Packet Pushers

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today's podcast episode revisits the subject of IPv6 address allocation along with how changes in network planning and Regional Internet Registry (RIR) policy are influencing allocation size requests. We also look at how network trends around IoT, cloud, and SD-WAN might affect allocation size and how to overcome "IPv4 thinking."

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Challenge The WAN for J.s 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. This option gives us substantial cost savings in hardware refreshes and software licenses.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

SD-WAN continues to be one of the fastest growing industries across the globe. The list of SD-WAN events and conferences scheduled for 2019 is already quite impressive, and its already on our agenda to start marking our calendars for the upcoming year as the 2018 year begins to wind down. Revenues increased 83.3%

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Some of the main contributors to these challenges include: Evolving Networks: Corporate networks have grown and evolved rapidly in recent years with the adoption of cloud computing, remote work, and Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 Here are those headlines and more: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN market ‘two-horse race’ (SDxCentral). WAN to their capability sets, especially since the technology is key to supporting connectivity in the multi-clouds that enterprises are building.”.

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Kentik

APRIL 26, 2017

What is not fully understood is the extent of its impact on the normal flow of Internet traffic,” reports Hippensteel. 8 DDoS Attacks That Made Enterprises Rethink IoT Security (CRN) DDoS attacks via IoT devices have wreaked havoc on universities, Netflix, Twitter and even banks in Russia.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 23, 2019

The infamous malware that crippled global DNS provider Dyn, French Web host OVH and security journalist Brain Krebs Web site with botnets of infected home routers, baby monitors and other IoT devices is now infecting enterprise network equipment, according to a recent Palo Alto Networks blog and Network Computing article.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Organizations need to protect themselves from the risks of running their business over the internet and processing sensitive data in the cloud. 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. See Figure 1 below.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Corporate WAN is Rapidly Changing In the past, the majority of an organizations IT assets were located on-prem. Internet of Things (IoT) devices including both commercial and consumer systems are connected to corporate networks. Often, these solutions adapt poorly to securing the modern, distributed corporate WAN.

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CATO Networks

JULY 24, 2024

Flexibility to support varying infrastructure and end-devices needs like IT and IoT. How SASE Can Answer Healthcare and Pharma Needs SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), is an innovative networking and security solution that converges SD-WAN and security functions into a single, global, cloud-native solution.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 6, 2021

If youre looking for more incisive perspective on the trend towards merging WAN and security in the cloud, check out Forresters January 21 report, Introducing the Zero Trust Model for Security and Network Services by analysts David Holmes and Andre Kindness. Download a free copy of the new Forrester report here.

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CATO Networks

MAY 29, 2023

For example, many organizations are rapidly adopting cloud computing, and the growing maturity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has the potential to unlock new operational efficiencies. By monitoring link health and offering application-aware routing, SD-WAN optimizes the performance and reliability of the corporate WAN.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Of late, though, some network providers want to selectively deliver only part of those capabilities, such as only providing secure access to the Internet. Identities of entities can be associated with people, groups of people (branch offices), devices, applications, services, IoT systems or edge computing locations.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 29, 2019

SD-WAN is a small part of WAN transformation For those who dont follow every tick and tock of the VC world, raising such a significant sum at this time of the market is remarkable. And yet today, some 50 companies claim to have SD-WAN capabilities. Thats because the investment isnt about SD-WAN.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

How are they able to diagnose network problems that might span the cloud provider’s infrastructure, the public Internet, enterprise networks and service provider access networks? IoT is inherently digital and adoption is occurring at a rapid pace as businesses instrument the physical world with sensors spanning a wide range of environments.

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CATO Networks

JULY 25, 2023

3 Trends Impacting Networking and Security Forrester identified three converging trends that are influencing the network and security industries: A growing number of cybersecurity breaches complemented by a security skills shortage, remote work as the new reality and MPLS connections being replaced by SD-WAN. Lets delve into each one.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What WAN security solutions do enterprises need to protect their networks as we kick off the decade? However, the dynamic nature of cloud computing, the security challenges posed by mobile users , and IoT (Internet of Things) have blurred the lines that define network perimeters and created new attack surfaces.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Webinar How Application Awareness Enhances Firewall Security The Internet is increasingly dominated by HTTP(S) traffic as various applications move to web-based models with the growth of SaaS and other cloud-based services. The Future of Network Security: Do All Roads Lead to SASE?

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CATO Networks

JULY 28, 2019

Companies are shifting workloads to the cloud, increasing their use of voice and video applications, and adding thousands or even millions of new connections to support IoT devices. From MPLS to Internet and routers to SD-WAN The network of the future will reduce its reliance on MPLS in favor of Internet with SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2022

With the rise of cloud computing, remote work, and Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices, cyber threat actors have many potential targets for their attacks. Universal Protection: The corporate WAN is rapidly expanding and includes on-prem, cloud-based, and remote devices.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 17, 2018

However, while research projects will stop at scanning Internet IP-ranges for potentially open services, malicious actors will go further and attempt to hack or even gain root privilege on remote devices. They should only make them accessible via the WAN firewall to sites and mobile users connected to Cato Cloud.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications. Many enterprises are replacing their fixed MPLS wide area networks (WANs) with virtualized software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) to reduce costs.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Corporate WANs must be capable of efficiently and securely routing traffic between an organizations various network segments. Internet of Things (IoT) Devices IoT devices have the potential to increase an organizations operational efficiency and ability to make data-driven decisions.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

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. With the public Internet being the underlying network, Zscaler only option was to build its solution as an overlay proxy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Why remote access should be a collaboration between network & security | White Paper What to Look for in a Network Firewall Many organizations already have network firewalls in place; however, a network firewall designed to secure the perimeter of the corporate LAN is ill-suited to protecting a distributed enterprise WAN.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By consistently enforcing security policies and blocking attacks across the entire corporate WAN, SASE dramatically reduces an organizations cybersecurity risk. Enhancing Your Enterprise Network Security Strategy | Webinar #2. Transference Transference involves handing over responsibility for managing risk to a third-party provider.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 2, 2023

is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry as we are witnessing numerous innovative technologies such as AI, IoT, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) helping manufacturers enhance their supply chain, logistics and production lines. Industry 4.0 This ensures low latency cloud access for all users.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Companies are increasingly adopting cloud infrastructure, remote and hybrid work models, and Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. Firewalls can significantly benefit an organization by blocking inbound and WAN-bound attacks before they reach their intended targets.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2023

Corporate IT environments are becoming more distributed with the growth of cloud computing, remote sites, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and business use of mobile devices. Securing access to all of the corporate WAN often creates tradeoffs between network performance and security.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2021

merges traditional systems with new digital technologies (IoT, AI, big data, AR, robotics, M2M, real-time analytics, and so on), facilitating automation, agility, and efficiency to create a world of smart manufacturing. The fourth industrial revolution aka Industry 4.0 represents the next phase of innovation in production processes.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 23, 2017

Smith noted in his keynote that the lack of international norms guiding nation state behavior on the Internet has led us into dangerous territory where nation states take action against civilians. The Mirai botnet that launched the DDOS attack DYNs DNS, for example, used home routers, cameras and other IOT devices.

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