On September 8, Cato Networks announced it has joined the World Economic Forum’s Innovator Communities, the Forum’s bench of high-growth companies invited into the rooms where policy gets shaped. Cato enters through the Forum’s Unicorn community of private companies valued at one billion dollars or more, and will work through the Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity…
Every request leaving your network is a piece of mail, and how much of it your firewall can read has changed three times. For most of the web’s history, requests went out as postcards. The destination was written on the front and so was the message, and anything sitting on the route could read both….
Anson Kochi joined Matrix Networks in 2006 as a part-time hire on an overnight guest wireless help desk. He barely knew what a switch did. Today he is our Director of Engineering, running the engineering and support teams behind Matrix’s managed network clients. Two things made that possible, and neither one was a certification. We…
Your employees are already using AI. The question is whether you can see it. Across the mid-market, staff have quietly folded ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and a dozen other tools into their daily work. Most did it without asking, because the tools are free, useful, and one browser tab away. For a lean IT team, that…
The 2026 renewal market quietly turned your insurance application into a security audit. The companies that read the memo will pay less and sleep better. The ones treating it as paperwork are writing checks they will never get back. The polite fiction is over Cyber insurance requirements 2026 didn’t arrive with much warning. There was…
The security math says the right time to move to SASE has nothing to do with your firewall’s depreciation schedule. If your team has a plan to move to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), it’s probably timed to when your current on-premises firewalls reach the end of their depreciation schedule. Replace the gear when the…
You added an AI gateway so your applications could reach OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, and a few other model providers through one consistent door. It made integration simpler. It also quietly became a server on your network that holds the keys to every model account you own, and in a lot of deployments, it is…
The access points and switches you bought four or five years ago are aging out, and the refresh quote is sitting in your inbox. Before you sign, the question is not whether you pay monthly. Everyone pays monthly now. The question is what that monthly dollar actually buys you. Many IT leaders are currently staring…
Why actively exploited edge-device vulnerabilities are changing the firewall conversation For years, the firewall at the edge of your network was the thing that kept attackers out. In 2024, it quietly became one of the ways they got in. That does not mean firewalls are bad. It does not mean one vendor failed. And it…
Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0300 on May 6, 2026. It is an unauthenticated buffer overflow in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal that lets a remote attacker execute code as root. CVSS 9.3. Early exploitation has been observed in the wild and is expected to accelerate. First fixes are landing May 13. A second wave follows…