CATO Networks

MARCH 14, 2021

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. Direct Internet access (DIA) is enabled as well.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As remote and hybrid work schedules become more common, companies are deploying secure remote access solutions, such as virtual private networks (VPNs) to support them. However, this often means making tradeoffs between the performance of remote workers network connectivity and its security.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

While at home you might spend $50 for a 50 Mbps Internet link, MPLS services can cost 10 times more for a fraction of the bandwidth. So much depends on how you answer certain questions about your business, the resources available, and your networking requirements. Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth has experienced the surreal.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

The dramatic changes in network traffic patterns, from inwards towards the data center to outwards towards the cloud, is challenging the base premise for dedicated WAN optimization appliances. First, the growth in Internet- and cloud-bound traffic is accelerating the introduction of direct secure Internet access at branch locations.

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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. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In its August 2019 report, The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, Gartner saw SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) as creating a single network for the complete enterprise, connecting and securing all edges everywhere. For example, malicious content may bypass detection and be downloaded from the Internet.

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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. Other features include WAN traffic protection and Internet traffic protection.

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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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CATO Networks

JANUARY 27, 2022

A remote access virtual private network (VPN) is a solution designed to securely connect a remote user to the enterprise network. A remote access VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between a remote worker and the enterprise network. VPNs in general are designed to create an encrypted tunnel between two points.

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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. For decades, networking and security evolved as silos, creating separate point products in each category.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

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.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Anyone whos purchased MPLS bandwidth for their business and Internet DSL for their home has endured the surreal experience of paying 3 times or even 10 times more per megabit for MPLS bandwidth. High per megabit pricing is out-of-step with todays tendency towards video-oriented, bandwidth-intensive Internet-and cloud-bound data flows.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. MPLS is much more expensive compared to standard Internet, and can take anywhere from 60-120 days to provision. MPLS also doesnt address cloud or mobile traffic, which is a major issue for enterprises.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2017

Mobility, cloud access, Internet security these and more form the shape of todays business. 5 Ways to Architect your WAN for Microsoft Office 365 September 13th & 14th, 2017 Companies may be embracing SaaS applications, such as Microsoft Office 365, but not traditional wide area networks (WANs).

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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. SSL Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a predecessor to TLS.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

As mobile users connect directly to the internet through unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and offices access cloud resources via direct internet access, the attack surface grows. This, at a time when security teams already struggle to keep ahead of threat actors and new attack vectors.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

Scalability, performance, and security can all become challenges with remote access VPN. By taking a software-defined approach to remote access and network security, SDP (sometimes referred to as ZTNA or Zero Trust Network Access ) helps address these challenges in a way that is more sustainable long-term.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security. SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). A LAN is connected to the Internet via one or more ISPs.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Rather than global enterprises having to think about every possible networking failover scenario, Cato Cloud now heals itself end-to-end, ensuring service continuity. We’ve fully converged self-healing into our security and networking cloud platform for follow-the-network security rules.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In today’s digital age, where work from anywhere and hybrid cloud adoption are the norm, traditional network security perimeters have crumbled. IT organizations are using hybrid cloud strategies to combine the scalable, cost-effective public cloud with the secure, compliant private cloud.

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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. The argument of SSE is much of the same as for SASE.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 12, 2018

Packet Loss: Packet loss occurs when network congestion or problems in the physical infrastructure cause packets to be lost during transmission. As a rule of thumb, Internet connections frequently experience 1 percent packet loss. Encrypted data cannot be compressed or deduplicated as it is already scrambled for security reasons.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is a technology for securing networks by scanning and blocking malicious network traffic. By identifying suspicious activities and dropping packets, an IPS can help reduce the attack surface of an enterprise network. Read more about it in our ZTNA hub ).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 4, 2016

As Nolle points out, … if we shed the boundaries of devices to become virtual, shouldnt we think about the structure of services in a deeper way than assuming we succeed by just substituting networks of instances for networks of boxes? NSaaS is making a network security stack available everywhere (i.e.,

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Importance of Secure Remote Access Allowing employees to work remotely introduces new risks and vulnerabilities to the organization. For example, people working at home or other places outside the office may use unmanaged personal devices with a suspect security posture. Security is still a considerable concern when VPNs are used.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. This granular-level security is part of the identity-driven approach to network access that SASE demands.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN. However, using MPLS bandwidth to backhaul Internet data to a secure location is expensive and affects performance. The lack of SLAs for broadband Internet and limited MPLS capacity results in unpredictable performance slowdowns.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Enhancing Your Enterprise Network Security Strategy | Webinar Legacy Firewall Security Solutions Cant Keep Up Zero-day threat detection is essential for protecting against modern cyber threats, but it is also resource-intensive. This provides improved security visibility and additional context regarding cyber threats.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

Over the past two decades, carriers have built massive global networking platforms that are faithfully serving many enterprises. MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. It allows their customers to boost the capacity, manageability and agility of MPLS by adding Internet-links into a hybrid WAN.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Its impractical to centralize a network around an on-premise datacenter when data and applications increasingly are in the cloud and users are wherever they need to beon the road, at home, at a customer site, in a branch office. Security must be an inherent part of the network, which is why Gartner expects networking and security to converge.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 28, 2022

By contrast, The Cato SASE Cloud is the world’sfirst cloud-native SASEplatform , converging SD-WAN and networksecurity in thecloud.Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud data centers, into a global and secure, cloud-native network service.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2023

Additionally, a remote work program can also be a key component of a business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategy as employees can work remotely in response to power or Internet outages, extreme weather, or public health crises. Historically, many organizations have relied upon VPNs to provide secure remote access.

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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. Every Cato PoP provides Catos complete suite of security services, eliminating the need for backhauling.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

Jim Metzler from Webtorials, and Yishay Yovel, VP Marketing at Cato Networks, discuss the options available to enterprise IT networking and security teams to architect a secure WAN. Find out how you can take advantage of the latest capabilities to optimize and secure your regional, national, or global network.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Datacenter network congestion is also an issue, one that Adroll, a company offering a marketing platform for personalized advertising campaigns, had to grapple with. Users will still be contending with public Internet performance, however. If my global network goes down, I can be like Batman and whip this thing out.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

A workaround enterprises have used to improve site availability, is pairing an MPLS connection with backup Internet connections. The predecessor to SD-WAN provided some improvements with link-bonding, which combines multiple Internet services with diverse technologies, such as xDSL and 4G from different providers.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It is easy for an enterprise to fall into a false sense of security because they can view all the traffic traversing MPLS links. The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services.

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