CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

One prominent alternative is Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platforms with embedded Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) that alleviate the security dangers and other disadvantages of VPN. VPNs Put Remote Access Security at High Risk In general, VPNs provide minimal security with traffic encryption and simple user authentication.

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4sysops

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to a study conducted by Top10VPN in collaboration with researcher Mathy Vanhoef, many internet hosts do not verify the sender’s identity when accepting tunneling packets, posing a risk for hijacking and facilitating anonymous attacks. million systems, including VPN servers and routers, are… Read more

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As remote and hybrid work schedules become more common, companies are deploying secure remote access solutions, such as virtual private networks (VPNs) to support them. High-Performance Internet Access is Essential for the Modern Business In the past, most of an organizations employees worked on-site.

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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 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

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. And 28% reported a growth of at least 200%.

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Due to security and compliance concerns, some vendors handling such sensitive data cannot expose services to the public Internet and therefore host their own on-premise data centers. We considered two common approaches for linking on-premise data centers with the AWS cloud: Site-to-Site VPN and Direct Connect.

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SysAdmin1138 Explains

JULY 21, 2023

This story begins in the previous decade when Google put forth the "Zero Trust framework" as a way to get rid of the corporate VPN. Zero Trust was a suite of techniques to allow companies to do away with the expensive and annoying to maintain VPN. If that wasn't enough, Phishing the VPN certificates would do the trick.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet. Keep in mind however, that unless SD-WAN is deployed as part of SASE, it cant support global connectivity, network optimization, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote users.

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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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The Network DNA

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

NDNA-ASA(config-if)# nameif dmz NDNA-ASA(config-if)# security-level 70 NDNA-ASA(config-if)# no shut Configure static NAT to the DMZ server using a network object NDNA-ASA(config)# object network dmz-server NDNA-ASA(config-network-object)# host 10.10.2.3 10.10.10.100 inside NDNA-ASA(config)# dhcpd dns 112.110.112.5 255.255.255.0

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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. wasnt built with cloud services and remote users in mind. The same is true for cloud connections.

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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. The client/server architecture of point solutions simply isnt scalable.

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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

MAY 21, 2018

Todays business lives and depends on the Internet. More and more companies rely on the Internet for voice and video. The public Internet, though, is a challenging environment to deliver business-quality real-time services. The public Internet reorganizes to solve issues without regard for the impact on applications.

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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

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

JULY 29, 2015

An early approach was to use VPN connections into the enterprise. A user would authenticate to a VPN server (often part of the firewall) and than be allowed to access an internal resource like a file share or a mail server. How did enterprises deal with this issue?

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Pet Lovers had already connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). Routers at every store directed point-of-sale (POS) traffic across the IPsec VPN to firewalls in the company’s Singapore datacenter housing its POS servers.

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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. CVE-2024-21888: Privilege Escalation (CVSS 8.8)

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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. With a VPN, all communication between the user and the VPN is encrypted. Stolen VPN credentials have been implicated in several high-profile data breaches.

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CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

The network perimeter has dissolved with IaaS, SaaS, and mobile users breaking that barrier and shifting more traffic to the Internet. They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). Protection was particularly important as employees accessed the Internet directly.

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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

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

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

MARCH 4, 2018

Internet-bound traffic was backhauled to Arlington, which had a 100 Mbits/s Internet connection secured by another firewall appliance. Firewall appliances at each location were connected by meshed, point-to-point, virtual private networks (VPNs). Servers located in Arlington were accessed by the branch locations.

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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

MARCH 20, 2017

The POC was able to generate the so called Blue Screen of Death on Windows clients that connects into a compromised SMB server. Vulnerabilities in SMB servers should be treated very seriously. If attackers compromise an SMB server in the organization, they can exploit SMB vulnerabilities as part of wider lateral movement.

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Kentik

JUNE 4, 2019

By the end of this post you should have a pretty good idea of how True Origin helps network operations and engineering, particularly for Internet Service Providers. That’s why True Origin is a major step forward for every ISP carrying a significant volume of Internet-sourced content. What is True Origin? Are more needed?

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, the trombone effect (the inefficient backhauling of cloud bound traffic through a specific network endpoint) often meant MPLS connectivity to cloud assets was worse than standard Internet connections. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative. The solution?

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Until just a few years ago, enterprise networks were predominantly comprised solely of one or more private data centers connected to a series of campuses and branch offices by a private WAN that was based on MPLS VPN technology from a major telecom carrier. The effect on network traffic is profound. routers and switches).

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

He explains the importance of considering Internet transport for global connections, managing CPE, and securing branch offices. Broadband Internet transport is fine for short distances but it can add significant latency in global connections. Frankfurt to Shanghai 1.99 San Jose to Shanghai 3.97

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Kentik

AUGUST 4, 2017

Also in the news this week, China and Russia both cracked down on VPN usage. Here are those headlines and more: How Netflix DDoS’ed Itself to Protect the Entire Internet (Wired) In a Wired feature out this week, Scott Behrens, a security engineer at Netflix, talks about how the streaming giant tests DDoS attacks.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to SD-WAN, he concedes: Theres a huge business case that SD-WAN products are aiming to solve: replacing traditional MPLS/VPN networks with encrypted transport over public Internet.Internet access is often orders of magnitude cheaper than traditional circuits.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Today, some organizations are not yet ready to fully transition to SASE for various reasons, but they are ready to adopt SSE because they recognize the benefits in adopting cloud-delivered security services such as SWG, CASB, and ZTNA to protect their offices and remote users when accessing the public Internet.

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Kentik

JANUARY 19, 2018

Cloudflare Access aims to replace corporate VPNs (TechCrunch) “Essentially Cloudflare is doing the important part of the VPN — inspecting certificates and traffic, establishing a chain of trust for packets — in a less clunky way and one that enables companies to let data live on cloud services instead of internal servers,” reported TechCrunch.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

Buy more VPN servers? The Internet is everywhere. As enterprises set out to modernize their networks, SD-WAN has become a key networking technology for connecting offices. But with COVID-19, users transitioned to work at home, not in the office. Whats the alternative? Processing resources are ubiquitous in the cloud.

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