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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. But those very networks have changed dramatically over the past decade. Compatibility and security policies for multiple cloud and IaaS services.

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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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The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as Described in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2019

CATO Networks

Secure Access Service Edge “ Analysis By: Joe Skorupa; Neil MacDonald Definition: The secure access service edge (SASE) are emerging converged offerings combining WAN capabilities with network security functions (such as secure web gateway, CASB and SDP) to support the needs of digital enterprises.

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

CATO Networks

SASE supports branch office, remote worker and on-premises general internet security use cases. SASE is primarily delivered as a service and enables dynamic zero trust access based on the identity of the device or entity, combined with real-time context and security and compliance policies. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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A New Approach to SD-WAN Management

CATO Networks

How will they secure all of the Internet access points created by SD-WAN? By expanding the attack surface, every office with DIA now requires the full range of security services including next-generation firewall (NGFW), IDS/IPS, sandboxing and more. Simple changes, such as firewall rules, could take a couple of days.

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New World, New Thinking: Why “The Box” Has Got To Go

CATO Networks

NFV infrastructure involves a management and orchestration layer that determines which services should be activated for a customer, and VNFs (virtual network functions) that represent the services themselves. In the context of firewalls, for example, these are virtual appliances from companies like Fortinet and Cisco.

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The Co-Managed SD-WAN: A Managed Infrastructure with Self-Service Capabilities for Agility

CATO Networks

Security is often added to the solution via service-insertion or service-chaining. Branches that have their own direct connection to the Internet will require a full stack of security services, including next-generation firewall, intrusion detection/intrusion prevention, sandboxing, and so on.

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