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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Unmasking the Challenges of Blocking Malicious IP Addresses

CATO Networks

In the ever-evolving threat landscape, identifying and blocking malicious IP addresses is an essential defense mechanism. Unlike domain names, the registration details for IP addresses are less transparent, making it more challenging to access ownership information, registration dates, and the responsible parties.

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Cato SASE Cloud: Enjoy Simplified Configuration and Centralized, Global Policy Delivery

CATO Networks

This includes elements like IP address, subnet, username, group membership, hostname, remote user, site, and more. Additionally, policy rules can be further refined based on application context including application (custom applications too), application categories, service, port range, domain name, and more.

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Accurate Visibility with NetFlow, sFlow, and IPFIX

Kentik

For example, with a forged source-address DDoS attack, every packet can be a flow, and routers have to try to maintain massive tables on the fly to track those flows! If you’re looking to examine traffic coming from individual client machines in an SMB or even an enterprise network setting, then that increased granularity is helpful.