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What Makes For a Good VPN?

Akins IT

A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. Why use a VPN? One of the core reasons that people use VPN's is to secure their network, while increasing their privacy. Another reason people use VPN's are because a lot of sevices are geogrpahically blocked. What is a Virtual Private Network? Do You Need to Geo-Shift Your Location?

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Remote Access Security: The Dangers of VPN

CATO Networks

One prominent alternative is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platforms with embedded Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that alleviate the security dangers and other disadvantages of VPN. VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication.

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A new threat to network security has surfaced (and it’s not the quantum computer)

Juniper

However, the bad news is that this new era also brings the ability to break current VPN encryption algorithms. In response, governments, standards bodies, and network security vendors are working to ensure public networks remain secure from quantum computer-aided cybersecurity threats now and into the future.

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Guide to how Local Governments can Prevent Security Breaches

Akins IT

How Local Governments Can Prevent Security Breaches As an IT Director or IT Manager for a local government agency, you're responsible for ensuring the security of sensitive data and systems. Cyberattacks on state, counties, cities, and tribal government IT infrastructure continue to occur.

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Top 5 Myths About SD-WAN

CATO Networks

Many MPLS customers today add VPN encryption to secure the network. Myth 4: MPLS is the Only Networking Option for Enterprises in China With the recent crackdown on VPN connections in China, many believe MPLS is now the only way to go. However, because traffic is sent in the clear, they are vulnerable to wiretapping.

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Eye-Opening Results from Forrester’s Cato SASE Total Economic Impact Report

CATO Networks

Consistent security rules : Deploying Cato revealed a lot of inconsistencies in organizations governing and securing of network traffic across different sites. This is because Cato Sockets are very simple devices that simply direct traffic to our cloud, where most of the complex encryption and other technologies lie. That was amazing.

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The Promise and Peril of SD-WANs

CATO Networks

As managed services, MPLS services are backed with service level agreements (SLAs) governing downtime, latency, packet loss, time to repair, and more. To achieve those aims, SD-WAN nodes form an encrypted overlay across the underlying data services, such as xDSL and 4G Internet services, or private services, such as MPLS circuits.

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