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2025 Cato CTRL Threat Report: Top 4 AI Predictions for the Year Ahead

Today, Cato Networks published the 2025 Cato CTRL Threat Report. It is the inaugural annual threat report from Cato CTRL, the Cato Networks threat intelligence team. The key theme for this year’s report is artificial intelligence (AI), which reflects the current cybersecurity landscape where AI usage is skyrocketing among vendors—and threat actors. Within the report, we examine the security risks associated with LLMs and the increased adoption of AI applications within organizations in 2024.

The CISO's Balancing Act: Delegation Without Losing Control

In today’s fast-paced cybersecurity landscape, CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) face an undeniable reality: they simply cannot oversee every detail of their security operations. With expanding attack surfaces, regulatory pressures, and the need for 24/7 vigilance, micromanagement is neither sustainable nor effective. Instead, modern CISOs must master the art of delegation while maintaining control—an intricate balancing act akin to a Michelin-starred chef running a high-end kitchen.

Meeting Compliance Requirements with the Cato LAN NGFW

Simplify Compliance & Security with Cato’s Application-Aware LAN Firewall! In a distributed, cloud-first world, ensuring networking and security compliance is more challenging than ever. VLANs lack the granularity needed to enforce strict regulatory controls, and traditional firewall appliances add cost, complexity, and management overhead. What if you could extend your FWaaS to enforce microsegmentation inside the LAN?

Forward Networks Wins 2025 Gold Globee for Hybrid Cloud Security Solutions

Managing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) is one of the most daunting challenges for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) today. In 2024 alone, over 40,000 CVEs were issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), forcing security teams to sift through an overwhelming volume of threats. With hybrid, multi-cloud networks expanding in complexity, manually identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities have become an unsustainable burden.

Expanding Enterprise Security with the Cato LAN NGFW

With enterprise-wide cloud adoption and the onset of hybrid work, the mission has become clear: to securely connect users to applications — no matter where they are. While solutions like Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) can protect WAN and internet-bound traffic, anything happening on the internal LAN is in a blind spot.

Microsegmentation That Stops Lateral LAN Threat Movement with the Cato LAN NGFW

Stop Lateral Threat Movement with Cato’s LAN Next-Gen Firewall! Traditional VLAN-based segmentation is no longer enough to stop lateral movement within your corporate network. Attackers exploit east-west traffic, moving undetected between users, devices, and workloads. How do you enforce microsegmentation without increasing operational complexity? Cato Networks introduces L7 LAN NGFW, a native feature of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform that brings application-aware security to your local LAN. It prevents unauthorized access and restricts communication across VLANs without manual configurations or complex ACLs.