CATO Networks

JULY 29, 2018

The appliance form factor including the cost of hardware, software, and expert staff to maintain it is a burden which SD-WAN eliminates with Firewall as a Service (FWaaS). They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). MPLS was not designed for this new reality.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2021

As enterprises set out to modernize their networks, SD-WAN has become a key networking technology for connecting offices. Buy more VPN servers? And 90 percent of the capabilities of routers, firewalls, and now, SD-WAN are common across vendors. But with COVID-19, users transitioned to work at home, not in the office.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

For global companies still operating with a legacy WAN architecture, WAN modernization is mandatory today for a variety of reasons. SD-WAN is a very broad category. If a company chooses the wrong SD-WAN, it can be detrimental to the business. Global companies have unique networking needs.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? Heres a list of the key acronyms to help you keep up with the latest in WAN transformation. By choosing the best available path, SD-WAN provides better performance and reliability than broadband Internet.

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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

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 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

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

MARCH 7, 2023

Gartner has already predicted in The Top 5 Trends in Enterprise Networking and Why They Matter: A Gartner Trend Insight Report (subscription required) that by 2025, 50% of SD-WAN purchases will be part of a single vendor SASE offering, up from less than 10% in 2021.And Remote users struggle with connecting using legacy VPN software.

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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

MAY 24, 2020

It is speculated that the attack on Travelex became possible because the company had failed to patch vulnerable VPN servers. The Cato Approach Here at Cato Networks, we have developed a solution to the security problem of unpatched VPN servers. We also address the shortcomings of VPNs.

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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

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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Why remote access should be a collaboration between network & security | Whitepaper Where Legacy Secure Remote Access Falls Short With a growing percentage of corporate workforces working on remote or hybrid schedules, a secure remote access VPN is essential. In many cases, companies are reliant on VPNs to provide this capability.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 14, 2022

At first, IT teams tried to deal with the new situation by stacking up legacy VPN servers. The Hybrid Workforce: Planning for the New Working Reality | EBOOK Requirement #1: Seamless Transition Between Home and Office Most traditional infrastructure, namely MPLS, SD-WAN and NGFW/UTM, is focused on the office.

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Network Engineering

AUGUST 19, 2020

WAN > OPNsense (in ESXi)> switch (C3560G) OPNsense is DHCP server Thing is that i would like the switch to deal with the DHCP, to avoid being naked when ESXi needs maintenance. Also need to setup a VPN on OPNsense but will that be possible if 3560 is acting as the DHCP server? dns-server 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.0

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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

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. George tried a carrier-managed SD-WAN service, but found himself back in the world of MPLS-like thinking.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Be it power supplies, servers, routers, load balancers, proxies, or any other physical and virtual network components, the horizontal scaling that redundancy provides is the ultimate safety net in the presence of failure or atypical traffic demands.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Top Five Ways to Improve Network Performance Reduce latency, add capacity, and/or compensate for jitter and loss are obvious high-level answers to most WAN optimization challenges, but doing so effectively is where the real challenge lies. As a result, businesses turned to SD-WAN and Internet-based VPN solutions as an alternative.

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CATO Networks

MAY 21, 2018

Servers operations, virtualization, app development, networking and others live in silos. VPNs are one possibility but they are a headache to set up and manage and dont always work. Many hotels, airports and other public locations block VPN access causing access problems. IT departments love their silos.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The final step in the journey will be to combine the SSE capabilities with the cloud-delivered connectivity and control services such as SD-WAN and FWaaS to complement Internet security and provide the best performances and protection when accessing corporate assets. Cato SASE capabilities 14.

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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. Just to be clear, what do I mean by cloud? routers and switches).

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The CPU and server costs, rack space, and power required to meet the same performance footprint of a dedicated solution end up being as expensive as or more than custom-designed alternatives. link] Limited Connectivity Capabilities Most off-the-shelf vCPE/uCPE hardware features Ethernet ports to connect to the WAN, but little more.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

But, ensuring performance, security and user experience for WFA users with traditional remote-access VPN is mission impossible for IT teams. Step 2: Complement MPLS – Deploy SASE where MPLS is unavailable or too expensive, to improve connectivity to WAN applications. The rest of the network and MPLS connections remain unmodified.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2020

The same software running QoS and path selection of SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and other networking functions is also the same software doing security inspection and policy enforcement. Too often thats not the case, which had led to attacks through VPN servers , routers, and, yes, third-party SD-WAN appliances.

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CATO Networks

MAY 21, 2018

The photos and the actual HTML page content are often served from a separate web server using separate sessions of only few milliseconds. SD-WAN: A Safer Way to Use the Internet While this may seem daunting, there is a new hope on the horizon. SD-WAN is offering an alternative to traditional corporate networks.

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Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

And the cloud vendors’ management interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. Fifteen years ago you couldn’t launch a new business or even run a school without having a server, a switch, and a router sitting in a rack somewhere. But those days are gone.

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