CATO Networks

AUGUST 15, 2023

Today, we announced that Carlsberg, the world-famous brewer, has selected Cato SASE Cloud for its global deployment. Its a massive SASE deployment spanning 200+ locations and 25,000 remote users worldwide, replacing a combination of MPLS services, VPN services, SD-WAN devices, remote access VPNs , and security appliances.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

SASE technology can help address these issues, making SASE adoption a goal for many organizations worldwide. One popular strategy is to ease into SASE by starting with security service edge (SSE) , a building block of SASE which integrates security capabilities directly into the network edge, close to where users or devices connect.

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CATO Networks

JULY 13, 2021

Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) offers security designed for the modern enterprise, including native support for remote work. SASE combines networking and security functions into a single cloud service. However, adopting SASE means that an organization needs to make major changes in how its network operates and is secured.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, with growing cloud adoption, this perimeter would need to enclose the entire Internet, making it ineffective for security. VPNs are a well-established remote access solution, and many organizations turned to them to support their remote employees. SASEs design can also eliminate the network performance impacts of security.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 5, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak led to a surge in business VPN usage in an extremely short timeframe. In fact, multiple regions saw VPN usage rise over 200% in a matter of weeks. However, as they settle into the new normal, many enterprises are also learning that there are several VPN disadvantages as well. Lets find out.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2020

Gartner believes (and we agree) that the future of networking lies with SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) the convergence ofnetworking and security into one cloud service. Many organizations ended up integrating both into their networking environments in an active (MPLS), and passive backup (Internet). There is, and its called SASE.

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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. Only by converging SASE with NaaS can companies eliminate costly, legacy MPLS services. Its why SASE has emerged to be such a dominant force.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Transforming Networking and Security for the Modern Enterprise In 2019, Gartner outlined a new architecture, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) , as the blueprint for converging a wide range of networking and security functions into a global cloud service.

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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. Theyve dubbed this converged architecture SASE, or secure access service edge. SASE moves security out of the legacy datacenter and closer to where users, data and applications reside today.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 27, 2022

As a result, many companies attempted to meet the needs of their remote workforce via remote access VPNs with varying levels of success. What is a Remote Access VPN and How Does it Work? A remote access virtual private network (VPN) is a solution designed to securely connect a remote user to the enterprise network.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. 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.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

Buy more VPN servers? The Internet is everywhere. Making the Technology Transition to SASE SD-WAN is a sophisticated technology, but its meant for meeting the challenges of yesterday not to tomorrow. The post SD-WAN or SASE: The Power is in the Platform appeared first on Cato Networks. Whats the alternative?

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) When a branch office is down, users work from remote, connecting back via the Internet to the VPN in the data center. With SASE, a single, global network connects and secures all sites, cloud resources, and remote users.

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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

MARCH 10, 2022

Weve been touting the real-world benefits of Cato SASE on our Web site and in seminars, case studies, and solution briefs since the company was founded, but how do those benefits translate into hard numbers? After Cato , all of the updates and most of the management were simply delegated to the Cato SASE Cloud. That was amazing.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 23, 2020

At the same time this unprecedented shift to remote work is occurring, businesses are realizing traditional enterprise remote access solutions, like Internet-based VPN, often arent capable of addressing all the needs of large-scale work from home. As a result, user experience and productivity can suffer. Unreliable performance.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2023

Historically, virtual private networks (VPNs) were the only available solution, and this familiarity has driven many organizations to expand their existing VPN infrastructure as the need for secure remote access has grown. While VPNs can protect against eavesdroppers, thats about all that they can do.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies looking to provide secure remote access to their off-site employees have largely chosen to expand their existing virtual private network (VPN) deployments. VPNs are ill-suited to meeting modern business needs and will only become less so in the future. Moving Beyond the VPN A remote access VPN is a thing of the past.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 28, 2022

There is a common clich that is often thrown around during SASE vendor discussions you are comparing apples to oranges. So, let us take a look at what this expression means, and why we should compare apples and oranges when evaluating SASE solutions. The post Evaluating SASE Vendors?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many companies that already offered VPN services to a small group of remote workers scurried to extend those capabilities to the much larger workforce sequestering at home. VPNs are certainly one option, but not the only one. Other choices include appliance-based SD-WAN and SASE. Lets have a look at each approach.

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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. SASE Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud-based solution that converges network and security functionalities. SASE solutions use DPI to support its integrated security functions.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They may use unsecured public Internet connections that are vulnerable to eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. Virtual Private Network (VPN) Since the mid-1990s, VPNs have been the most common and well-known form of secure remote access. VPNs provide point-to-point connectivity.

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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

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

MAY 12, 2020

Current solutions, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) servers, provide connectivity for some users, some of the time. But VPN servers cant support all the users, all the time which is exactly whats needed to continue your business during a global crisis. VPN provides secure access at network level, rather than at application level.

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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.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 31, 2020

VPN Vulnerabilities Jeopardize Remote Access Of course, some patches are more important than others. Last year CERT issued a warning about security vulnerabilities in various VPN devices that were storing session cookies improperly. If we eliminate the appliance architecture, we can eliminate the overhead and risk of patches.

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CATO Networks

JULY 27, 2021

This leaves the enterprise vulnerable to phishing and other Internet-borne attacks. Early in the pandemic, the limitations of virtual private networks (VPNs) became plain as a massive increase in remote workers overloaded existing infrastructure. In January 2021, 19% were actively planning for a SASE deployment in the next 12 months.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It turns out that the solution enterprises say they want is found in what SASE already delivers. VPNs were the primary method of connectivity for road warriors and people who occasionally worked from home or away from the office. It was standard procedure for an enterprise to build VPN capacity for a small percentage of its workforce.

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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. Ever Heard of SASE?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

This blog post breaks down the considerations and requirements of strategic change, while comparing two courses of action – transforming early or waiting for the last minute – and proposes a plan for gradual adoption of SASE. This begs the question, how can IT teams adopt SASE without disrupting the business?

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Under this model, insiders connected directly or via a VPN are granted unrestricted access to corporate networks, systems, and applications. Due to the limitations of VPNs, the focus of zero trust discussions is often on controlling users access to corporate resources.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The infrastructure needed to support these remote users, virtual private network (VPN) solutions, was built for the brave few and not for the masses. During the first wave of COVID-19, IT had to throw money and hardware at the problem, stacking up legacy VPN servers all over the world to catch up with the demand.

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CATO Networks

JULY 25, 2023

Lets take a look at a typical organizations security stack for the cloud: SWG and CASB solutions secure user access to the internet and to cloud applications. Cato SSE 360 is the security pillar of Catos SASE cloud, providing total visibility, optimization and control. they examine HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

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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. When SDP is part of a larger SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform, enterprises gain additional security and performance benefits as well.

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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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