CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Not only did backhauling remote user cloud traffic add latency to Adrolls cloud user experience , but it also saturated the San Francisco Internet connection and created availability problems, as the San Francisco firewall had no geo-redundancy. Once the VPN on our primary firewall rebooted. Suddenly 100 engineers couldnt work anymore.

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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. Users increasingly complained about their Internet performance. But they rejected the idea.

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

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CATO Networks

MARCH 7, 2023

Traditional approaches anchored only to on-premises solutions at the corporate internet gateway no longer work in the new anywhere, anytime, with any device environment that the pandemic accelerated, SDxCentral quoted Sanchez. To increase VPN server capacity, IT must deploy new appliances or upgrade existing ones.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2016

To securely connect users at any company location to business applications, or to secure traffic over the internet, we could either connect remote sites with an appliance on the perimeter site, or backhaul all the traffic to a datacenter. Backhaul traffic through the company datacenter and exit to the internet from a central location.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2024

If youre an administrator running Ivanti VPN (Connect Secure and Policy Secure) appliances in your network, then the past two months have likely made you wish you weren’t. In a relatively short timeframe bad news kept piling up for Ivanti Connect Secure VPN customers, starting on Jan. x), Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x,

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

First, the growth in Internet- and cloud-bound traffic is accelerating the introduction of direct secure Internet access at branch locations. SD-WAN Edge Challenges A typical SD-WAN solution includes SD-WAN edge appliances which enable organizations to use multiple transports (MPLS and Internet) in branch locations.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2020

The criminal group also threatened to publish sensitive data from the car parts supplier on the internet, unless a ransom was paid. Both attacks demonstrate how vulnerable todays businesses are when connected to the public internet and adequate protection is not deployed. We also address the shortcomings of VPNs.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Weve all heard of AV and VPN, but there are many more cybersecurity-related acronyms and abbreviations that are worth taking note of. ZTNA Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), also called a software-defined perimeter (SDP), is an alternative to Virtual Private Network (VPN) for secure remote access.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

For example, an MPLS connection and an Internet connection. Internet Backhaul moving large amounts of data between major data aggregation points. Secure Web Gateway a cloud-based solution that filters unwanted software/malware from user-initiated Internet traffic and enables granular and central security policy creation.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2015

This was the way firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, email security gateways, data loss prevention and other security systems were implemented. An early approach was to use VPN connections into the enterprise. But the users could still access the Internet-at-large without going through the network security stack.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, on the user side, enterprises are grappling with the limitations of VPNs, which were once the go-to solution for secure remote access. The VPN Dilemma VPNs, while effective for basic remote access, often fall short in addressing the evolving security and performance needs of modern enterprises.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

company is based on full mesh VPN tunnels over the internet between commercial firewalls. All enterprise locations were backhauling traffic over the internet to a datacenter that hosts an internal SAP instance. Challenge The WAN for J.s This option gives us substantial cost savings in hardware refreshes and software licenses.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

With more assets in the cloud, branch offices were required to send traffic back to the secure Internet gateway in the datacenter. Furthermore, their ability to extract value out of every bit of capacity became less relevant when with Internet prices offices could have 20x more capacity than they did with MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Cato Cloud replaces your secure web gateways, MPLS backbones, SD-WAN and WAN optimization appliances, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), and on-premises firewalls, UTM, and VPN appliances.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Alongside MPLS, Internet links co-existed as a lower quality and inexpensive alternative, which didnt come with the performance and uptime guarantees of dedicated connectivity. Many organizations ended up integrating both into their networking environments in an active (MPLS), and passive backup (Internet).

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CATO Networks

JUNE 16, 2020

Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In order for companies to realize SD-WANs cost savings and cloud performance benefits, branch offices must be connected directly to and communicate across the Internet. Traffic Protection The reliance on the public Internet requires the SD-WAN to protect traffic against eavesdropping. This requires a shift in our security models.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

Zscaler offered a secure web gateway (SWG) as a service. It solved an urgent problem – users wanted direct internet access from anywhere without the need to backhaul to corporate VPN concentrators appliances or data center firewalls.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 7, 2020

Incorporating the Internet into the enterprise network reduces costs and lets companies connect resources anywhere, but security is paramount. Current services include a next-gen firewall/VPN, Secure Web Gateway, Advanced Threat Prevention, Cloud and Mobile Access Protection, and a Managed Threat Detection and Response (MDR) service.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Nearly as many also cite reducing/eliminating internet-facing attack surface for network and application resources and improving remote user security. Others are vexed by the cost, poor security, and limited scalability of VPN infrastructure.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional VPN solutions enable connectivity for mobile and remote employees but do little to enable the same visibility and control possible on-premises. 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

MAY 16, 2018

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. They had IPsec VPN from each store to the datacenter. Protection was particularly important as employees accessed the Internet directly.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

For all of its talk, SASE as understood by much of the industry, will not completely replace a global MPLS network; the Internet is simply too unpredictable for that. NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. Just check out what our customers say if you want first-hand proof.)

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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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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

Unlike dynamic routes, learned through dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) or EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol), static routes require the network administrator to specify the next hop or destination IP address. A static route is a manually configured path in a routing table.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

But, ensuring performance, security and user experience for WFA users with traditional remote-access VPN is mission impossible for IT teams. Step 3: Introduce Security – Deploy functions like NGFW, Web gateways IPS, anti-malware, zero trust as existing applications meet end-of-life or cant scale, or to new edges.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Zero Trust Architecture represents a fundamental shift from traditional castle-and-moat solutions such as Internet-based VPN appliances for remote network access. Zero Trust Architecture is simply a network design that implements zero trust principles.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2017

With a spoofed WLAN, the attackers can see the traffic traversing their sites as well as modify the HTML and the JavaScript contained in HTTP requests Most Internet traffic from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) mobile users is encrypted either by the companys VPN or by HTTPS.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 20, 2019

Third- party services deliver network functionalities such as VPN, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD). The backbone includes over 45 PoPs across the globe interconnected via multiple SLA-backed ISPs (Internet Service Providers). Secure Web Gateway. At a high level, everybody wins.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Limited scalability NGFWs and UTMs have a limited amount of capacity to run engines for anti-malware, IPS, and secure web gateway (SWG). Further, since appliances are scattered throughout the network, as opposed to integrated with it, blind spots can become a real challenge.

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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 28, 2022

You have network firewalls, internet gateways, CASB engines, VPN concentrators, anti-malware engines, Intrusion Prevention Systems ( IPS ) and many more. The Cato Solution Weve been talking in metaphors during this article, but lets drop the pretence and start talking directly.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Another factor is the Internets erraticness and, as such, the inability to leave a costly MPLS service. Now we can use a socket, a VPN tunnel, or the mobile client, depending on location and user requirements. Today, most Internet traffic is encrypted, limiting the visibility of many traditional IT tools.

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

Internal communications routed over internet gateways and driving up costs. Abandoned gateways and subnets configured with overlapping IP space. And the cloud vendors’ management interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN.

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The Network DNA

JANUARY 22, 2025

Troubleshooting an IPsec VPN issue on a Palo Alto Networks firewall in 9 steps Step 1# Verify VPN Configuration Check the IPsec Tunnel Settings: Ensure that both sides of the tunnel (Palo Alto firewall and the remote peer) have matching configurations: IKE Version: Verify if IKEv1 or IKEv2 is being used and ensure both ends match.

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