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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?

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.

Protect Local Networks with Cato's Application-Aware LAN NGFW

Simplify LAN Security with Cato Networks’ LAN Next-Gen Firewall! Managing LAN security across multiple locations has always been a challenge—until now. Two common hurdles IT teams face: Hardware Hassles – Deploying, upgrading, and troubleshooting firewalls at each site is time-consuming and costly. Policy Complexity – Keeping rules clean and consistent across multiple locations can be a nightmare.

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.

Cato CTRL Threat Research: Ballista - New IoT Botnet Targeting Thousands of TP-Link Archer Routers

Over the years, major IoT botnets like Mirai and Mozi have proven how easily routers can be exploited and threat actors have taken note. Two key issues have played in their favor: the fact that users rarely deploy new firmware to their routers, coupled with the lack of regard for security by router vendors. As a result, router vulnerabilities may persist in the wild for much longer than initially expected, even after patches are published publicly.

ADKAR: 5 stages to manage the human side of SASE change

Change isn’t optional—IT leaders know this better than anyone. IT has always been the backbone of the business, keeping everything secure, connected, and efficient. But the demands on IT—and the business—have changed. Cloud adoption, hybrid work, competitive pressures, and rising costs have exposed the cracks in legacy architectures and pushed them past their limits.

Cato CTRL Threat Research: Stuck in the Past- How Hackers Exploit Years-Old CVEs for Cryptojacking

Cybercriminals often exploit outdated vulnerabilities – quite literally. While organizations focus on addressing the latest zero-day threats, attackers continue to profit by targeting weaknesses that should have been resolved long ago. Some of these Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVEs) date back nearly a decade, yet they remain heavily exploited. This trend proves that old flaws never truly disappear.

An Inside Look at Cato's New AI Assistant

In line with our philosophy of delivering an exceptional customer experience, Cato Networks has added a knowledge-base AI assistant as part of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform. The AI assistant provides accurate, relevant answers to questions about using Cato’s many capabilities with detailed, step-by-step instructions uniquely suited to the user’s situation and circumstance.