CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The WAN landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by demands of cloud, mobility, and globalization. Addressing MPLS Limitations with SD-WAN Capabilities Businesses need a networking solution that aligns with todays dynamic needs. While SD-WAN eliminates limitations of MPLS, not all SD-WAN solutions are created equal.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

WAN optimization has been with us for a long time. Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What is the ROI on SD-WAN projects? Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Upside-Down World of Networking & Security | Webinar Firewall Management is a Major Chore Closing these security gaps requires the ability to reduce security teams workloads to a manageable level. One area with significant room for improvement is firewall management.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

Happy To Announce the Birth of a New Technology – SD-WAN It wasnt that long ago that we oohed and ahhed over the brand-new technology called SD-WAN. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Thats so yesteryear or is it?

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WAN SASE MPLS Internet 52

CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

I read with some surprise the interview with Zscalers CEO, Jay Chaudry, in CRN where he stated that the network firewalls will go the way of the mainframe, that the network is just plumbing and that Zscaler proxy overlay architecture will replace it with its application switchboard. The proxy firewalls faded. I guess not.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

We recently held a webinar focused on educating network professionals about Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). This approach is mostly chosen by companies that dont want to compromise on security and also need WAN access. For WAN access, most companies use VPN tunneling from a device directly to the perimeter firewall.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The market for SD-WAN has been driven in part by its ability to reduce bandwidth costs and improve the performance of cloud access. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This amicable live-and-let-live separation falls apart with todays SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For several years now, the network evolution spotlight has been on SD-WAN , and rightfully so. SD-WAN provides big advancements in connecting branch locations into central data centers in a cost-effective manner. However, SD-WAN appliances sit atop the underlying network infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

SD-WAN adoption is seeing rapid growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications. Streamlining the network security infrastructure and providing secure Internet access from any location were the top 2 reasons for moving to SD-WAN in 2018.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2021

Firewalls Evolve Over the Years Before the UTM, there was the basic firewall. All traffic passed through the firewall for basic inspection of security policies based on network information such as the type of protocol or the source/destination addresses.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Challenge The WAN for J.s company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. Connecting to the SAP HEC instance was enabled using 2 IPSEC tunnels, so a full mesh configuration was only possible by deploying a new firewall cluster in the SAP HEC datacenter. It just works.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. The post How Alewijnse used SD-WAN Connectivity as an MPLS Alternative: A In-depth Profile appeared first on Cato Networks.

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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. Congratulations to Cato Networks for receiving a 2017 INTERNET TELEPHONY SD-WAN Excellence Award, said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. The post TMC, Layer123 Recognize Cato for SD-WAN Leadership appeared first on Cato Networks.

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Network Engineering

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I understand that firewall needs to be able to allow for ping on 10.0.3.0 Need help here Site B TZ105 x0 Lan 192.168.162.1 X2 LAN 10.0.3.1 Site A TZ300 X0 LAN 10.0.1.1 VPN tunnel set up as VPN SITE TO SITE and is Green From Site A I can ping 10.0.3.1 From Site B I can ping 10.0.1.1 Do I need to create a VLAN for the Phones? network?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Key components include SD-WAN, Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Two years later, Gartner created a related framework focused exclusively on the security pillar of SASE, the Security Service Edge (SSE).

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

IT organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). According to a July 2017 report from market-research firm IDC , SD-WAN adoption is seeing remarkable growth as companies look to streamline their WAN infrastructure and move toward more cloud-based applications.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If you’re like many of the IT leaders we encounter, you’re likely facing a refresh on your firewall appliances or will face one soon enough. And while the standard practice was to exchange one firewall appliance for another, increasingly, enterprises seem to be replacing firewall appliances with firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS).

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

UCaaS traffic must be backhauled across the WAN to Internet access point resulting in inefficient traffic routing for voice and video calls, and potential quality issues related to excessive delay and jitter. Direct Connect Direct connect options extend the enterprise WAN so that the UCaaS provider appears as just another node on the network.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its also no secret that as more applications move to the cloud, significant changes are hosted onto the WAN. SD-WAN appliances are ill-suited to address these changes. For example, most appliance-based SD-WAN require enterprises to layer security in themselves. Youd have access from anywhere and security everywhere.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 9, 2019

The cost of the total solution Cato is providing us including the centralized management, cloud-based monitoring, and reports matches the cost of the firewall appliances alone. The post Standard Insurance Transforms WAN with Cato Cloud to Win ICMG Award For Best IT Infrastructure Architecture appeared first on Cato Networks.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Regardless, the WAN became complex, costly and the epitome of lack of agility. 2000s 2010s: Moving to Software-Defined WAN Next came the attempt to fill the gaps created by the limitations of MPLS and the public Internet with SD-WAN. Maintaining such a setup was becoming increasingly difficult. This is easier said than done.

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MPLS SASE WAN Network 52

CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As the volume of network traffic increases and a growing percentage is encrypted, traditional network firewalls are falling behind, creating unnecessary tradeoffs between network performance and security. As the volume of encrypted traffic grows, traditional firewalls cant keep up, creating tradeoffs between network performance and security.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. Also, companies need the ability to prioritize certain types of traffic across the WAN.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

But whats particularly interesting for anyone moving away from a global MPLS network or otherwise looking at WAN transformation is the impact NaaS will have on evolving the enterprise backbone. NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. But SASE alone cant replace MPLS.

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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2021

Let’s consider the database scenario for now, but this scenario can be applied at any tier component: application, service mesh, API gateway, authentication, Kubernetes, network backbone, WAN, LAN, switch, or firewall, etc. Transactions typically taking 20ms on a database can become slower.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

However, a zero trust security strategy is only useful if it can be enforced consistently across an organizations entire corporate WAN without compromising network performance. Zero trust must consistently apply access controls and security policies across the entire corporate WAN.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Fortunately, cloud-native SD-WAN platforms, like Cato Cloud , enable enterprises to leverage Network as a Service to its full potential. Network as a Service: A crash course With NaaS, many WAN complexities can be abstracted away. Coupled with an SD-WAN appliance some may argue that NaaS can go a long way in replacing MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Before Shlomo and Gur cofounded Cato, Shlomo cofounded Check Point Software, creator of the first commercial firewall. Their mission was clear: secure the resources inside the firewall from the wily and dangerous world outside of the firewall. Network and security appliances are still sold; legacy WANs are still deployed.

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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. This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN).

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Firewall as a Service (FwaaS) a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service. Unlike appliance-based firewalls that require management of discrete firewall appliances, FwaaS is a single logical firewall in the cloud that can be accessed from anywhere. See also WAN Latency.

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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. These fundamental changes in how we do business demand a new approach to WAN security. These fundamental changes in how we do business demand a new approach to WAN security. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Enterprises often embark on a SASE journey to address a specific, tactical needlike replacing SD-WAN or enhancing remote access securitybut what begins as a targeted project often leads to profound, far-reaching change across the entire IT landscape. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile.

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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. SASE solutions use DPI to support its integrated security functions.

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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. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 15, 2018

More and more IT managers are interested in converging SD-WAN with network security and for good reason. But as weve noted before, traditional SD-WAN fails to adequately address the security dimension, relying on existing security appliances and solutions. Its an SD-WAN built from the ground up with security in mind.

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