Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A network’s stability and reliability are defined by its ability to provide consistent services to clients, 24/7. But what happens when service availability is disrupted? Such interruptions can lead to network downtime and delayed responses for clients. Many modern networks face these challenges, making it the organization’s responsibility to build infrastructure that ensures continuous service availability.

Cato Networks has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) — marking the third consecutive year we’ve earned this distinction. And, once again, Cato is positioned closest to the center of the Radar, of all participants. In this year’s GigaOm Radar for SASE, Cato is positioned in the Maturity/Platform Play quadrant, reflecting the depth, completeness, and enterprise readiness of the Cato SASE Platform.

Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich (senior security researcher) has discovered a new vulnerability (CVE-2026-25611 with a “High” severity rating of 7.5 out of 10) in all MongoDB versions with compression enabled (version 3.4+, enabled by default since version 3.6), including MongoDB Atlas. The vulnerability can enable a threat actor to crash any MongoDB server. MongoDB Atlas clusters are not internet-reachable by default.

In 2020, the SolarWinds compromise showed how far attackers can go when they look legitimate. Instead of breaking in loudly, threat actors tampered with trusted software updates and gained access that appeared routine to many defenses. The U.S. government later assessed that roughly 18,000 customers installed affected Orion updates, and a smaller subset experienced follow-on intrusion activity, often discovered only after time had passed.

Encrypted data has a shelf life, and for many organizations it must remain secret for years. The post-quantum risk is not a dramatic collapse of encryption, but a quieter threat: attackers harvesting encrypted traffic today so they can decrypt it in the future. That is why post-quantum readiness is increasingly a board and CEO-level responsibility, with the CISO leading execution, because quantum risk threatens long-term business stability, compliance expectations, and trust.

Working at the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) as a data scientist makes me a bit of an outlier (pun intended) among network engineers and hard-core threat hunters.