The WAN landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by demands of cloud, mobility, and globalization. MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), a legacy transport technology, once the gold standard, now struggles to meet modern business requirements.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, IT leaders are under constant pressure to deliver outcomes that align directly with business value. Gone are the days when technology decisions were made in isolation. Today, every IT investment must contribute to operational efficiency, cost savings, security, and scalability—all while empowering the business to innovate and grow.

In today’s competitive job market, employees are increasingly seeking a sense of purpose and belonging in their work environments. As McKinsey reports, purpose has become a pivotal factor in employee retention. IT leaders who fail to connect their teams’ day-to-day tasks to a broader mission risk losing top talent to organizations that do.

Recently, Google made headlines with the announcement of its new quantum chip, Willow, marking another step forward in the fascinating world of quantum computing. The technology promises to solve problems that are currently intractable for classical computers, fueling excitement—and a fair bit of concern—about its implications for cryptography, particularly the widely used RSA encryption.

Modern ransomware attacks have evolved beyond simple encryption to deploy sophisticated double extortion tactics. Threat actors now systematically exfiltrate sensitive data before encrypting systems, ensuring leverage even when victims have robust data backups. Some ransomware gangs have even abandoned encryption altogether, recognizing that the threat of data exposure often proves more compelling for ransom payment.

When an enterprise looks for a network security provider, whether implementing a SASE solution or not, one of its pillar requirements is complete visibility of the assets it holds, which provides the ability to manage its devices. Identifying devices in a network, commonly known as device fingerprinting, provides an enterprise with the ability to control their inventory, which could be a challenging task for companies spread across multiple sites, countries, hybrid datacenters or continents.

Today, Cato Networks introduced Cato IoT/OT Security, the industry’s first SASE-native IoT/OT security solution. Cato IoT/OT Security extends SASE-based protection into IoT/OT environments, improving visibility and security while reducing complexity. Cato IoT/OT Security is a native feature in the Cato SASE Cloud Platform. It allows enterprises to instantly activate the new solution with a click of a button. No additional hardware or software needs to be installed or configured.

Wikipedia defines a ripple effect as “an initial disturbance to a system propagating outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system.” This phenomenon is highly applicable to many IT transformations such as cloud migration and move to hybrid work, but even more so to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge).

In today’s fast-paced business environment, IT teams are under increasing pressure to keep networks running smoothly and securely. The burden of managing a growing number of endpoints, networks, and cloud services—combined with constant threats of cyberattacks—can lead to IT burnout. Burnout affects the well-being of IT professionals and increases the likelihood of human error, such as misconfigurations, missed patches, and slow response times to incidents.

On the morning of Oct 13th, SpaceX successfully performed a groundbreaking catch of its Starship booster. It was a monumental moment in space exploration, one that David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp, recently praised in his blog. As Heinemeier Hansson noted, pulling off such feats requires a rare combination of audacity, vision, and an ironclad refusal to accept failure.