location in the enterprise network. This provides the most basic security needed to send traffic over a public network.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, most organizations are not selecting a single cloud provider to augment or replace their existing on-prem data centers. The heterogeneity of an organizations cloud deployment can make it complex to develop firewall security rules and enforce consistent security policies across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Simplicity : Static routing manages dynamic routing protocols, especially for smaller or less complex networks. Security : Static routes can enhance network security, reducing the risk of unauthorized access by limiting routing updates and controlling which paths data can take. How do I prepare for CCNP?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In many cases, organizations are finding that their existing security architecture which was designed to secure an IT infrastructure that is mostly or wholly on-premises is not up to the task of meeting the security requirements and business needs of the modern, digital enterprise.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Now companies needed a way to bring advanced security to wherever resources resided, in the cloud or the private data center, and wherever users worked, in the office, at home, or on the road, and do all of that without compromising performance. Advanced Security SD-WAN lacks the necessary security to protect branch offices.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

In addition to network improvements, Cato also provides a fully managed suite of enterprise-grade and agile network security capabilities directly built into the Cato Global Private Backbone. Our customers frequently report 10x-30x improvement in file download speeds.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2019

Typically, they have the in-house expertise to manage their existing wide area network and feel comfortable adapting to the new technologies of the SD-WAN. Security is often added to the solution via service-insertion or service-chaining. Even simple changes, like a firewall rule, could take days to be completed.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Every office with DIA now requires the full range of security services including next generation firewalls, anti-malware, URL filtering, IDS/IPS, sandboxing and more. This is what Networking + Security as a Service (N+SaaS) is all about.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

For example, adding deep packet inspection of SSL content to stateful firewalls can increase loads on firewalls by 10x. Create a distributed multitenant software stack for networking and security services and overlay them on a carrier-grade backbone. We call this the Network Function Cloudification (NFCL) fabric.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

By contrast, The Cato SASE Cloud is the world’sfirst cloud-native SASEplatform , converging SD-WAN and networksecurity in thecloud.Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud data centers, into a global and secure, cloud-native network service.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 10, 2023

Most IT leaders are aware that in this era of constant digital change, businesses must make room for greater cloud migration, rising remote work demands and new security threats. It also no longer makes sense for businesses to backhaul internet traffic though data center firewalls.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

SD-WAN eliminates the trombone effect where traffic is backhauled through the corporate data center for security inspection. Improved WAN Agility: SD-WAN separates the network from the underlying transport, letting IT select the last-mile connection xDSL, fiber, and 3G/4G. Theres no antimalware or IPS built into SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In our recent survey of more than 700 networking, security, and IT executives and professionals from around the globe, 43% of respondents indicated that latency (along with cost of buying and managing appliances) was their number one WAN challenge. We connected offices and headquarters, factories and data centers.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 21, 2017

From telcos like BT and CenturyLink, to financial services such as MasterCard, to tech companies like Amazon, SAP, and more, we asked 30 of our peers one question: What are your 2018 networking predictions? But respondents (hailing from network, data center, and security operations teams) surfaced five main predictions for the year ahead.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

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NW Kings

JANUARY 30, 2025

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