Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the line between the defenders and attackers often blurs, with skills transferable across both arenas. It’s a narrative not unfamiliar to many in the cybersecurity community: the journey from black hat to white hat, from outlaw to protector. In the 15th episode of Cato Networks’ Cyber Security Master Class, hosted by Etay Maor, Senior Director of Security Strategy, we had the privilege of witnessing such a transformative story unfold.

The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically large language models (LLMs) has recently taken the world by storm. The duality of the power and risks that this technology holds is especially pertinent to cybersecurity. On one hand the capabilities of LLMs for summarization, synthesis, and creation (or co-creation) of language and content is mind-blowing.

My new favorite company took center stage in iconic New York Times Square today with a multi-story high 3D visualization of our revolutionary secure access service edge (SASE) platform. It’s positively mesmerizing, take a look: The move signals a seismic shift happening across enterprises, the need to have an IT infrastructure that can easily adapt to anything at any time, and the transformative power of Cato’s networking and security platform.

In my previous blog post, I touched upon some challenges with how NGFW container firewalls are built and how it takes a team of firewall specialists to deploy, configure and maintain the firewall platform. In this blog I will illustrate the challenges in detail and demonstrate the simplicity of the Calico container firewall platform.

Firewalls act as the first line of defense against external threats and form the core of any network security infrastructure. Cisco firewalls are known for their security features and are available in different types such as stateful inspection, next-gen firewalls, etc. These firewalls do an excellent job at keeping your network safe from threats when paired with a robust firewall monitoring solution.

In a recently released Cybersecurity Advisory, the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) highlighted the most common cybersecurity misconfigurations in large organizations identified through blue team and red team assessments. The advisory stated that these misconfigurations illustrate systemic weakness in many large organizations, including those with mature cyber postures.