CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking has enterprises backhauling WAN traffic from branches over MPLS circuits to a central site and applying security policies before sending the traffic to the cloud or the public Internet. Other features include WAN traffic protection and Internet traffic protection.

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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. The award is given to companies that demonstrate the innovation, vision, and execution to deliver software-based networking tools to support different and unique communities of interest.

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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. An agile, efficient, and ubiquitous security architecture is essential if organizations are to fully transform their networks. Companies must still to deploy external security appliances.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

These drivers, though, also come with baggage: the reassessment of todays corporate security model. Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. This requires a shift in our security models. We can no longer assume that the WAN is secure.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 15, 2018

Since the beginning of networks, the lynchpin of network security has been the firewall. The first network firewalls appeared in the late 1980s, and gained almost universal acceptance by the early 1990s. FWaaS eliminates those issues by uniformly applying the security policy on all traffic, for all locations and users.

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CATO Networks

MAY 18, 2021

When Gartner published its seminal report on SASE (The Future of Network Security Is in the Cloud, August 2019), the analyst firm listed the reduction of complexity and costs as one of the top benefits of SASE. Costs can be vastly reduced when networking and security are merged, and the operational aspects are provided as a service.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2017

FWaaS is a cloud-based architecture that eliminates the need to deploy firewalls on-premises, mainly in remote branches, in order to provide site-to-site connectivity and secure Internet access. Cato Networks is a pioneer of a new architecture that provides FWaaS as part of a broader WAN transformation platform.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2022

You can continue to rely on your centralized security gateway, backhauling traffic from branch office inspection by the gateway before sending the traffic across the Internet to Azure. You can even improve the connection between the gateway and Azure with a premium connectivity service, such as Azure ExpressRoute.

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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.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 25, 2022

Why The Trombone Effect Is So Detrimental to IT Teams and End Users The Trombone Effect occurs in a network architecture that forces a distributed organization to use a single secure exit point to the Internet. Network responses then flow back through the same stack and travel from the data center to the remote user.

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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. This is my take. The idea behind Cato is simple.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

MPLS came of age when users worked in offices, resources resided in the datacenter, and the Internet was an afterthought. It was hopelessly out of step with a world that needed to move fast and one obsessed with the Internet. Advanced Security SD-WAN lacks the necessary security to protect branch offices.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2019

Mirai DDOS attacks also crippled Rutgers Universitys network and Internet access across the African country of Liberia. And with SD-WAN appliances, theres a chance IT will misconfigure and expose them to the Internet; no so with Cato Sockets, which are managed by Cato personnel who enforce secure configuration and updates.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

A network attack is any attempt to gain access to or otherwise compromise the integrity or availability of a network. Network attacks come in many forms. Guaranteeing network security and performance in the face of these attacks, whatever form they take, is one of the principal responsibilities of network operators today.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Gur Shatz, Catos co-founder, and I come from the networking and network security domains. Converged Architecture vs. Integration: the first SASE Historically, networking and network security were separate between networking specialists (like Juniper and Cisco) and security specialists (like Check Point and Palo Alto Networks).

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A growing percentage of Internet traffic is protected by encryption. While estimates vary, most agree that at least 80% of Internet traffic uses SSL/TLS to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of the data being transmitted. Network security solutions can overcome these challenges, but it comes at a cost.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The bandwidth is expensive (relative to Internet capacity) and often limited or unavailable on some routes, forcing companies to either pay exorbitant fees to connect locations or, more likely, resort to Internet-based VPNs, complicating network design. Here there’s a balance of considerations.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the face of rising bandwidth costs and the limitations of MPLS , IT teams turn to SD-WAN, a more flexible and cost-effective solution that leverages public internet links to improve performance and reliability. By converging SD-WAN with network security , SASE empowers enterprises to be agile.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

He has more than 20 years of experience in network security and information management, and specializes in enterprise infrastructure, security and project management. company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. Background J., with offices across the globe.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2021

Lets take a look to find out what s beyond the UTM and the future of network security. The Future of Enterprise Security is in the Cloud T here is a new and revolutionary way of delivering N GFW and other network security capabilities as a cloud service.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Datacenter network congestion is also an issue, one that Adroll, a company offering a marketing platform for personalized advertising campaigns, had to grapple with. Users will still be contending with public Internet performance, however. Shifting to cloud-based Web gateways and CASBs has its own overhead as well.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In today’s digital age, where work from anywhere and hybrid cloud adoption are the norm, traditional network security perimeters have crumbled. IT organizations are using hybrid cloud strategies to combine the scalable, cost-effective public cloud with the secure, compliant private cloud.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2015

When deploying a security, it was naturally placed at the entry or exit point of the network. This was the way firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, email security gateways, data loss prevention and other security systems were implemented. As challenging this problem had been, it had gotten bigger.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical. Results from the survey reveal problems stemming from complexity are driving organizations to find solutions that simplify security and the underlying infrastructure. Protection was particularly important as employees accessed the Internet directly.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To put that another way, SSE blends – Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) – Secure web gateway (SWG) – Cloud access security broker (CASB) – Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) and more into a single-vendor, cloud-centric, converged service. The argument of SSE is much of the same as for SASE.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Its impractical to centralize a network around an on-premise datacenter when data and applications increasingly are in the cloud and users are wherever they need to beon the road, at home, at a customer site, in a branch office. With Catos SASE platform, branches send data along encrypted tunnels across Internet last miles to the nearest PoP.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Googles recent announcement of the GCP Network Connectivity Center (NCC) joins other similar services such as Amazons AWS Transit Gateway and Microsofts Azure Virtual WAN. Private backbones enable high quality connections that don’t rely on the public Internet. The question is where do they fit in the traffic flow?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With the widespread adoption of cloud services and remote work, and the broadening distribution of applications and employees away from traditional corporate locations, organizations require a more flexible and scalable approach to network security. But adoption paths can vary widely.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While there is some overlap in what the two technologies offer in fact, SD-WAN is a component of SASE there are significant differences in capabilities, not the least of which is network security. The global network connects and secures all edgesall locations, all users regardless of where they are, all clouds, and all applications.

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Kentik

MAY 8, 2023

While redundancy is a significant contributor to network resilience, other mechanisms, protocols, and methods can also contribute to overall network resilience. Additional network resilience mechanisms Successfully routing a packet over the internet from its source to its destination is not trivial.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

With the promise of greater performance, network service providers are actively stepping up their testing and trials. Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

Mobile users Some network setups do not visibility or control for mobile access to cloud applications. In these kinds of setups, mobile users are either connected directly, bypassing corporate network security policies, or they are forced through a specific network location, which affects performance.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

The global backbone that supports the Cato Network is one of the most important aspects of the platform. The backbone includes over 45 PoPs across the globe interconnected via multiple SLA-backed ISPs (Internet Service Providers). The Cato Cloud has a built-in network security stack that includes: Next-Generation Firewall.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It is easy for an enterprise to fall into a false sense of security because they can view all the traffic traversing MPLS links. The problem is today enterprise WANs are a mix of MPLS, Internet-based VPNs, mobile users, and cloud services.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

This couldnt have come at a better time… Employees have been blowing up the helpdesk, complaining about slow internet, laggy Zoom calls and demos that disconnect with prospects. True, SD-WAN will lower the bill and optimize spend by leveraging internet circuits massive capacity and availability everywhere. Find an alternative.

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