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SECURITY SERVICE EDGE (SSE) LIMITATIONS & DISADVANTAGES. PROTECTING ALL TRAFFIC,
USERS, APPS, AND SERVICES WITH 360-DEGREE SSE

Posted in Security Service Edge (SSE)

This article explores the Security Service Edge (SSE) portion of Secure Access
Service Edge (SASE) and the need for holistic cybersecurity protections.

We lightly touch upon the drivers for tighter enterprise security and then dive
into what SSE is, comparing its architecture and migration path to SASE to a
360-degree SSE approach which offers complete visibility, optimization and
control with a seamless path to SASE convergence.



How Security Service Edge (SSE) fits into SASE’s Security Pillars

This article covers:

 * The Need for Holistic Security
 * SSE vs. 360-degree SSE: What is the Architecture Difference?
 * Security Collaboration
 * SSE or 360-degree SSE: Choose Your Defense Carefully
 * 360-degree SSE: Seamless Path to Single-vendor SASE
 * Summary

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   Services
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   strategy
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   Jitter/Latency and Packet Loss by a Factor of 13!
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   Services with Catonetworks SASE Platform


THE NEED FOR HOLISTIC SECURITY

Legacy security architectures presupposed security as local and siloed with
appliances everywhere. Unfortunately, these architectures produced protection,
performance, and visibility gaps, so the overall security requirements for
enterprises have proven this model insufficient.

This outdated approach influenced the need for security simplification and
assumes enterprises replace these architectures with a strategy that will:

 * Simplify security management
 * Minimize security blind spots
 * Inspect traffic flows in all directions
 * Deliver Zero Trust access everywhere
 * Give visibility and control into all traffic


SSE VS. 360-DEGREE SSE: WHAT IS THE ARCHITECTURE DIFFERENCE?

Security Service Edge (SSE) is new category introduced by Gartner, two years
after SASE, and represents an essential step toward simplifying complex security
architectures by consolidating them into cloud-delivered services. This allows
enterprises to quickly adapt to new business and technical challenges like cloud
migration, the growing hybrid workforce, etc.

The figure below represents the basic SSE architecture and its protection
scheme:



Basic SSE Architecture and its protection scheme

SSE consolidates SWG, CASB, DLP, and ZTNA and represents a small portion of the
security pillars of SASE. However, diving deeper into what SSE delivers versus
what businesses require, we realize that basic SSE lacks full security
protection and has coverage shortcomings, as pictured below:

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THE NEED FOR A CONVERGED SASE PLATFORM. CONVERGING NETWORK & SECURITY SERVICES
WITH CATONETWORKS SASE PLATFORM

Posted in SASE & SD-WAN Networks

The digital transformation is pushing applications to the cloud, the 2020-2022
pandemic shifted employees to work from home, and the number of resulting new
use cases is sending IT leaders scrambling for answers. The number of solutions
IT departments have had to adopt to ensure their network's performance and
security has continuously grown for over a decade.

The recent trends have greatly accelerated this process. When looking into ways
to help mitigate this complexity, one of the leading conclusions is that
enterprises should find ways to consolidate their separate, stand-alone,
products into a unified solution which can be more easily managed and
maintained, and which can provide them with a consistent and a holistic view of
all traffic in their network.

Gartner has gone a step further and designed a framework that facilitates this,
which they named the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). SASE is, in essence, an
architecture that converges networking and security capabilities into a single
solution and goes a long way in reducing network complexity.



Before we talk about the networking and security services that SASE converges,
let's first look at the entities and traffic flows they need to serve.

The journey starts at any of the enterprise's endpoints which need to access any
of the enterprise's assets or external resources. The origin endpoints are
typically users who can connect from any of the enterprise's physical locations
or remotely. Physical locations are typically enterprise headquarters or branch
offices, which connect between themselves or to other enterprise locations such
as physical or cloud-based datacenters. Enterprises typically use an MPLS and/or
SD-WAN product to connect their physical locations:



Traditional MPLS VPN Network

Mobile & Remote users will use a remote access solution to connect to their
networks. Cloud-based services such as AWS, Azure will require virtual
connectors, or other secure tunnel solutions to connect to the enterprise
network and remote offices use a private managed MPLS service to connect to the
headquaters.

As we can see, a modern digital enterprise needs to connect various types of
endpoints that are spread across multiple locations.

So how is it possible to converge network and security services for such a
dispersed network topology?

The only real option, as Gartner stated, is to use a cloud service to which all
network endpoints can connect and which is capable of delivering all required
services. This is precisely what Cato's SASE Cloud platform offers:



SASE Architecture Example

Each endpoint connects to the nearest Cato Point-of-Presense (PoP). All traffic
sent from the endpoint is processed by the PoP's full software stack that
provides all networking and security services.

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The convergence takes place deep inside the PoP, within the Single Pass Cloud
Engine (SPACE). SPACE ensures all services are applied with a single, unified,
context which provides them with a holistic view, enabling a better-informed
decision process. While its implementation takes place "under the hood",
convergence, much like justice, must be seen to be done. A solution that doesn't
look converged, is probably not.

Another major benefit of the Cato converged SASE network is the reduction of
jitter and packet loss, already covered in a previous article using a real
scenario.

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   Services
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   strategy
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   Jitter/Latency and Packet Loss by a Factor of 13!
 * Key Features of a True Cloud-Native SASE Service. Setting the Right
   Expectations
 * Security Service Edge (SSE) Limitations. Protecting all Traffic, Users, Apps,
   and Services with 360-degree SSE


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KEY FEATURES OF A TRUE CLOUD-NATIVE SASE SERVICE. SETTING THE RIGHT EXPECTATIONS

Posted in SASE & SD-WAN Networks

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an architecture widely regarded as the
future of enterprise networking and security. In previous articles we talked
about the benefits of a converged, cloud-delivered, SASE service which can
deliver necessary networking and security services to all enterprise edges. But
what does "cloud delivered" mean exactly? And are all cloud services the same?

We’ll be covering the above and more in this article:

 * Defining Cloud-Native Services
 * Cloud-Native – Single Pass Architecture
 * Scalable Cloud-Native Services
 * Cloud-Native Service Resiliency
 * Cloud-Native Service Managed Service
 * Summary

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   Services
 * SASE and VPNs: Reconsidering your Mobile Remote Access and Site-to-Site VPN
   strategy
 * Converged SASE Backbone – How Leading SASE Provider, Cato Networks, Reduced
   Jitter/Latency and Packet Loss by a Factor of 13!


DEFINING CLOUD-NATIVE SERVICES

While we all use cloud services daily for both work and personal benefit, we
typically don't give much thought to what actually goes on in the elusive place
we fondly call "the cloud". For most people, "the cloud" means they are just
using someone else’s computer. For most cloud services, this definition is a
good enough, as we don't need to know, nor care, about what they do behind the
scenes.

For cloud services delivering enterprise networking and security services,
however, this matters a lot. The difference between a true cloud-native
architecture and software simply deployed in a cloud environment, can have
detrimental impact on the availability, stability, performance, and security of
your enterprise. 

Let's take a look at what cloud-native means, and the importance it plays in our
network.

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VMWARE VSPHERE, VCENTER, ESXI FREE VS ESXI PAID, WORKSTATION
PLAYER & PRO

Posted in Virtualization & VM Backup

In this article we will cover the differences between VMware ESXi, vSphere and
vCenter while also explain the features supported by each vSphere edition:
vSphere Standard, Enterprise plus and Plantium edition. We will touch on the
differences and limitations between VMware Workstation Player and VMware
Workstation Pro, and also compare them with EXSi Free and EXSi Paid editions.

Finally we will demystify the role of vCenter and the additional features it
provides to a VMware infrastructure.

So, without any further delay, let’s take a look at the topics covered:

 * Difference between VMware vSphere and vCenter
 * What is VMware ESXi?
 * Difference Between VMware ESXi Free and ESXi Paid Version
 * When Do You Need vCenter?
 * Difference Between VMware Workstation Player and VMware Workstation Pro
 * Summary

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VMWARE VSPHERE & VCENTER

It’s sometimes difficult to keep up to date with the latest names of software.
Even the largest technology vendors change their product names from time to
time. Unfortunately, getting the product name wrong can result in various costly
consequences including purchasing the wrong product or an older version with
differentiating feature sets.

Contrary to popular belief, vSphere and vCenter are actually different products:

 * vSphere is VMware’s name for a suite of Infrastructure products. You can
   think of it as a platform name which includes lots of different components.
 * vCenter is the name of one of the components under the vSphere suite. vCenter
   runs on a Windows Server VM and provides the management and control plane of
   the entire VMware environment. This is also shown in the diagram below:



Looking at the vSphere suite, the components and features that vSphere includes
depend on your licenses. vCenter Server is available on all vSphere editions.

Here is an overview of some features for the main vSphere editions:

You will notice that this vSphere feature table contains many different
technologies which are found in different VMware software components.

vCenter is a management tool that helps manage multiple ESXi / vSphere
Hypervisors within the datacentre. Earlier versions of vCenter (also known as
vCenter Server) ran exclusively on Windows Server (shown in the previous
diagram) whereas now VMware now offers the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) which
runs on either SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 64-bit (vCSA v6.0) or VMware’s
proprietary Photon OS (vCSA v6.5 and above).

You log in to vCenter Server via an HTML5 browser (formally a Flash client)
which looks like this:

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