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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Unmasking Hellcat – Not Your Average Ransomware Gang

CATO Networks

Such access could compromise student records, financial systems, and critical operational data, potentially leading to severe reputational damage and legal consequences for the institution. Attacks targeting firewalls and critical infrastructure, as evidenced in the attacks against a U.S. Sale of root access for U.S. billion USD.

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MPLS, SD-WAN and Network Security

CATO Networks

There are several interesting anecdotes by the financial services customers (Scott Smith and D.V.) The private nature of MPLS allowed an organization to not encrypt MPLS traffic, a big benefit in terms of encryption key management and required CPE (customer premise equipment) capabilities. Is MPLS Secure? We couldnt agree more.

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Beyond the Thin Branch: Move Network Functions to Cloud, Says Leading Analyst

CATO Networks

Retailers, financial services firms, and other kinds of companies want to become more agile in their branch strategies: be able to light up, move, and shut down branches quickly and easily. One sticking point has always been the branch network stack: deploying, configuring, managing, and retrieving the router, firewall, WAN optimizer, etc.,

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The 5 Most Common Cyber Threats in Schools

Akins IT

The things that could happen are anything from stolen personal data to financial manipulation. Ransomware Ransomware encrypts the files on the computer so that the user can't get them. The malware file has scripts that help it find and encrypt the files in its target area. This way, the school would not be able to get it.

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The Top 4 Industry 4.0 Challenges and How SASE Helps Manufacturers Overcome Them 

CATO Networks

3: High Operational Costs Disparate network and security point solutions create a financial and operational burden. Cato SASE Cloud Platform provides: SLA-Backed Global Private Backbone , including Points of Presence (PoPs) in remote and rural locations, providing fully encrypted and optimized connectivity. investments.

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Eye-Opening Results from Forrester’s Cato SASE Total Economic Impact Report

CATO Networks

We decided it was time to quantify Cato SASEs real-world financial benefit with a recognized, well-structured methodology, so we commissioned a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study with the consulting arm of the leading analyst firm Forrester. Overall, respondents describe a transformative, before/after experience. with 40 sites across the U.S.,

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Solving the Challenges of SD-WAN Security with Cloud-Native

CATO Networks

However, theres no encryption on MPLS circuits and any security features like traffic inspection, IPS (Intrusion Prevention System), and anti-malware have to be layered in separately. Appliance-based SD-WAN generally offers encryption, solving one of the problems associated with MPLS, but its effectively the same story after that.

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