CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

While SDN is an important concept, it is moving slowly through the datacenter due to the complexity of the environment and the co-opetition between vendors that provide the virtual network functions (VNFs). Where SDN has traction is within the discipline of SD-WAN. SD-WAN is a narrower implementation of SDN concepts.

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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

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. Security was never a strength of SD-WAN companies and legacy telcos.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

Many organizations today are choosing to migrate to SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network), because it can eliminate the challenges of MPLS networks. SD-WAN brings software defined networking (SDN) to the WAN, improving WAN management and increasing cost savings when compared against MPLS.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Impact of the Dissolved Perimeter The traffic patterns driving SD-WAN adoption change how companies protect their users and data.

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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. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. Like so many technologies, though, there are the promises of SD-WANs and then there are the realities of SD-WANs. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a report from Forrester, 90% of Network Managers are looking to evolve their WAN with a software-defined approach. Below are valuable on-demand webinars that answer crucial questions about growing SD-WAN technology. Each webinar provides insight into different SD-WAN topics for IT leaders to consider.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

As critical applications migrate into Microsoft Azure, enterprises are challenged with building a WAN that can deliver the necessary cloud performance without dramatically increasing costs and complexity. Theres been no good approach to building an Azure SD-WAN until now. Nor does edge SD-WAN help. Lets see how.

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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. Tertiary failover?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

When it comes to the enterprise network, decisions need to be made with cost, performance, security, and future plans in mind. Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Enterprise networking experts often disagree on many things. However, when it comes to SD-WAN technology it is difficult to ignore its obvious benefits. Dont take our word for it, heres what 9 leading industry experts have to say on the benefits of SD-WAN for enterprise networking: Is SD-WAN the future of networking?

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Companies needing to connect their users to the services in the cloud, who have been using a wide-area network (WAN) with MPLS for security, are seeing the benefits of using a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for connectivity. Other solutions like building regional hubs are still costly and complex.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2018

Adaptations in WAN infrastructure that arise are necessary to meet the new and shifting IT landscape. Initially, SD-WAN was driven by the need for cost-saving since WAN infrastructure, MPLS, in particular, can be quite expensive. Today, its not just cost savings that are driving enterprises to SD-WAN.

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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. This has necessitated a rethink of the WAN architecture.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As the WAN is the ingress and egress point of corporate networks, securing it is vital to mitigating risk and improving security posture. However, cloud services and mobile users make networks much more dynamic and difficult to secure than they were just a decade ago. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2017

SD-WANs promise to address the problem, of course, but even as an SD-WAN provider we can tell you that SD-WANs may not be right choice for everyone. So much depends on how you answer certain questions about your business, the resources available, and your networking requirements. We hope the The Ultimate Checklist helps.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

One would provide the SD-WAN and security, another the global private backbone, and perhaps a third-will deliver remote access. We refer to it as the secure access service edge and it is primarily delivered as a cloud-based service. Secure access services need to be everywhere. But is that what SASE is all about?

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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

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. Site-to-Site Security a Must And when traffic is sent between sites, it must be secured.

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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 11, 2021

Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. 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. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

(Were also getting our taste for speed through o ur partnership with the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team , where Catos services ensure that Porsche has a fast, reliable, and secure network thats imperative for its on-track success.) This tops our previous milestone of up to 3 Gbps per tunnel.

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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

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.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fortunately for enterprises, cloud-based SD-WAN solves this problem by making secure, monitored, and policy-enforced WAN connectivity possible across the globe, on-prem and in the cloud, without sacrificing performance. But what exactly makes cloud-based SD-WAN different?

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CATO Networks

MAY 19, 2022

SD-WAN Receive a thorough exploration of a proposed vendors SD-WAN offering, covering link management, traffic routing and QoS, voice and latency-sensitive traffic, throughput and edge devices, monitoring and reporting, site provisioning, gradual deployment / co-existence with legacy MPLS networks.

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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

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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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Many enterprises are replacing their fixed MPLS wide area networks (WANs) with virtualized software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) to reduce costs. Alongside that shift, 5G offers sufficient capacity and reliability to provide an additional path to support an SD-WAN, providing greater coverage, particularly for remote sites.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But what happens when security teams want to modernize their tools and services but networking teams remain committed to legacy SD-WAN or carrier technologies? For security teams, Gartner has defined a new category, the Security Service Edge (SSE). What is SSE? The argument of SSE is much of the same as for SASE.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 2, 2021

Understanding the 2021 Strategic Roadmap for SASE Convergence In July 2019, Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to define the next generation of network security technology. SASE solutions acknowledge that modern networks and security challenges are very different from the past.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

With MPLS revenue streams at risk, the carriers are pursuing a two-prong strategy: augmenting MPLS with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and adding value-add services to the core network with Network Function Virtualization (NFV). SD-WAN offers a good way for carriers to augment their MPLS services.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The features benchmark is clear: whoever has the most features created over the past two decades in CASB, SWG, NGFW, SD-WAN, and ZTNA is the best. Cato named a Challenger in Gartners Magic Quadrant for Single Vendor-SASE | Get the Report Carlsberg called Cato The Apple of Networking.

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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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