CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2022

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is a new enterprise architecture technology that converges all network and security needs, by design. By replacing all point solutions, SASE provides a unified, global and cloud-based network that supports all edges. This blog post is based on the e-book 8 SASE Drivers for Modern Enterprises .

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CATO Networks

MARCH 13, 2023

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is a new architecture that converges networking and security into cloud-native, globally available service offerings. Security inspection and policy enforcement is performed at the cloud edge, instead of backhauling all traffic to a centralized data center for inspection.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

SD-WAN provides big advancements in connecting branch locations into central data centers in a cost-effective manner. It is the networking equivalent of a killer application that allows companies to use a variety of transport mechanisms besides MPLS and to steer traffic according to business priorities.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2022

Core Challenges: Expanding cyber threat landscape Securing Work-from-anywhere (WFA) Improper employee usage The Cato SASE Approach to Rapid Digital Transformation Its easy for most organizations to take a traditional approach to these challenges by looking for point solutions or creative chaining of technologies to create a bundled solution.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

At Cato Networks, we also feel the need for speed, and while were not breaking the sound barrier at 30,000 feet, we did just break the SASE speed barrier (again!). Earlier last month, we announced that Cato reached a new SASE throughput record , achieving 5 Gbps on a single encrypted tunnel with all security inspections fully enabled.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2022

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. SASE, the Next Step After SD-WAN SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) provides value in areas where SD-WAN lacks.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 2, 2022

Project #1: Migrating MPLS or SD-WAN to SASE Many organizations have replaced their MPLS with SD-WAN, or are in the process of doing so. SD-WAN emerged a few decades ago as a cost-effective replacement to MPLS, because it answers MPLS constraints like capacity, cost and lack of flexibility.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

Last December, Network World published a thoughtful guide outlining the questions IT organizations should be asking when evaluating SASE platforms. It was an essential list that should be included in any SASE evaluation. In short, Cato provides all of the core SASE capabilities identified by NWW. If not, where are the gaps?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In its recent Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019, Gartner recognized Cato Networks as a Sample Vendor in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) category. Below is the verbatim text of the SASE section from the Gartner report. The legacy data center should no longer be considered the center of network architectures.

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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. Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) The same is true for cloud connections.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

This blog post breaks down the considerations and requirements of strategic change, while comparing two courses of action – transforming early or waiting for the last minute – and proposes a plan for gradual adoption of SASE. Rising MPLS Bandwidth Costs MPLS is expensive and eats up a large portion of IT spend.

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CATO Networks

JULY 7, 2022

In some cases, it might be an MPLS network, which is no longer suitable (or affordable) for the modern digital business. This calls for a SASE service built on a global private backbone. Why a Global SASE Service? Today, its the largest private SASE network spanning 70+ PoPs worldwide.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). It would give us even more more security, better remote access, and faster deployment.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

By understanding the strengths and limitations of these two technologies you can best understand how they should be deployed and where secure access service edge (SASE) fits into the picture. SD-WAN eliminates the trombone effect where traffic is backhauled through the corporate data center for security inspection.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

It solved an urgent problem – users wanted direct internet access from anywhere without the need to backhaul to corporate VPN concentrators appliances or data center firewalls. Enterprises had to maintain their MPLS networks, SD-WANs, and network firewalls and layer on top of them the SWG, CASB, and ZTNA proxies.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The corporate WAN connects an organizations distributed branch locations, data center, cloud-based infrastructure, and remote workers. As the WAN expands to include SaaS applications and cloud data centers, managing this environment becomes more challenging. This reduces the cost and complexity of network management.

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CATO Networks

JULY 25, 2023

Security leaders today are facing a number of challenges, including a rise in the number of breaches, a need to accommodate remote work and networking requirements to replace MPLS networks. Cato SSE 360 is the security pillar of Catos SASE cloud, providing total visibility, optimization and control. Lets delve into each one.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

What Others Wont Tell You About MPLS | Get The eBook Lets pause here and look at the facts On November 16th, 2021, Riverbed Technology announced filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Their SASE Cloud provider takes care of the network, hires the right personnel, maintains, patches, and updates everything according to the industrys best practices.

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CATO Networks

JULY 28, 2019

Areas that will be in focus are reducing reliance on MPLS in favor of internet access, automation, different business models/sourcing options and taking advantage of open standards where possible. From MPLS to Internet and routers to SD-WAN The network of the future will reduce its reliance on MPLS in favor of Internet with SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

Since SASEs introduction, many networking and security vendors have rushed to capitalize on the market by partnering with other providers to include cloud backbones as part of their SASE offerings. But SASE isnt just a bunch of features in appliances managed from the cloud. But you must consider the architecture of this network.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Improve Middle Mile Performance When MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) was the de facto WAN connectivity standard, enterprises often had a reliable, albeit expensive and inflexible, middle mile connection they could count on for enterprise-grade connectivity. The solution? This is exactly what Cato Cloud was purpose-built to do.

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