CISA and Partners Release Guidance for Modern Approaches to Network Access Security

Today, CISA, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, released guidance, Modern Approaches to Network Access Security, along with the following organizations: New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB; New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-NZ;...

A Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Guide for Leaders

Discover the benefits of SASE, a network architecture built on zero trust principles, in adopting modern security architectures to reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

CANs Reinvent LANs for an All-Local World

In an article I wrote over a year ago called “Securing the New Normal of Network Access,” I presented four access scenarios that modern organizations needed to enable users to stay securely connected and protected in the new normal of a work-from-anywhere world. Of course, “new” is a relative ter...

SASE & Zero Trust: The Dream Team

Zero Trust: We’ve been kicking that term around since 2003, by what exactly is it? In a nutshell, it’s not treating computers like humans, says Chase Cunningham, chief strategy officer at Ericom Software. Zero trust means “not putting trust relationships inside of computerized systems…and what we...

If You Don't Have A SASE Cloud Service, You Don't Have SASE At All

The Secure Access Service Edge or SASE has been a very hot buzzword in the past year. A term and category created by Gartner 2019, SASE states that the future of networking and security lies in the convergence of these categories into a single, cloud-based platform. The capabilities that SASE...

Cato SDP: Cloud-Scale and Global Remote Access Solution Review

The Scouts acknowledged the necessity to "Be Prepared" over 100 years ! ago; the industry should have, as well. Yet COVID-19 took businesses – more like the entire world – by surprise. Very few were prepared for the explosion of remote access, and the challenge of instantly shifting an entire...

Security at the Edge - What is Gartner's SASE & why does it matter?

Recently, Gartner published a report called "Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge" that dives into how to enable security and network access controls as-a-service from the cloud. But what is Gartner's SASE pronounced like "sassy"? The...