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Why Application Awareness is Essential for Firewall Security 

CATO Networks

Firewalls – the foundation of an organizations network security strategy – filters network traffic and can enforce an organizations security rules. By limiting the traffic that enters and leaves or enters an organizations network, a firewall can dramatically reduce its vulnerability to data breaches and other cyberattacks.

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IoT Security Best Practices

CATO Networks

Its no secret that IoT security is a problem. But even with the right measures in place, networking professionals still need to be careful how they deploy IoT. To those ends, a number of best practices have been published to guide IoT deployments.

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The Future of the Firewall is in the Cloud 

CATO Networks

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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How to Solve the Cloud vs On-Premise Security Dilemma

CATO Networks

They often retain a legacy data center firewall for East-West traffic protection, alongside an SSE solution for North-South traffic protection. Figure 1 – WAN Firewall Policy Using the centralized Cato Management Application (CMA), it is simple to create a policy based on a zero-trust approach. allow IOT devices (e.g.

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The Future of Work and its Effect on Cybersecurity

CATO Networks

Remote Workforce As teams become increasingly remote, technology is evolving to match, and the amount of data that is accessed every second from mobile phones, desktop computers, laptops, and even IoT devices has a higher chance of being hacked.

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Advisory: Why You Should (Still) Care About Inbound Network Scans

CATO Networks

The University of Pennsylvania, for example, uses network scanning in the study of global trends in protocol security. Attackers may try to gain control of IoT devices or routers, control them using a bot that may be used later for DDoS attacks (such as the Mirai botnet ) or even cryptocurrencies mining, which are very popular these days.

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How to Be a Bold and Effective Security Leader

CATO Networks

A converged solution enables doing this in a holistic manner that covers all traffic (ports, protocols, IPs, sources and destinations), applications (Private, Public, Cloud and Web), security capabilities (FWaaS, IPS, NGFW, ZTNA, CASB, DLP) and directions (WAN, Internet, Cloud) for all users, IoT, apps and devices.

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