Cato Networks to Present Two Sessions on AI-Powered Policy Management and Defense-in-Depth at BSides St. Pete 2025
Cato CTRL to reveal how to uncover hidden risks with policy misconfigurations and stop everyday breaches with multiple security layers
TEL AVIV, Israel, September 25, 2025 – Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced that Cato CTRL will speak at BSides St. Pete 2025 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The sessions featuring Cato CTRL include:
- Saturday, October 4 at 8:00 AM ET
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- Session: “Contextual Agentic Garbage Collector: Sweeping Up Misconfiguration Crumbs Before Attackers Do”
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- Speaker: Avidan Avraham, director of research at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
- Saturday, October 4 at 12:00 PM ET
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- Session: “From Zero-Day Sensations to Reality Check: Demoing a Real Attack Using Everyday Tactics”
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- Speaker: Avishay Zawoznik, director of research at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL
“Security policies aren’t just configurations. They’re dynamic ecosystems where hidden context can create risk,” said Avidan Avraham, director of research at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL. “In my session, I will reveal an AI-powered approach to policy management that continuously uncovers that hidden context and clears misconfigurations that traditional tools miss.”
“In cybersecurity, it’s often the ordinary—not the extraordinary—that does the most damage. In my talk, I will show how threat actors rely on common, well-documented techniques to breach networks, underscoring the need for defense-in-depth,” said Avishay Zawoznik, director of research at Cato Networks and member of Cato CTRL. “By layering controls and detections, especially at the network level, enterprises can disrupt even the most routine attack before it becomes a crisis.”
To learn more about Cato’s threat intelligence team, visit the Cato CTRL page.
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- [Photo] Avidan Avraham
- [Photo] Avishay Zawoznik
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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