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.

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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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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

For SD-WAN s, the Internet has been their weakness. These backbones use cloud intelligence and Internet economics to seamlessly combine networking with advanced security at a fraction of the cost of MPLS. Like any Internet service, the UberNet inherits redundancy from the existing Internet infrastructure.

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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. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

First, the growth in Internet- and cloud-bound traffic is accelerating the introduction of direct secure Internet access at branch locations. SD-WAN Edge Challenges A typical SD-WAN solution includes SD-WAN edge appliances which enable organizations to use multiple transports (MPLS and Internet) in branch locations.

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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., site to site traffic), or to the general Internet. The fact is, many SASE providers use the Internet as the backbone network between their PoPs. There is little or no control over the packets that are traveling on that Internet backbone.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

This allows a comprehensive security policy to be enforced on WAN and Internet traffic, for fixed location and mobile users. Visibility Solutions such as Secure Web Gateways in the Cloud don’t provide visibility to the WAN. Thus, a separate firewall solution is required for the WAN.

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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

Not only did backhauling remote user cloud traffic add latency to Adrolls cloud user experience , but it also saturated the San Francisco Internet connection and created availability problems, as the San Francisco firewall had no geo-redundancy. Users will still be contending with public Internet performance, however.

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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. In addition, cloud traffic can be optimized with shared Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Incorporating the Internet into the enterprise network reduces costs and lets companies connect resources anywhere, but security is paramount. 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.

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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. The criminal group also threatened to publish sensitive data from the car parts supplier on the internet, unless a ransom was paid.

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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. All Internet traffic is sent to the Cato Cloud for inspection and policy enforcement.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

For all of its talk, SASE as understood by much of the industry, will not completely replace a global MPLS network; the Internet is simply too unpredictable for that. NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. Just check out what our customers say if you want first-hand proof.)

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications. 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.

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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

With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a suite of security services toprotect all traffic at all times. Cato encrypts and protects all data in transit and at rest within the Cato network. Our CASB, for example, inspects all Internet and cloud-based traffic. How is sensitive data handled?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

However, access via VPN can be notoriously slow, especially as traffic is backhauled back across the Internet to the VPN server. A VPN establishes a secure, encrypted connection so that a remote users traffic can travel over a public, unsecured, unencrypted network privately and safely.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services. 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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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

This includes measures such as risk management, incident detection and response, regular security assessments, and encryption of sensitive data. Its products are designed to help IT staff manage network security for distributed workforces accessing resources across the wide area network (WAN), cloud and Internet.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, with growing cloud adoption, this perimeter would need to enclose the entire Internet, making it ineffective for security. Some of the primary limitations of perimeter-focused security models include: Dissolving Perimeters: Legacy security models attempt to secure a perimeter that encapsulates all of an organizations IT assets.

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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

MARCH 14, 2021

Direct Internet access (DIA) is enabled as well. Having network and security all on one platform, in a single-pass solution, has the advantage of deep visibility at wire-speed even if the traffic is encrypted. The security inspection tools see everything on the network, not just logs.

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Kentik

MARCH 6, 2019

Google Compute Engine (GCE) - all pods can reach each other and can egress traffic to the internet. Flannel is a simple option to deploy, and it even provides some native networking capabilities such as host gateways. Flannel - a very simple overlay network that satisfies the Kubernetes requirements.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

the internet) since by default these services only allow ingress and egress connectivity from the VPC that holds the cluster. 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.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of metrics. Key Findings Traffic Global Internet traffic grew 17.2% Google maintained its position as the most popular Internet service overall.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 17, 2021

VPNs are Giving Way to Zero Trust Security While VPNs provide traffic encryption and user authentication, they still present a security risk because they grant access to the entire network without the option of controlling granular user access to specific resources.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Another factor is the Internets erraticness and, as such, the inability to leave a costly MPLS service. Today, most Internet traffic is encrypted, limiting the visibility of many traditional IT tools. Decrypting and re-encrypting traffic has no impact on Cato Cloud performance. Securing branch offices is one major factor.

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The Network DNA

JANUARY 22, 2025

Encryption and Hash Algorithms: Check if the encryption (e.g., encryption, authentication) are correct. lifetime, encryption) match. Traceroute: Use traceroute to check the path the traffic is taking and whether it reaches the VPN gateway. AES-256) and hash algorithms (e.g., SHA-256) match on both ends.

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