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Firewall as a Service: Uniting your Network and Security Again

CATO Networks

It really wasnt very long ago when installing a Firewall (FW) or Unified Threat Management (UTM) system at the perimeter was deemed secure enough to protect corporate networks. Compatibility and security policies for multiple cloud and IaaS services. But those very networks have changed dramatically over the past decade.

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Blender Case Study: FinTech Drops the Box

CATO Networks

With plans to add more remote branches in the New Year, Blender decided it was time to shed management and maintenance of firewall appliances and move to centralized network provisioning and security. Even if the time required to manage your firewall is just 10 hours a month, thats still 10 hours youve lost, explains Aviv.

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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

By that I mean, traffic goes to the SASE solution providers PoPs to be forwarded to SaaS or IaaS applications or the Internet. Cato Uses Multiple Cloud Optimization Techniques Cato natively supports cloud datacenters (IaaS) and cloud applications (SaaS) resources without additional configuration, complexity, or point solutions.

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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

Cato can establish an IPsec tunnel from customers existing equipment such as a firewall in a datacenter or branch location. For cloud data centers, the Cato PoPs co-locate data centers directly connected to the Internet exchange points as the leading IaaS providers such as AWS and Azure.

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New Insight Into SASE from the Recent Gartner® Report on Impact Radar: Communications

CATO Networks

SASE is evolving from five contributing security and network segments: software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), firewall, SWG, CASB and ZTNA. SASE supports branch office, remote worker and on-premises general internet security use cases. Because of the availability of these two factors, or use cases, buyer adoption is picking up.

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What You Don’t Need from an SD-WAN Vendor

CATO Networks

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. By using service insertion or service chaining, separate security services such as firewalls and IPS are inserted into the data flow.

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The 4 Values of SD-WAN

CATO Networks

The network perimeter has dissolved with IaaS, SaaS, and mobile users breaking that barrier and shifting more traffic to the Internet. The appliance form factor including the cost of hardware, software, and expert staff to maintain it is a burden which SD-WAN eliminates with Firewall as a Service (FWaaS).

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