Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

When more of the workforce shifts to working remotely, it puts new and different strains on the infrastructure across different parts of the network, especially where VPN gateways connect to the network edge. Another strategy is to increase visibility into the traffic flowing between the network edge and VPN gateways and optimize performance.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2019

The infamous malware that crippled global DNS provider Dyn, French Web host OVH and security journalist Brain Krebs Web site with botnets of infected home routers, baby monitors and other IoT devices is now infecting enterprise network equipment, according to a recent Palo Alto Networks blog and Network Computing article.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

In this blog, we will explore what static routes are, how they differ from dynamic routes, and how to configure them on routers like Cisco devices. This characteristic makes them efficient for routers with limited processing capabilities. A static route is a manually configured path in a routing table.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 14, 2022

Traffic processing engines are at the core of many networking and security products including routers, SD-WAN devices, next generation firewalls, secure web gateways, IPS , CASB/DLP, and ZTNA products. The answer is: core capabilities should be built once and be leveraged to address multiple functional requirements.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 23, 2019

Thus, despite the industry hype, NFV will largely look like the managed or hosted firewalls and other devices of the past, with some incremental benefits from using virtual instead of physical appliances. These may be any network function, such as SD-WAN, firewalls, IPS/IDS, secure web gateways and routers.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At the core of NFV is the notion that network functions, such as SD-WAN , firewalling and secure web access, can be delivered as virtual appliances and run either on premises (vCPE) or at the carrier core data centers (hosted). Some VNFs, such as routers and SD-WAN, consume relatively few resources.

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Kentik

MAY 8, 2023

Maintaining network connectivity with BGP Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a routing protocol that connects different networks over the internet. It is used to maintain network connectivity by helping routers find the best path for traffic to travel through.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

These were largely untouched by the cloud and dominated by appliance-based solutions (routers, firewalls, etc.). Customers were looking to move away from their MPLS networks and the backhauling of Internet traffic to a secure internet gateway at the datacenter.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

SD-WAN appliances include basic firewalls, but those firewalls lack the threat protection needed by today’s enterprises. Branch firewalls offer more capabilities, but their capacity constraints limit inspection capabilities for CPU-intensive operations, such as SSL decryption, anti-malware, and IPS. .

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

Redundant Provider Edge (PE) MPLS-enabled routers, switches, and other appliances were needed in each point-of-presence (PoP). Advanced threat protection services, such as next generation firewall (NGFW) , intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and a secure web gateway (SWG) are needed to secure the enterprise perimeter and mobile users.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Operational costs grew as administrators had to manually configure and deploy routers and appliances needed in the branch offices: WAN optimizers for overcoming bandwidth limitations, stacks of security appliances for defending the Internet perimeter, packet capture and analysis appliances for visibility and more.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Visibility -- Historically enterprise networks had a router/firewall connected to the WAN as a gateway. Monitoring traffic flows could be a real challenge if the packets don’t always flow through the WAN gateway. Will a BYOD mentality pervade that sidesteps this convention?

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Their MPLS configuration also required a stack of appliances firewalls, routers, and WAN optimization at each site that added costs and complexity. Other than the datacenter and four stores, none of the locations had firewalls to protect them against malware and other attacks.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

Putting this in traditional product category terms, a Cato SPACE includes the capabilities of global route optimization, WAN and cloud access acceleration, and security as a service with next-generation firewall, secure web gateway , next-gen anti-malware, and IPS.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For example, as opposed to buying a next-generation firewall (NGFW) appliance, NGFW functionality can be provided using cloud-based, software-defined services from a cloud service provider. From a security perspective, the Cato network includes an application-aware NGFW , anti-malware functionality, secure web gateway , and IPS built-in.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Appliances such as routers, firewalls, secure web gateways (SWG) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) have well-earned reputations of being extremely sensitive to updates. They often serve as critical infrastructure so IT must be careful about disrupting their operation, often delaying until a weekend or holiday.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. A permissions issue caused by a reconfigured firewall rule? billed on an opex model consumption-based, via a metered metric (such as ports, bandwidth or users), (not based on network devices/appliances). Something else?

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Kentik

JULY 28, 2021

Bad hardware (the switch or router port). Firewall configured to drop packets (all ICMP is dropped). Overwhelmed router. Congestion in the form of high-connection utilization or an overworked router in the path is another common source of trouble. The cloud is made up of thousands of routers. UDP vs. TCP.

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

Internal communications routed over internet gateways and driving up costs. Abandoned gateways and subnets configured with overlapping IP space. Fifteen years ago you couldn’t launch a new business or even run a school without having a server, a switch, and a router sitting in a rack somewhere. But those days are gone.

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Network Engineering

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scenario: AT&T Fiber Modem/Router configured in IP-PassThrough Mode, with a web UI listening via static IP address 192.168.1.254. I've tried multiple Google searches to find a guide on how to do this and found nothing, so I am attempting to create a reference question for others.

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The Network DNA

JANUARY 22, 2025

Troubleshooting an IPsec VPN issue on a Palo Alto Networks firewall in 9 steps Step 1# Verify VPN Configuration Check the IPsec Tunnel Settings: Ensure that both sides of the tunnel (Palo Alto firewall and the remote peer) have matching configurations: IKE Version: Verify if IKEv1 or IKEv2 is being used and ensure both ends match.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

For e.g., if accessing file system over WebDAV or FTP has performance issues, and it will take 4 hours to fix, then for those 4 hours, you can just kill FTP/WebDAV at kong/firewall and ask customers to use web UI or other mechanisms to work. API gateway. We use Mashery as a gateway, the API is documented at [link]. Integrations.

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