If You Give a Stack a Firewall
Cato Networks
12 min read · Apr 15, 2026
Decades of reasonable IT decisions created a stack no one meant to build. This eBook walks through how that loop formed-and how a converged, cloud-native platform finally closes it. No one set out to build an IT environment held together by point solutions and patchwork fixes. It just happened-one firewall, one VPN, one “temporary” tool at a time. The result is a stack that works hard but never quite works together. This eBook traces the cause-and-effect chain that brought us here and shows how a converged platform breaks the loop for good.
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