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Traditional Firewalls Can’t Keep Up with the Growth of Encrypted Traffic

CATO Networks

A growing percentage of Internet traffic is protected by encryption. According to Google , approximately 95% of web browsing uses the encrypted HTTPS protocol. This trend toward traffic encryption has been driven by a few different factors. The move toward data encryption is a mixed blessing for cybersecurity.

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Cato CTRL Threat Brief: CVE-2024-3661 – VPN Vulnerability (“TunnelVision”)

CATO Networks

Researchers have labeled this technique ‘decloaking’ as while the VPN tunnel remains connected, it allows attackers to trick many VPN clients into sending traffic via a side channel and not through the encrypted tunnel. The attack requires introducing a rogue DHCP server to the local network.

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Network Security Solutions to Support Remote Workers and Digital Transformation

CATO Networks

The way to shrink it back to a manageable size is with effective network security solutions, which in their own right require an evolution from legacy security appliances to a secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. The security inspection tools see everything on the network, not just logs.

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How Secure is Your SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

These drivers, though, also come with baggage: the reassessment of todays corporate security model. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. Instead, we must bring networking and security disciplines closer together.

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Should You Be Concerned About the Security of SD-WAN?

CATO Networks

The unique characteristic of Catos SD-WAN as a service (SDWaaS) is the convergence of the networking and security pillars into a single platform. All PoPs are interconnected using fully-meshed, encrypted tunnels to protect traffic once it is on the network.

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TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership

CATO Networks

Previous recognition included Gartner Cool Vendor 2017 , a finalist as a RSA Innovation Sandbox 2017 , and CRN for 25 Coolest network Security Vendors. 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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What is Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) and Why You Need It

CATO Networks

Since the beginning of networks, the lynchpin of network security has been the firewall. The first network firewalls appeared in the late 1980s, and gained almost universal acceptance by the early 1990s. FWaaS eliminates those issues by uniformly applying the security policy on all traffic, for all locations and users.