Cato Networks to Present Two Cutting-Edge Security Talks at BSides Edmonton 2025
Cato CTRL to showcase innovative approaches to IoT fingerprinting and AI-driven policy management, empowering enterprises to proactively defend against hidden threats
TEL AVIV, Israel, September 15, 2025 – Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced that Cato CTRL will speak at BSides Edmonton 2025.
The sessions featuring Cato CTRL include:
- Monday, September 22 at 3:20 PM MT
- Session: “Contextual Agentic Garbage Collector – Sweeping Up Misconfiguration Crumbs Before Attackers Do”
- Speaker: Naor Kalbo, principal researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
- Tuesday, September 23 at 1:30 PM MT
- Session: “From Passive to Statistical Fingerprinting – A Journey of Confidence”
- Speaker: Sergey Volkovich, data scientist at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
“Today’s misconfigurations aren’t just sitting in plain sight within familiar settings, they emerge from the context around those settings,” said Naor Kalbo, principal researcher at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL. “In my session, I will demonstrate how an AI-powered approach to policy management can act like a garbage collector for security, sweeping away overlooked policy debris before threat actors can weaponize it.”
“Classifying IoT devices with confidence is no longer optional—it’s essential,” said Sergey Volkovich, data scientist at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL. “In my talk, I will show how to move from passive methods to statistical fingerprinting, which gives enterprises a far more reliable and scalable way to understand what’s really living on their networks.”
To learn more about Cato’s threat intelligence team, visit the Cato CTRL page.
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- [Photo] Naor Kalbo
- [Photo] Sergey Volkovich
About Cato CTRL
Cato CTRL (Cyber Threats Research Lab) is the world’s first CTI group to fuse threat intelligence with granular network insight, made possible by Cato’s global SASE platform. By bringing together dozens of former military intelligence analysts, researchers, data scientists, academics and industry-recognized security professionals, Cato CTRL utilizes network data, security stack data, hundreds of security feeds, human intelligence operations, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and ML (Machine Learning) to shed light on the latest cyber threats and threat actors.
About Cato Networks
Cato Networks delivers enterprise security and networking in a single cloud platform. The SASE leader creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. With Cato, organizations replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack.
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