Security is a key benefit of using cloud-based networking services. And Cato Networks is kicking it up a notch by adding threat hunting as a service to its cloud network.

Seventy-four percent of medium-size to large enterprises participating in a survey by IHS Markit conducted SD-WAN lab trials last year. The survey found that many will move to production trials and live production this year.

Three-quarters of medium-to-large businesses have conducted a trial for SD-WAN, according to a new report by IHS Markit.
The “WAN Strategies” North American survey found that 74 percent of respondents tried out the technology in a lab setting last year.

Cato Networks, provider of Cato Cloud, the world’s first secure, global SD-WAN as a service, today released the findings of its enterprise WAN market study

Being a successful SD-WAN provider takes continuous innovation in a highly competitive field

FWaaS Market size is expected to grow from USD 0.56 Billion in 2017 to USD 1.70 Billion by 2022

Westcon-Comstor has forged an Australia and New Zealand distribution partnership with Cato Networks

Slow websites will always be a chief complaint from customers and consumers.

Nick Booth finds a further three firms that are looking for channel support and keen to get relationships with resellers

he Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) underlying the Internet was envisioned before video, VoIP, and the cloud typified our use of the Internet.

The exponentially rising cases of cyber-attacks, which have practically plagued every industry, is one of the most profound factors driving firewall as a service market share.

Is plugging in an SD-WAN box sufficient in an age of rapidly evolving technology?

The cloud has changed how companies build their IT teams, and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) changed the way we thought about SAP.

SD-WAN supplier Cato Networks is set on carving out a corner of the SD-WAN market in competition with major telcos — and the company is not alone.

TPx Communications has added a new master-agent partner to distribute its services.

“For my customers, the death of MPLS started yesterday,” Toth told Channel Partners. “Not a year from now, not two years from now; it started yesterday.”

Israeli-based startup Cato Networks has been experiencing a lot of growth in the cloud services industry and this means it is increasingly encroaching into Verizon and AT&T territory.

Strong fiscal growth, visionary innovation leads hundreds of companies to transform their networks with Cato’s converged SD-WAN

Analysts are projecting big growth numbers in SD-WAN, and there are numerous SD-WAN startups competing for enterprise business.

Here’s a roundup of the most important deals in venture capital from the past week.

A new approach, called firewall bursting, leverages cloud scalability to offer an easier, more cost-effective alternative to branch office security.

Leading Master Agent to Offer Cato Cloud Converged SD-WAN and Security Service

Master Agents to Offer Cato Cloud Converged SD-WAN and Security Service

Design community recognizes Cato Management Application for incredible user experience, simplifying network and security management

SD-WAN is an important tool for businesses, which are continuously adopting SaaS-based applications.

If you’re looking to use a third-party data management/security firm, check out this helpful list of tips and keep your data safe in the process.

Singapore is not alone in proposing a far-reaching Bill to beef up cyber security

Israel has in recent years become a cybersecurity powerhouse, as its large ecosystem of cyber startups experienced significant growth despite an international financial slowdown that hit the rest of the industry.

Strategic Partnership Brings Global Converged SD-WAN and Security Solutions to the Channel

The mobile cloud era is changing line-of-business prospect of IT

The cloud has made deploying servers easy and taken much of the complexity out of application delivery.

Nick Fan to Serve as Vice President of Sales for Americas, Nate Grinnell to Serve as Senior Director of Channel Sales

Today’s issue is about Cato Networks and their solutions. One of our reviewers, Sunny Wear, had a chance to test their product during the last few weeks and prepared this review.

The recent news around VMware’s acquisition of SD-WAN provider VeloCloud is puzzling from a lot of angles but particularly in what it says about SD-WAN services.

SD-WAN is the answer for enterprises and organizations seeking to consolidate network functions and services while at the same time simplify their WAN infrastructure and its management.

The internet of things is as though a many-headed snake

Cato Networks, provider of the world’s first secure, global SD-WAN, announced that Nick Fan and Nate Grinnell have joined its global sales leadership team.

Whether you’re opening a new distribution center or rolling out a new factory, secure and effective communications are essential.

SD-WAN’s future lies in security

A new Gartner report accurately identifies the major macro shift in the SD-WAN market.

ViewQwest launches a secured SD-WAN connectivity service in Singapore that does not require any WAN optimisers installed at each location.

SD-WAN is the perfect solution for connecting off-site buildings to a campus or campuses together.

Despite SD-WAN adoption, companies continue to invest in MPLS services. They invest not out of love for MPLS, but because Internet-based SD-WANs do not provide the necessary quality for running all critical applications.

Perhaps the hottest area in networking is software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs).

How will SD-WAN connect to the cloud?

Infovista announced the integration of its Ipanema Application-Aware SD-WAN with Cato Cloud.

The 2017 SD-WAN Excellence Award winners will be featured in the Q4 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. SD-WAN education, along with a chance to meet with many of these winners, will take center stage at SD-WAN Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, February 14-16, 2018.

InfoVista and Cato Networks, jointly announce at the SD-WAN Summit in Paris, the availability of an integrated SD-WAN gateway solution for enterprises.

SD-WAN has shifted from peripheral technology to the mainstream.

Cato Cloud is a custom-built, SLA-backed backbone that provides global organizations a one-stop solution for interconnectivity, security and policy enforcement.

The report provides a detailed overview of the industry including both qualitative and quantitative information.

The major driver for the growth of this market is growing cyber-attacks on the cloud.

Israel has taken plenty of companies public on the NASDAQ — including Imperva, CyberArk, and Mobileye

Whether an enterprise deploys software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) technology at the edge, in the cloud, or a hybrid of the two, it’s clear that physical SD-WAN appliances won’t be replaced anytime soon.

One of the most devastating aspects of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack was its self-propagating capability exploiting a vulnerability in the file access protocol, SMB v1.

There’s a penchant by many to measure the quality of IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) solutions by the number of threat signatures supported by the vendor.

Achilles had his heel and Superman has his kryptonite. For SD-WANs, the internet has been their weakness.

Cato Networks is rethinking networking and security from the ground up and into the Cloud.

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) vendor Cato Networks is bringing in additional security to its cloud with a virtual Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

The Israel-based company on Monday rolled out Cato IPS-as-a-service, saying its attachment to SD-WAN makes it “context-aware.”

Network traffic management startup Cato Networks Inc. is beefing up its platform security with the launch a new Intrusion Prevention System designed to spot advanced threats as soon as they appear.

The SD-WAN market is exploding with many vendors addressing different aspects of the WAN transformation journey.

The software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market is predicted to grow 33% over the next five years, so companies should really get on board on this.

Web veterans remember when the wave of service launches, at the turn of the century, has created a network management nightmare, where some medium-sized data centers grown up to hundreds of physical machines.

DALLAS — SD-WAN Strategies for Success — In order to meet enterprise customer needs for SD-WAN, operators not only need the right technical solution, but must also identify the right business cases, operational tools and partnerships for SD-WAN services

SD-WAN is a new and cost-effective way of connecting offices and staff across geographic locations. Enterprises that are burdened with the transition from traditional infrastructure to the cloud might want to consider SD-WAN.

Cato’s converged SD-WAN and network security stack in the cloud reduces appliance sprawl, cuts global WAN costs

Macnica Networks Corp. is pleased to announce a distribution agreement with Cato Networks LTD.

“The motivation for deploying SD-WAN may have started with cost reduction and improved performance, but that’s changing.”

A global study of IT professionals shows the SD-WAN market is poised for major growth, but it’s not about to wipe out MPLS anytime soon.

Cato Networks, provider of network and security-as-a-service solutions, today announced that its co-founder and CTO Gur Shatz will be speaking at Infosecurity Europe this June.

When deploying an SD-WAN solution, an organization must take a close look at how security will be handled.

If you’re involved with your company’s wide area network (WAN), you’ve probably heard about SD-WANs. They’re the “boy wonder” of networking, ostensibly allowing companies to replace expensive MPLS lines with low-cost Internet access.

A Series of Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Shlomo Kramer, Cofounder and CEO, Cato Networks

Over the past two decades, carriers have built massive global networking platforms that are faithfully serving many enterprises.

Vive la wide area network revolution! In the new WAN, emerging cloud, software-defined networking and virtualization technologies save time and money while improving performance.

As is tradition, along with the annual Midas List, TrueBridge publishes the Brink List

Just six female investors have claimed spots on this year’s Midas List, up from five women a year ago.

The very software technology that’s threatening the incumbents is also providing a solution that may ensure their survival.

By moving towards a simpler infrastructure with fewer point solutions, we reduce the costs and complexity plaguing our current IT environments.

Carmella Kettner wanted a tool to help engage and teach her five-member sales development team, including three who work thousands of miles away from her company’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Carmella Kettner, director of global sales development at Cato Networks in Tel Aviv, chose GamEffective for engaging and teaching her sales team

Innovation Sandbox allows RSA conference attendees a peek at incubating technology that may impact the careers of many future security professionals.

In the wake of a recently documented ‘collision’ attack, Google researchers should consider delaying the release of the code behind the crack until companies can roll out adequate patches. Here’s why

Cato Networks as one of the 25 Coolest Network Security Vendors in 2017

WAN segmentation is valuable in protecting your network from security vulnerabilities. SD-WAN makes it easy.

With technology supporting expansion into overseas markets in today’s digital age, it is no surprise that businesses of all sizes are increasingly focused on improving control over their networks

The recent reports warning users about a phishing attack that’s been targeting Gmail users with a high degree of effectiveness have caught the attention of security professionals

The SD-WAN concept needs further refinement before becoming a fully viable replacement for MPLS

Networking companies are increasingly turning visionaries, anticipating customer’s needs and doling out large scale as well as niche solutions to meet them.

Cato Networks bringing fresh ideas to the market with software-defined WAN solutions and new Wave 2 access points.

Cato Networks is looking to redefine how companies do network security

RSAC 2017: Innovation Sandbox competition pits this year’s top 10 cybersecurity startups against each other in bid to win top honors as most innovative.

Cato Cloud Drives WAN Transformation by Converging Networking and Security into the Cloud

There are all sorts of ways to curb ransomware, so why has it spread so successfully?

Historically, service providers either managed or hosted various parts of a customer infrastructure in their facilities.

Hot topics at this year’s RSA Conference in February will include cloud security, Internet of Things security and encryption…

Cato Cloud Recognized for its Software-Defined and Cloud-based Secure Enterprise Network

The latest browser statistics published in W3Schools show that Google Chrome’s popularity continues its upward flow relative to other browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE); it has now surpassed 70 percent of all usage over the past six months.

Anyone with hands-on experience setting up long-haul VPNs over the Internet knows it’s not a pleasant exercise.

A new state law went into effect in California on January 1, 2017 that provides a maximum penalty of four years in state prison for deploying ransomware

Cato Networks is looking to disrupt the network security market

Modern network needs are evolving. Globalization requires businesses to connect with people and locations over intercontinental distances.

Last month a new vulnerability was discovered that used Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files to spread ransomware.

Transforming modern business = IT headaches

The recent US elections served up plenty of drama and even more suspense as the campaign entered its final stretch. Pollsters and forecasters crunched data continuously to accurately predict the paths to victory or defeat for both parties.

The blue firewall – a group of states that had consistently voted for the Democratic party in past elections – created a false sense of security.

Hundreds of security start-ups are bursting into the channel at a rapid pace. Samantha Wright weighs up the pros and cons of working with cutting-edge companies

“With Cato, a company can connect each branch office, data center, and HQ, along with its mobile users, directly to the Cato Cloud…

Since we spend most of our time and verbiage dealing with the challenges and problems associated with Cyber Security, we decided to supply our readers with some solutions too.

Appliances are a staple in our lives. We all depend on things like washing machines, dryers, stoves and refrigerators as part of our everyday routines. We love our appliances, and we feel comfortable with them. This comfort level may contribute to why so many businesses continue to rely on appliances for network security.

Enterprises are foregoing network upgrades because of the cost and complexity of those upgrades, putting security at risk, a Cato Networks study finds

Some 50% of organizations have been hit with a ransomware infection in the last year, and of those, 85% have suffered from three or more attacks, according to a user survey conducted by security vendor SentinelOne.

Cisco announced this week its FY17 Q1 earnings results, and security is again the company’s fastest-growing market segment, up 11 percent.

According to Gartner, nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. Why? Hybrid clouds offer a number of benefits – they’re on-demand, offer flexible development and test environments, and provide greater agility in scaling capacity without the heavy CapEx.

If your customers’ IT teams had to assign a Facebook relationship status to IT security, they’d say, “It’s complicated.” Yet complexity has been greatly reduced in other areas thanks to adoption of software as a service, and cloud overall.

Complexity will hold two out of every five organizations back from making any upgrades to their networks in 2017, and security products are contributing to the problem, according to new research from Cato Networks.

Complexity issues will prevent 40 percent of organizations from updating their networks in 2017, and a big part of the problem is security products, a new survey has found.

Cato Networks announced the results of its global networking and security survey, Top Networking and Security Challenges In the Enterprise; Planned Network Investments in 2017.

“Historically, and to this day, the Wide Area Network (WAN) has been all about physical locations. Branches, remote offices, retail stores, hospitals, and manufacturing sites all needed to be connected to a central location – the data-center.

CEO Shlomo Kramer: Cato Networks hunts for partners as it launches UK office

From an information technology perspective, small and midsized businesses with multiple locations get it in the neck. They often need to keep an arsenal of technology in place for protection and compliance reasons…

CEO Shlomo Kramer: We aim to strengthen security posture with an agile network security platform.

The following is a guest post by Gur Shatz, co-founder and CTO, Cato Networks.

Cato Networks, provider of the world’s first software-defined and cloud-based network with built-in enterprise security, today announced that it has raised $30M in a series B funding round.

Cato Networks says it is “rebuilding a new network perimeter in the cloud.”

An interesting perspective from our CTO Gur Shatz on prevention vs. detection: is prevention futile and can you afford to detect?

Our co-founder and CTO Gur Shatz wrote about the ways to secure hybrid datacenter

While middle-market ransomware attacks do not usually make the news, they do happen. Some middle-market organizations are even more enticing targets than large enterprises.

The internet is improving as a network medium, providing a viable option to traditional WAN architecture.

Cato Networks launched into the market in February with a Network Security-as-a-Service platform that it says will shake up the perception that security has to be complicated – and provide significant opportunity to its channel partners.

Software-defined infrastructure has firmly gained traction in public and private data centers and clouds, because of its game-changing nature

Preventing bad guys from compromising an organization has historically been executed based on a basic concept: establish a perimeter, and control who and what goes in and out. However, today’s threat landscape is evolving too quickly, and security is becoming more complex.

Here are 10 of the newest cloud security startups that are making waves in the market and that solution providers might want to watch.

Simulating attacks, defending the Internet of Things and keeping track of suspicious device reconfigurations are among technologies young companies are fleshing out

“If third time’s the charm and Kramer is after something even bigger than Check Point and more groundbreaking than Imperva, then Cato Networks may be it.”

Cato Networks is named as the “first company to secure the enterprise network by establishing the perimeter in the cloud itself, instead of securing discrete individual IT systems separately.”

“To avoid a full-on point solution implosion, enterprises should look for an answer within the same forces that gave rise to network complexity: Cloud, Internet and software,” said our CEO and co-founder Shlomo Kramer in his recent piece on SecurityWeek.

Israel is among the key tech markets globally. It ranks ninth among the top countries in the number of tech exits in 2015 and has sprouted dozens of prominent startups and attracted global investors.

CEO Shlomo Kramer says firms must adapt quickly to prevent cyber thieves exploiting ‘fluidity’ of modern working environment

At the recent Channel Partners Conference, Glenn Esposito, Cato’s VP of Sales, sat down with Telecom Reseller to give some insight on the launch of Cato Networks and the new PartnerCloud channel program

Drew Conry-Murray, a blogger with Packet Pushers, recently reviewed Cato Networks’ new SD-WAN appliance offering for unified security

Cato Cloud network security as a service solution provides a differentiated offering and new revenue opportunities for the company’s channel partners

How does the Cato Networks PartnerCloud program benefit MSPs?

Groundbreaking Cato Cloud provides a differentiated offering and new revenue opportunities for Cato’s channel partners

The Fusion of Network, Security and the Cloud

Shlomo Kramer tells the true tale of a ransomware attack

“We want MPLS to die,” said our co-founder and CTO Gur Shatz in a recent interview with PacketPushers

Cato Networks has been named one of the 25 coolest network security vendors on CRN’s 2016 Security 100 list

“The key is how do you bring simplicity back,” said our co-founder and CEO, Shlomo Kramer, in a recent interview with CNBC’s Ari Levy

The Bloomberg Advantage with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson

Cato Networks Unveils NSaaS Platform, Assigns New Americas Channel Chief

Businesses relying on security appliances will be likely customers because the service will enable them to unplug expensive MPLS and pull out UTM devices, firewalls and even WAN accelerators

NetworkWorld’s roundup of intriguing new products

For growing companies that need the flexibility, and for whom real security seemed out of the realm of possibility, this should be a very exciting option

[eWeek] By Sean Michael Kerner

Business today is very fluid; it’s not being done from a single location but from everywhere

Cato Networks will offer a new cloud security concept that’s been dubbed Network Security as a Service (NSaaS)

Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, is hoping to strike big with his latest company

The IT security ecosystem is thriving, with mature and established vendors mixing it up with a dynamic group of innovative startups, many based in the cloud.

Cato Cloud is a network security as a service offering that aims to make WAN security simple and cost-effective

Network Security as a Service will change the way security is delivered, managed, and evolved

CTO Gur Shatz talks about the need for enterprises to be careful in planning security strategies

The dissolving network perimeter also has created severe challenges in terms of capacity, manageability, adaptability and coverage of IT security appliances

In this RCR Wireless piece, CEO & co-founder, Shlomo Kramer, gives his cloud and security predictions for 2016

Cato Networks CEO Shlomo Kramer shares his views with Channel Partners Online in today’s column by Lorna Garey

Cato Networks was selected by CRN as one of the top 10 coolest security startups citing our vision, founding team and strong financial backing.

Cato Networks CEO, Shlomo Kramer, on the road to evolving startups into successfull businessess.

Excited to annoucne our latest funding round and our new partners, USVP and Aspect Ventures.

Our security solutions need to be in the line of sight between users and data. It can become a big headache, if the current fragmentation of the network, users, locations and data will continue unabated.

Simple security is essential. Complexity is the real weak link in our security posture because what we cant manage, we cant secure.

Enterprises backhaul traffic to a secure exit point to the Internet, leading to slow performance for remote locations. There has got to be a better way to remote office security.

Can midmarket organizations access MPLS-quality WAN without paying the full cost of MPLS?

Entrprise WAN should have more options than juggling unmanaged internet and MPLS connections.