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Retail IT Reinvented with Cato SASE Cloud Platform

Jun 30, 2025 By Cato Networks In Cato Networks
Retail IT is evolving fast – and legacy infrastructure can’t keep up. In this 3-minute video, see how Cato SASE Cloud Platform helps retailers simplify operations, accelerate store rollouts, and stay secure with a converged, cloud-native platform. Discover how to simplify store rollouts, maintain reliable performance, and protect customer data with PCI compliance from day one. Whether you’re scaling new stores or modernizing your entire footprint, Cato delivers the agility, security, and performance retail demands – in one platform, built for retail.
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What Keeps CIOs Up at Night: Five Key Concerns and How SASE Brings Peace of Mind

Jun 29, 2025 By Eyal Webber Zvik In Cato Networks
Over the past nine years in the SASE business, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with hundreds of IT leaders—CIOs, CISOs, and IT executives. Through these conversations, I’ve found that five main concerns consistently keep them up at night. This blog aims to share those insights and highlight how I’ve seen Cato Networks’ SASE platform help address these challenges, allowing IT leaders to sleep a little easier.
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Legacy Partnerships Are Costing You Customers: Power Up with Cato's Private PoP

Jun 26, 2025 By Jason Pender In Cato Networks
Having spent over two decades navigating the evolving landscape of service provider partnerships, I’ve witnessed firsthand how challenging it can be for providers to maintain profitability and differentiation. Increasingly, relying on legacy vendors feels akin to selling customers a shiny new car equipped with an outdated engine—appealing at first glance but disappointing once in use.
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Is Chasing the So-Called 'Best-Of-Breed' Cybersecurity Solutions Smart?

Jun 25, 2025 By Ryan Whipp In Cato Networks
Let’s be honest: Chasing after the so-called ‘best-of-breed’ cybersecurity solutions might seem smart, but it often sets you up for operational headaches. It’s tempting—especially given the persuasive pitches from top-tier vendors—to select the best individual products for each security function.
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Rewind in 5: Cato's 2025 So Far

Jun 24, 2025 By Cato Networks In Cato Networks
We're halfway through the year, and Cato’s momentum hasn’t slowed. From major platform upgrades to cutting-edge security enhancements, 2025 has already delivered a wave of innovation. This short video recap distills the biggest highlights into under five minutes — a quick way to catch up on everything new and noteworthy. Watch the recap and let us know which release made the biggest impact for you.
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Spider-Man, Security Questions, and Identity Fraud: A Cybersecurity Story

Jun 22, 2025 By Sharon Uziel (Fisher) In Cato Networks
Ever seen that classic Spider-Man meme where three Spideys are pointing at each other, accusing the others of being impostors? It’s the perfect representation of identity confusion—after all, depending on whom you ask, the “real” Spider-Man could be Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, or Tom Holland. It all comes down to context and baseline—what you grew up with, what you expect, and what “normal” looks like to you.
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Cato CTRL Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian's Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New "Living off AI" Risk

Jun 19, 2025 By Guy Waizel In Cato Networks
Most organizations assume a clear boundary between external users, who submit support tickets or service requests, and internal users, who handle them using privileged access. However, when an internal user triggers an AI action from a model context protocol (MCP) tool, such as summarizing a ticket, that boundary can break.
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Cato + AWS: The power of partnership for a secure, connected cloud

Jun 18, 2025 By Mauricio Astacio In Cato Networks
In enterprise IT, there’s a familiar story: moving applications to the cloud is easy—but securely connecting cloud workloads isn’t. Cloud migration is no longer a question of if, but how fast enterprises can make the shift. As of 2025, an estimated 67% of enterprise infrastructure runs in the cloud, highlighting the widespread adoption of cloud hosting and infrastructure services worldwide.
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Cato CTRL Threat Research: WormGPT Variants Powered by Grok and Mixtral

Jun 17, 2025 By Vitaly Simonovich In Cato Networks
When large language models (LLMs) became popular following OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, threat actors understood the potential of such systems and how they can be used in their malicious operations. However, the main challenge that threat actors encountered a couple of years ago is that the LLMs were censored and didn’t allow the creation of malicious content. Enter WormGPT.
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Cato Networks Receives "Deployed on AWS" Badge on AWS Marketplace, Further Accelerating SASE Adoption for AWS Customers

Jun 16, 2025 By Mauricio Astacio In Cato Networks
Today, we’ve announced during AWS re:Inforce 2025 that Cato Networks has received the “Deployed on AWS” badge, which identifies Amazon Web Services (AWS) partners whose products are powered by AWS infrastructure. As a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE, Cato sets the standard for converging networking and security in a single, cloud-native platform.
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When the Cloud Goes Dark: Why Owning Your Infrastructure Matters for Critical Services

Jun 16, 2025 By Aviram Katzenstein In Cato Networks
On June 12, 2025, a global outage at Google Cloud Platform (GCP) brought critical infrastructure to a halt. The ripple effects were immediate. Services from Palo Alto Networks and Cloudflare—both of which rely on GCP—experienced outages that lasted hours. Enterprises depending on these services were left blind and exposed. This wasn’t a first. It won’t be the last. But it was a wake-up call. When SASE, SSE, or SD-WAN platforms go down, the business is down. Productivity stalls.
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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Uncovering Nytheon AI - A New Platform of Uncensored LLMs

Jun 11, 2025 By Vitaly Simonovich In Cato Networks
With the introduction of WormGPT in 2023, threat actors have been using uncensored large language models (LLMs) for malicious activities. Following the shutdown of WormGPT in the same year, numerous alternatives have emerged—including BlackHatGPT, FraudGPT, and GhostGPT, among others—primarily accessible through Telegram channels.
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Meet Cato's MCP Server: A Smarter Way to Integrate AI Into Your IT & Security Processes

Jun 9, 2025 By Guy Waizel In Cato Networks
Sometimes preparing dinner can be a complicated task. You’re juggling a stir-fry, boiling pasta, prepping a salad, and all you want is to say “Chop the onions” and have it done. No switching between tasks, no looking up steps. Just state the intent, and it’s executed. We wanted that same level of simplicity when interacting with our environment, including sites, users, topology, and real-time data. That led us to build Cato’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server.
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The Journey to SASE: a CxO Perspective | SASEfy 2025

Jun 5, 2025 By Cato Networks In Cato Networks
True transformation happens when networking and security move at the speed of business. That’s what SASE makes possible. In his session at, Cato’s Chief Strategy Officer Yishay Yovel, shares how SASE aligns infrastructure and business transformation — creating a platform that’s simple, agile, and future-ready.
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Connecting China Without the Complexity - The Cato Approach

Jun 4, 2025 By Cato Networks In Cato Networks
What if connecting China didn’t mean rebuilding your architecture, navigating telco red tape, or managing endless compliance workarounds? For global enterprises, China isn’t optional—it’s essential. From sourcing and manufacturing to logistics and go-to-market, your business depends on fast, secure, and compliant access through and across China. But most legacy architectures treat China like an exception—introducing latency, risk, and inconsistency right where you can least afford it.
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