CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Double Extortion: Double extortion ransomware both steals and encrypts sensitive and valuable data on an infected system. Lateral Movement: Ransomware rarely immediately lands on a device containing the high-value data that it plans to encrypt. A secure web gateway (SWG) can block browsing to dangerous sites and malicious downloads.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Convergence enables Cato to collapse multiple security solutions such as a next-generation firewall, secure web gateway, anti-malware, and IPS into a cloud service that enforces a unified policy across all corporate locations, users and data. Other features include WAN traffic protection and Internet traffic protection.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

You can continue to rely on your centralized security gateway, backhauling traffic from branch office inspection by the gateway before sending the traffic across the Internet to Azure. You can even improve the connection between the gateway and Azure with a premium connectivity service, such as Azure ExpressRoute.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Cloudflare has extensive support for Websockets across our network as well as in our AI Gateway. Privacy and security also come standard: all video and audio traffic that passes through Cloudflare Calls is encrypted by default.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

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. Companies need encrypted, secure high throughput between their clouds or to the central data centers in their hybrid deployments.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network elements, including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global, encrypted and optimized SD-WAN in the cloud. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a set of security services to protect all traffic at all times.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Any SD-WAN should build a virtual overlay of encrypted tunnels between locations. The SD-WAN make configuring this mesh of tunnels simple, managing the encryption keys, creating the tunnels, and automating their full mesh setup. The most common way to deliver threat protection at a branch is to deploy a local firewall or UTM appliance.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

Visibility Solutions such as Secure Web Gateways in the Cloud don’t provide visibility to the WAN. Both Secure Web Gateways and physical or virtual firewalls deployed in the cloud also don’t allow the ability to connect mobile users back to the office. Thus, a separate firewall solution is required for the WAN.

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Network Engineering

AUGUST 19, 2020

37)SE1 no service timestamps log datetime msec no service timestamps debug datetime msec no service password-encryption ! ip default-gateway 10.0.0.2 So here's the very basic switch config Current configuration : 2717 bytes ! version 12.2(37)SE1 hostname c3560g ! ! ! ip dhcp excluded-address 10.0.0.0 ip dhcp excluded-address 10.0.10.0

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

A combination of an encrypted software-defined overlay across all backbones, application-aware routing, and the gathering of latency and loss statistics from each backbone allows the UberNet to select the optimum route network any application at anytime. The competition among backbone suppliers and the nature of IP minimizes costs.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Most SD-WAN solutions are encrypted SSL or IPsec tunnels, but new attack vectors may present themselves with data going over the air instead of over wires. Visibility -- Historically enterprise networks had a router/firewall connected to the WAN as a gateway. Security -- 5G will introduce new security concerns.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution.

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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. According to Gartner (that coined the term), SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

The alternative is to let mobile users connect directly to the cloud and deploy new cloud-based security solutions, such as secure Web gateways or secure access security brokers (CASB), that intercept connections before they reach the cloud. Shifting to cloud-based Web gateways and CASBs has its own overhead as well.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

Cato provides a full network security stack, including a next generation firewall, secure web gateway, anti-malware and IPS built into the SLA-backed backbone. Cato provides consistent and predictable global connectivity at an affordable price, which allows customers to use high quality Internet last mile and the Cato Cloud to replace MPLS.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., 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. It is not where data is managed or secured.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 31, 2023

This includes measures such as risk management, incident detection and response, regular security assessments, and encryption of sensitive data. It requires organizations to implement both organizational and technical measures to safeguard their networks and information systems.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2020

The same group that was behind a series of attacks on companies using sophisticated malware that encrypts files, known as Sodinokibi or REvil. Both businesses experienced disruption and claimed the attacks came from a known criminal group.

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CATO Networks

JULY 31, 2017

Catos cloud-based IPS is fully converged with the rest of Catos security services, which include next generation firewall (NGFW) , secure web gateway (SWG) , URL filtering, and malware protection. The increased use of encrypted traffic, makes TLS/SSL inspection essential. However, inspecting encrypted traffic degrades IPS performance.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

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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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, the volume of encrypted traffic traversing a firewall VNF can dramatically increase its resource consumption. These may be any network function, such as SD-WAN, firewalls, IPS/IDS, secure web gateways and routers. The Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) , which are third-party virtual appliances being deployed into the vCPE.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. Deploying a new site for SD-WAN requires an SD-WAN gateway be deployed on-site. What You Don’t Need Security is a vital piece of WAN infrastructure that must be addressed.

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InfoQ Articles

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Securing cell-based architecture is essential to fully capitalize on its benefits while minimizing risks. To achieve this, comprehensive security measures must be put in place. Organizations can start by isolating and containing cells using sandbox environments and strict access control mechanisms like role-based and attribute-based access control.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

A VPN establishes a secure, encrypted connection so that a remote users traffic can travel over a public, unsecured, unencrypted network privately and safely. Therefore, any WFH practices have to consider two aspects of security, those being network access control and protecting the home-based worker from cyber-attack.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Performance Issues : VPNs can affect network performance with increased latency due to the added layers of encryption. Filtering with SWG ( Secure Web Gateway ): Ensures safe internet access by filtering malicious content and enforcing web usage policies.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2017

With a spoofed WLAN, the attackers can see the traffic traversing their sites as well as modify the HTML and the JavaScript contained in HTTP requests Most Internet traffic from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) mobile users is encrypted either by the companys VPN or by HTTPS.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

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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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication. This is a network architecture configuration where traffic is directed from a VPN client to the corporate network and also through a gateway to link with the Internet.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 10, 2023

Some of the ways in which VPNs fall short include: Access Management: VPNs are designed to provide an authenticated user with full access to the corporate network, simply creating an encrypted tunnel from the users machine to the VPN endpoint. Without built-in access controls, VPNs cannot enforce zero trusts least privilege access policies.

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CATO Networks

JULY 17, 2021

Furthermore, such approaches introduce multiple points of failure and additional latency from decrypting, inspecting, and re-encrypting packets within every point solution. Cloud-scale : Each Cato SPACE can handle up to 2gbps of encrypted traffic from one or more edge tunnels with all security engines activated.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

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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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To put that another way, SSE blends – Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) – Secure web gateway (SWG) – Cloud access security broker (CASB) – Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) and more into a single-vendor, cloud-centric, converged service. SASE vs SD-WAN Whats Beyond Security | Download eBook Why Is SSE Important?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. The backbone is fully encrypted for maximum security and self-healing for maximum uptime. billed on an opex model consumption-based, via a metered metric (such as ports, bandwidth or users), (not based on network devices/appliances).

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Further, because they can obscure the data from network sensors, Network Address Translation (NAT) and encryption reduce the usefulness of the sensors and can stifle packet inspection efforts.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In-house identity management : A self-operated SAML2-compatible IdP or identity gateway, such as Shibboleth. Encrypt Assertions (default = Off): Specify whether or not you want SAML assertions (authentication, attribute, and/or authorization decision statements) in a response from the IdP to be encrypted.

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Kentik

MARCH 6, 2019

Flannel is a simple option to deploy, and it even provides some native networking capabilities such as host gateways. They want to handle service communication in Layers 4 through 7 where they often implement functions like load-balancing, service discovery, encryption, metrics, application-level security and more.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One might be able to SSH into the compute instance that runs the broker, or even change the encryption keys that persistent volumes (used by the brokers for persistence) require to implement security at rest. Another characteristic of partially managed services is that they grant users access to the guts of the cluster.

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