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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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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

Most vendors claiming a SASE solution host their PoPs in a center provided by Amazon (AWS), Google (GCP), or Microsoft (Azure). The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., It is not where data is managed or secured. But you must consider the architecture of this network.

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

CATO Networks

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

CATO Networks

Deploying a new site for SD-WAN requires an SD-WAN gateway be deployed on-site. SD-WAN vendors that co-locate PoPs in data centers directly connected to the IXPs of the leading IaaS providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can optimize traffic via the shortest and fastest path.

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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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Is SD-WAN Really Dead?

CATO Networks

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. Native cloud connectivity within the PoPs connects IaaS and SaaS resources.

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