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

MAY 5, 2016

MPLS cost reduction is the target of the emerging SD-WAN market that is bustling with solutions looking to take the corporate wide area network to a whole new level. MPLS isnt encrypted by default: MPLS relies on the carrier private network for security because the data doesnt flow on the public Internet.

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CATO Networks

JULY 19, 2023

I read with some surprise the interview with Zscalers CEO, Jay Chaudry, in CRN where he stated that the network firewalls will go the way of the mainframe, that the network is just plumbing and that Zscaler proxy overlay architecture will replace it with its application switchboard. This is my take. Jay has always been a visionary.

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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 3, 2020

Yes, the stars shifted in 2019, as the industry adoption of Catos revolutionary approach to networking and security came in the form of Gartners Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture. SASE Makes Catos Convergence of Networking and Security into the Industry Standard In mid-2019, the Cato vision became part of a Gartner trend.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 1, 2017

While SD-WANs are a valuable first step towards evolving the wide area network , they only address a small part of the dissolved enterprise perimeter challenge. Networking, security, and mobility technologies are deployed and operated independently. As such, critical information becomes siloed behind disparate tools.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

Align the Network to Business Requirements When organizations purchase computers for employees we try to maximize our investment by aligning device cost and configuration to user function. Short-term connections can be set up with 4G/LTE and, depending on the service, mobile users can be connected with VPN clients.

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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. Internet providers dump packets on peering networks depending on the economic realities, adversely impacting application performance. What will that new SD-WAN look like?

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