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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

By that I mean, traffic goes to the SASE solution providers PoPs to be forwarded to SaaS or IaaS applications or the Internet. Catos cloud-native software provides global routing optimization, self-healing capabilities, WAN optimization for maximum end-to-end throughput, and full encryption for all traffic traversing the network.

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Types of Remote Access Technologies for Enterprises

CATO Networks

With a VPN, all communication between the user and the VPN is encrypted. The encryption process takes time, and depending on the type of encryption used, this may add noticeable latency to Internet communications.

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

CATO Networks

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. By using service insertion or service chaining, separate security services such as firewalls and IPS are inserted into the data flow.

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How to Buy SASE: Cato Answers Network World’s 18 Essential Questions

CATO Networks

Current security services include firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) , secure web gateway with URL filtering ( SWG ), standard and next-generation anti-malware (NGAM), IPS-as-a-Service (IPS), and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) , and a Managed Threat Detection and Response (MDR) service. How is sensitive data handled?

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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. With Catos SASE platform, branches send data along encrypted tunnels across Internet last miles to the nearest PoP.

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New World, New Thinking: Why “The Box” Has Got To Go

CATO Networks

In the context of firewalls, for example, these are virtual appliances from companies like Fortinet and Cisco. The physical network of NSaaS PoPs communicates over encrypted tunnels using multiple carriers. The box remains, and it still needs to be managed as a single instance, be configured, upgraded and patched.

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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

This is a cloud building block that belongs to the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) domain and involves many important design decisions. Using hosted solutions to develop event streaming applications is just as hard as self-managing Kafka. Most hosted solutions ask the user to provide a VPC.

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