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. It is speculated that the attack on Travelex became possible because the company had failed to patch vulnerable VPN servers. We also address the shortcomings of VPNs.

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The data transfer between DoorDash and payment processors needs to be encrypted to protect customers’ privacy and sensitive data. We considered two common approaches for linking on-premise data centers with the AWS cloud: Site-to-Site VPN and Direct Connect. At the same time, it ensures a consistent connection with low latency. .

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak led to a surge in business VPN usage in an extremely short timeframe. In fact, multiple regions saw VPN usage rise over 200% in a matter of weeks. However, as they settle into the new normal, many enterprises are also learning that there are several VPN disadvantages as well. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies that already offered VPN services to a small group of remote workers scurried to extend those capabilities to the much larger workforce sequestering at home. With a VPN, all communication between the user and the VPN is encrypted. Performance can be an issue.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies looking to provide secure remote access to their off-site employees have largely chosen to expand their existing virtual private network (VPN) deployments. VPNs are ill-suited to meeting modern business needs and will only become less so in the future.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Why remote access should be a collaboration between network & security | Whitepaper Where Legacy Secure Remote Access Falls Short With a growing percentage of corporate workforces working on remote or hybrid schedules, a secure remote access VPN is essential. In many cases, companies are reliant on VPNs to provide this capability.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

Source: Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge, 29 July 2019, Joe Skorupa, Neil MacDonald VPN Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions provide an encrypted link between a network and a remote user or network.

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Network Engineering

AUGUST 19, 2020

WAN > OPNsense (in ESXi)> switch (C3560G) OPNsense is DHCP server Thing is that i would like the switch to deal with the DHCP, to avoid being naked when ESXi needs maintenance. Also need to setup a VPN on OPNsense but will that be possible if 3560 is acting as the DHCP server? dns-server 10.0.0.2 dns-server 10.0.0.2

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2017

The POC was able to generate the so called Blue Screen of Death on Windows clients that connects into a compromised SMB server. Vulnerabilities in SMB servers should be treated very seriously. If attackers compromise an SMB server in the organization, they can exploit SMB vulnerabilities as part of wider lateral movement.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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Indeed Engineering

JULY 3, 2024

During this time, our mesh was only protected by the network perimeter behind the VPN. We run multiple SPIRE Servers in each Kubernetes cluster for redundancy. SPIRE Servers in each cluster have a common datastore for synchronization. A single Spire Server can go down in any cluster without any outage.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Weve all heard of AV and VPN, but there are many more cybersecurity-related acronyms and abbreviations that are worth taking note of. ZTNA Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), also called a software-defined perimeter (SDP), is an alternative to Virtual Private Network (VPN) for secure remote access.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to SD-WAN, he concedes: Theres a huge business case that SD-WAN products are aiming to solve: replacing traditional MPLS/VPN networks with encrypted transport over public Internet.Internet access is often orders of magnitude cheaper than traditional circuits.

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Kentik

AUGUST 4, 2017

Also in the news this week, China and Russia both cracked down on VPN usage. According to the story, “Netflix engineers reroute customers away from a certain region of production servers so they can have a real-world sandbox in which to experiment.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Executive Summary Modern ransomware attacks have evolved beyond simple encryption to deploy sophisticated double extortion tactics. Threat actors now systematically exfiltrate sensitive data before encrypting systems, ensuring leverage even when victims have robust data backups. dev cdn-server-2[.]wesoc40288[.]workers[.]dev

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

As such, traffic, even encrypted traffic, can be inspected at wire speed regardless of the needed security policies or optimizations. Contrast this to networks with separate security appliances or web services, which require the traffic to be decrypted, inspected, and re-encrypted multiple times.

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Akins IT

MARCH 24, 2022

Another good practice is to train your staff on how to access agency resources via a VPN and how to enable full-disk encryption on personal computers that may access our IT environment. Your desktop, laptop, and server operating systems should continually be updated with the latest patches.

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Software Architecture Zen

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The cloud serfs are the people (and that’s several billion people around the world) who provide the content (the raw tracking data, the stories, the videos, the images) largely for free, that enable these platforms to be more than just the server farms, networks and software from which they are built.

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