CATO Networks

MAY 20, 2020

Since the release of Gartners Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) last April, ZTNA has been one of the biggest buzzwords in network security, and for good reason. A policy of zero trust helps enterprises limit exposure to the myriad of threats facing the modern network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Maybe youre an IT manager or a network engineer. Its about a year before your MPLS contract expires, and youve been told to cut costs by your CFO. That MPLS too expensive. Lengthy lead-times for site installations (weeks to months,) upgrades, and never-ending rounds of support tickets must all factor into the TCO of your MPLS.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2016

SD-WAN uses a software-based control plane to drive on-premise edge devices to dynamically allocate Wide Area Network (WAN) traffic between MPLS and Internet links. Lets start with the network. The core networking and network security layers of the IT infrastructure remained separate for more than 20 years.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Multinational corporations have traditionally needed global MPLS services to build their WAN. That has changed now that secure, global SD-WAN as a Service is available worldwide. The MPLS Story Global MPLS networks allow for different in-country providers of MPLS services to connect as one network.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 11, 2016

We have written in the past about the trombone effect or the implications of traffic backhauling on network security and the user experience. Backhauling is a way a network team is solving a security problem: providing secure internet access for all locations. Which approach is better?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 19, 2018

Born alongside the expensive MPLS data service, WAN optimization appliances allowed organizations to squeeze more bandwidth out of thin pipes through compression and deduplication, as well as prioritizing traffic of loss-sensitive applications such as remote desktops. Network security is built into the Cato Cloud.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 22, 2017

Its not just about cutting the cost of their existing MPLS-based WANs. Todays business has evolved significantly since the adoption of MPLS-based WANs. Per user bandwidth consumption has likely grown significantly since your organization adopted an MPLS-based WAN. Mobile users and the cloud are ignored by MPLS.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In short, SD-WAN aims to remove the constraints of legacy connectivity technologies, namely MPLS and the unmanaged public Internet , ushering a new age of flexible, resilient and secure networks. As such, SD-WANs impact on the substantial ongoing IT investment in MPLS is limited. Enter SD-WAN.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Most enterprises look at SD-WAN as an MPLS alternative , hoping to reduc e their MPLS connectivity costs. But the actual SD-WAN ROI is a mix of hard and soft savi n gs from increasing overall network capacity and availability to a reduc ed operational load of managing and securing the network.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It was designed for permanent, static locations connected via expensive, MPLS links. The legacy WAN slows us down when we need a quick turnaround for new sites, on a deadline to split networks due to spin-offs, or are rushing to securely integrate acquisitions. First, the WAN is slow to evolve. This is called a hybrid WAN.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) promised to address the high costs, rigidity and limitations of private MPLS services. SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. Yes, there are good reasons for MPLS higher costs.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Traditionally, Wide Area Networks (WANs) and network security were loosely coupled entities. Networking teams focussed on the connectivity between locations; security teams focussed on protecting against malware threats and other external or application-layer security issues.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2018

MPLS networks have been the standard configuration for enterprise networks for years, providing predictability and availability. However dependable, MPLS comes with its own set of challenges, such as expensive connectivity and long deployment times.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Here are the most viewed assets of 2016… Global Network Security Report Top Networking and Security Challenges in the Enterprise In this insightful report , 700 networking, security & IT pros shared their top challenges and what will drive their investments in 2017. Drop the Box!

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CATO Networks

JULY 2, 2017

They require direct Internet access to minimize the latency of accessing cloud- and Internet-based resources from across MPLS services. However, most SD-WANs lack the next generation firewall, IPS, and the rest of the advanced security stack needed to protect the branch.

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2016

However, we view the opportunity more broadly through the convergence of both Software-defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and network security in the Cloud. The Cloud doesn’t merely transform the firewall form factor, but also enables a whole new connectivity and security architecture.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Internet infrastructure is often less developed, which can lead to problems such as packet loss over the last mile. At the same time, MPLS circuits can be quite costly and take many months to install. Still, a reliable Internet link may be unavailable, requiring the purchase of MPLS last mile.

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CATO Networks

MAY 31, 2017

Accessing the cloud and the Internet from remote locations becomes more important. Along the way we wanted to answer some fundamental questions including: Is SD-WAN replacing MPLS? What impact, if any, will SD-WANs have for network security? All of which is why Cato has sought to make network and security simple again.

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CATO Networks

MAY 16, 2018

Our 2018 survey included over 700 respondents from IT enterprises that currently run MPLS backbones. As cyberattacks increase and evolve, effective network security is critical. Forty-two percent said it reduced the cost of MPLS service. Protection was particularly important as employees accessed the Internet directly.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2020

IT now need to connect the new European branches to the companys applications in the US with guaranteed performance and availability, and without compromising on security. There is an alternative approach to such scenarios, and it is called a Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE in short. So lets compare the old way with the new.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

As mobile users connect directly to the internet through unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and offices access cloud resources via direct internet access, the attack surface grows. This, at a time when security teams already struggle to keep ahead of threat actors and new attack vectors.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It could change your entire approach to network security, and help save your sanity. Gone are the days when it was simple and effective to connect remote sites with a perimeter firewall, or backhaul traffic to a datacenter to keep companies secure and functional. Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) is the future of network security.

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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

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. SD-WAN has emerged as a popular alternative to MPLS.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 21, 2019

WAN costs can be reduced by up to 90% because the dedicated private WAN connections, typically MPLS, are replaced with lower cost broadband connections. Physical security appliances will still need to be scaled, patched, and upgraded. The cloud security services only inspect Internet-bound traffic and focus only on HTTP/HTTPS traffic.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 25, 2017

Over the past two decades, carriers have built massive global networking platforms that are faithfully serving many enterprises. MPLS-based services are under pressure from emerging Internet-based solutions. This strategy is attempting to patch the carrier MPLS cash cow and slow its decline. At a premium cost.

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CATO Networks

JULY 26, 2022

The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. But just as were getting used to the toddling SD-WAN, along came yet another even more exciting newborn, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). But with multiple brains, HA becomes far more challenging.

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CATO Networks

JULY 15, 2020

To achieve this Gartner outlined four characteristics an SD-WAN solution should include: The ability to replace legacy WAN routers and support multiple transport links such as MPLS, Internet, and LTE. SD-WAN presents an affordable and flexible replacement for MPLS without the complexities associated with traditional WANs.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security. SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture offering optimized traffic routing over multiple different media (broadband, MPLS, 5G/LTE, etc.). A LAN is connected to the Internet via one or more ISPs.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 20, 2023

Impact of Network Redundancy Network redundancy is designed to ensure that no single point of failure exists within an organizations network infrastructure. This benefits the modern business in numerous ways: Security: Network outages occur, and the impact can be measured in numerous ways, including the network security impact.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 19, 2018

For the past two years, Cato Networks has led a revolution in enterprise networking: the convergence of software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) and network security delivered as a single cloud service. For decades, networking and security evolved as silos, creating separate point products in each category.

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Kentik

JUNE 7, 2017

However, “success in this arena needs to be based on establishing long-term customer relationships, not offering a quick fix to the need for Internet offload or cheaper connections than MPLS can provide,” according to Bill Grubbs, network solutions architect with CenturyLink.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network. The Internet Limits Peak Performance Applications remain constrained by Internet performance.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 16, 2019

Ransomware makes use of backdoor entry predominantly, compromising the network security as well as the data security. With small branch offices often lax in their security policies, they become a favorite entry port for all too many attackers. Personal mobile devices are another critical entry point.

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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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