CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Theres been no good approach to building an Azure SD-WAN until now. Nor does edge SD-WAN help. Lets see how.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Last month, analyst Jim Metzler and I joined together on a webinar to discuss the current state of the WAN. Jim shared research from his recent study into the current drivers and inhibitors for WAN transformation and the deployment of SD-WAN. Traditional WANs were never designed to handle the dissolving perimeter.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 10, 2018

SD-WAN is a flexible solution that integrates low-cost Internet transports into a virtual WAN connection. Utilizing multiple links and additional features such as load balancing, and real-time monitoring of circuit health and performance, SD-WAN can achieve the required high availability todays enterprises demand.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos. They had the vision and the track record.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2017

WAN Transformation: SD-WAN Cost and ROI Analysis Its no secret that traditional wide area networks (WANs) have to change. But cost reductions, in particular, that are often promised with the successor to traditional WANs, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), is often misleading.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Cato Cloud a 2017 Internet Telephony SD-WAN Excellence Award. Congratulations to Cato Networks for receiving a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Excellence Award, said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. The post TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership appeared first on Cato Networks.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). According to a July 2017 report from market-research firm IDC , SD-WAN adoption is seeing remarkable growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud. MPLS: Reliable, But Comes with a Price The popularity of MPLS deployments in corporate WAN infrastructures comes from its predictability.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

Many organizations today are choosing to migrate to SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), because it can eliminate the challenges of MPLS networks. SD-WAN brings software defined networking (SDN) to the WAN, improving WAN management and increasing cost savings when compared against MPLS.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Impact of the Dissolved Perimeter The traffic patterns driving SD-WAN adoption change how companies protect their users and data.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. Below are valuable on-demand webinars that answer crucial questions about growing SD-WAN technology. Each webinar provides insight into different SD-WAN topics for IT leaders to consider.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In a recent webinar we conducted at Cato , we asked the audience a poll question: What is the primary driver for your SD-WAN project? Why is security such a big deal with SD-WAN? Because SD-WAN is a code name for MPLS WAN transformation project. Because SD-WAN is a code name for MPLS WAN transformation project.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Luckily, SD-WAN can be configured to prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and then effectively steer it over the most efficient route. Performance MPLS was the top dog in enterprise WAN before cloud-computing and mobile smart devices exploded in popularity.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity. Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 28, 2025

Lateral traffic over the WAN that would leverage the threat actor for the ransomware Cato FWaaS : protects users from accessing malicious websites (such as the malware category) where they can accidentally download a malicious payload that could contain ransomware. Double extortion to exfiltrate data before encrypting target systems.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Weve also extended Cato Cloud datacenter support with a new SD-WAN device, the Cato Socket X1700. With traditional enterprises, all edge appliances needed for connectivity, from SD-WAN appliances to supporting security devices, must be made redundant. But as so many of you have told us, delivering an always-on network is far from easy.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

But whats particularly interesting for anyone moving away from a global MPLS network or otherwise looking at WAN transformation is the impact NaaS will have on evolving the enterprise backbone. NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. But SASE alone cant replace MPLS.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 15, 2017

Unless you were living under a rock, you probably heard about SD-WAN and its promise to transform enterprise networking as we know it. So, to SD-WAN or to MPLS? SD-WAN Edge Appliances: Not Quite the Answer This is where SD-WAN comes to play. Here is what you need to consider.

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Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

Protecting Availability for Internet-based WAN Sites. SD-WAN is one of 2017’s hottest networking technologies. Last week at Cisco Live was no exception; Cisco’s $610M acquisition of Viptela in May made for a lot of SD-WAN buzz. For enterprises, SD-WAN makes a lot of sense.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 3, 2019

VPNs encapsulate data and encrypt the data using an algorithm contained within the transmission protocol. VPN traffic is encrypted and decrypted at the transmission and receiving ends of the connection. VPNs can also be set up using L2TP/IPsec protocols, which proves to have much stronger encryption than PPTP.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As the WAN is the ingress and egress point of corporate networks, securing it is vital to mitigating risk and improving security posture. These fundamental changes in how we do business demand a new approach to WAN security. These fundamental changes in how we do business demand a new approach to WAN security. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One sticking point has always been the branch network stack: deploying, configuring, managing, and retrieving the router, firewall, WAN optimizer, etc., Cloud Stack Benefits the Enterprise: Freedom and Agility People want a lot out of their SD-WAN solution: routing, firewalling, and WAN optimization, for example.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Like AdRoll, many modern enterprises are learning that the scalability, security, and reliability of cloud-based SD-WAN make it an ideal VPN alternative. So, what makes SD-WAN such an attractive VPN replacement? VPN appliances themselves also have limited bandwidth, which can lead to these appliances becoming WAN bottlenecks.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2017

Cato SD-WAN is First to Converge Global Networking and Advanced Security Services Cato introduced today a context-aware Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) as part of its Cato Cloud secure SD-WAN service. Cato IPS is the first to be integrated with a global SD-WAN service , bringing context-aware protection to users everywhere.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

SD-WANs promise to address the problem, of course, but even as an SD-WAN provider we can tell you that SD-WANs may not be right choice for everyone. Its why we put together a checklist (humbly called The Ultimate Checklist) for figuring out whether you should stick with MPLS or consider an SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2024

Security Settings Since Cato is a complete SASE solution, it includes such features as firewall-as-a-service, intrusion protection, anti-malware, and application control to name a few. Machine learning then uses this information to match different features of both harmless and malicious files.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Heres a run down and summary of those IoT security best practices for easy reference from some of the top sites and how cloud-based SD-WAN, such as Cato Cloud , can help. Build around secure hardware: If COGS permits, build security features such as secure and encrypted storage, or boot functionality based on Trusted Platform Module (TPM).

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CATO Networks

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. The core value proposition of SD-WAN is the use of a standard, low-cost Internet link to augment an expensive managed, low-latency and guaranteed capacity MPLS link.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

In many infrastructures, the inflection points are at the network edge, where VPN gateways authenticate and encrypt remote-access traffic. This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). The richest data sources are from the VPN devices or firewalls.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. 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. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

One would provide the SD-WAN and security, another the global private backbone, and perhaps a third-will deliver remote access. By spanning all edges, applications, and traffic flows, SASE provides: Support for existing east-west traffic (such as WAN, site-to-site, VoIP, RDP, to on-premise apps, etc.),

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fortunately for enterprises, cloud-based SD-WAN solves this problem by making secure, monitored, and policy-enforced WAN connectivity possible across the globe, on-prem and in the cloud, without sacrificing performance. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

For SD-WAN s, the Internet has been their weakness. The lack of a global, SLA-backed backbone leaves SD-WANs unable to provide the consistent, predictable transport needed by real-time service and business-critical applications. Read SD-WAN Experts blog for more information.) The first such service is the Cato Cloud.

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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. SASE solutions use DPI to support its integrated security functions.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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