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Say Goodbye to Patching with the World’s First SASE-native LAN NGFW from Cato Networks

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First complete convergence of LAN and cloud firewalls taps SASE simplicity to close the 55-day patch gap

LONDON, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced the end of firewall patching and the security gaps left by disparate firewalls with the world’s first SASE-native LAN NGFW. With the Cato LAN NGFW, Cato converges all firewall engines for seamless management and deep visibility from the cloud into the LAN. The Cato LAN NGFW is a native capability of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, requiring no additional hardware, and is fully self-updating and self-maintaining, eliminating manual patching and emergency fixes.  

“Patching is a costly, time-consuming nightmare – a ticking time bomb if delayed. Legacy firewall appliance vendors experience over 20 high and critical vulnerabilities in a single year, which means that IT has no choice but to drop everything and act quickly before it’s too late,” says Ofir Agasi, vice president of product management at Cato Networks. “The Cato LAN NGFW flips the script, delivering always-up-to-date protection without the patching chaos of firewall appliances.”

The 55-day Patch Gap Opens the Door to Threat Actors

For years, IT teams have faced challenges with traditional local firewall appliances. Managing individual policy sets adds complexity, while the lack of shared data context between appliances creates security gaps and limits end-to-end visibility.

Firewall appliances, meant to protect enterprise assets, have themselves become security risks, subject to their own critical vulnerabilities. The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that organizations take an average of 55 days to remediate 50% of critical vulnerabilities. This prolonged window exposes enterprises to threats, increasing the risk of security breaches.

Faulty patches only exacerbate the risk posed by patching firewall appliances. According to Gartner®, “Many organizations have experienced outages attributed to patches not working as intended. These outages are often high profile, generating reputational damage as well as lost revenue. Faced with these risks, I&O organizations are justifiably conservative when it comes to high-velocity patching requests from security, especially for business-critical systems.”¹

Cato LAN NGFW Revolutionizes Firewall Management

The Cato LAN NGFW, the latest expansion of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, enables Layer 7, application-aware controls for local LAN segmentation while ensuring centralized policy enforcement. By converging all firewalls – Internet, site-to-site, and within the LAN – Cato simplifies policy management and delivers consistent enforcement using the security engine that achieved near-perfect protection on an independent security efficacy test from Frost & Sullivan.

The Cato LAN NGFW also enables enterprises to:

Meet Compliance Requirements for Localized Traffic Control: Enforce security policies locally, allowing organizations to comply with regulations that mandate LAN traffic isolation.Transition from Legacy LAN Firewalls: Eliminate costly, resource-intensive standalone LAN firewalls while gaining application-aware segmentation and centralized policy enforcement.Simplify Security for Distributed Environments: Provide consistent, application-aware security across multiple locations without needing additional on-premises firewalls, ensuring Zero Trust enforcement across all locations.Secure East-West Traffic with Microsegmentation to Reduce Risk: Minimize lateral movement of threats with granular, application-aware segmentation policies for RDP, SSH, and SMB traffic aligning with NIST 800-207 Zero Trust principles.

The Cato LAN NGFW is generally available worldwide at no additional cost to Cato customers.

Cato Networks will be at Tech Show London’s Cloud & AI Infrastructure 2025 on March 12-13 at ExCeL London. During the two-day event, Cato will be showcasing the Cato SASE Cloud Platform at stand CE060.

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[Image] Ofir Agasi[Product Page] Cato FWaaS[Blog] Expanding Enterprise Security with the Cato LAN NGFW[Report] Frost & Sullivan Report: Cato SASE Cloud Platform

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¹ Gartner, We’re Not Patching Our Way Out of Vulnerability Exposure, Craig Lawson, Dale Gardner, January 2025

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

About Cato Networks
Cato Networks delivers enterprise security and networking in a single cloud platform. The SASE leader creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. With Cato, organizations replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack.

Want to learn why thousands of organizations secure their future with Cato? Visit us at www.catonetworks.com.

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Mastech Digital to Announce Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results; Participate in Upcoming Investor Conference

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PITTSBURGH, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Mastech Digital, Inc. (NYSE American: MHH) (“Mastech Digital”), a leading provider of Digital Transformation IT Services, today announced the date for the release of its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, and its participation in an upcoming investor conference.

Second Quarter 2026 Earnings:

Mastech Digital will report its financial results for the second quarter 2026 before the market opens on Thursday, August 6, 2026. Management will host a live conference call and webcast at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on that day to discuss the Company’s financial performance and operating results.  The conference call will be hosted by Nirav Patel, President and CEO, and Kannan Sugantharaman, Chief Financial and Operations Officer.

Those wishing to participate via webcast should access the call through Mastech Digital’s Investor Relations website at https://investors.mastechdigital.com. Those wishing to participate via telephone may dial in at 1-800-715-9871 (USA) or 1-646-307-1963 (International) with the passcode 7506988. The replay will be available via webcast through Mastech Digital’s Investor Relations website.

Upcoming Investor Conference:

Mr. Sugantharaman will host a fireside chat at the Sidoti Micro-Cap Investor Conference on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time.

Mastech Digital management is scheduled to host virtual one-on-one and small group meetings with investors during the conference on August 19-20, 2026. Investors interested in arranging a meeting should contact their Sidoti representative or reach out to the Mastech Digital investor relations team at investors@mastechdigital.com.

About Mastech Digital, Inc.

Mastech Digital (NYSE American: MHH) is a leading provider of Digital Transformation IT Services. The Company offers Data Management, Analytics & AI Solutions, and IT Staffing Services with a digital-first approach. A minority-owned enterprise, Mastech Digital is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with offices across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and India. Visit us at www.mastechdigital.com.

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SOLAI Limited Announces Extraordinary General Meeting

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AKRON, Ohio, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SOLAI Limited (NYSE: SLAI) (“SOLAI” or the “Company”) (previously known as “BIT Mining Limited”), a technology-driven personal AI and digital infrastructure provider, today announced that it will hold its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders at 428 South Seiberling Street, Akron, Ohio, US on August 14, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., New York time.

Holders of record of ordinary shares and preference shares of the Company at the close of business on July 20, 2026, New York time (the “Record Date”) are entitled to receive notice of, and to attend and vote at, the extraordinary general meeting or any adjournment thereof. Holders of the Company’s American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying ordinary shares must act through the depositary of the Company’s ADS program, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas.

The notice of the extraordinary general meeting, which sets forth the resolutions to be submitted to shareholder approval at the extraordinary general meeting is available on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at https://ir.solai.com. 

About SOLAI Limited

SOLAI Limited (previously known as “BIT Mining Limited”) (NYSE: SLAI) (previously traded under “BTCM”) is a technology-driven personal AI and digital infrastructure provider. Building upon its historical legacy in digital asset mining and blockchain network operations, the Company is leveraging extensive experience in large-scale hardware deployment, data center operations, and high-performance computing to build the foundational infrastructure for personal AI computing and digital asset ecosystems globally.

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TrendAI™ Adopts Claude Opus 5 to Advance Vulnerability Prioritization and Virtual Patching

As a participant in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, TrendAI applies frontier reasoning to convert vulnerability intelligence into faster protection across hybrid environments

DALLAS, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), today announced it is adopting Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s latest and most capable Opus model, to help security teams convert vulnerability intelligence into immediate protection, from prioritization to virtual patching. The move builds on TrendAI’s collaboration with Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.8, extending the same defensive focus to a model that delivers step-change gains in advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and long-horizon analysis. As AI makes finding vulnerabilities easier than ever, the harder problem becomes protecting organizations faster than software can be permanently patched, and that is where TrendAI is putting Opus 5 to work.

As a participant in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, which credentials organizations for the defensive use of frontier AI models, TrendAI is positioned to apply Claude Opus 5 to defensive security as access becomes available. The model is Zero Data Retention compatible, supporting TrendAI’s governance and data-protection requirements as it scales AI across security operations.

The work extends to TrendAI Threat Research, where frontier AI models are combined with our proprietary frontier intelligence engine and human expertise to generate pre-disclosure intelligence. Those insights power TrendAI Vision One™, delivering stronger detection, deeper forensic insights, and proactive protection through virtual patching.

Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™:
“With Claude Opus 5, TrendAI can move from vulnerability intelligence to action faster than ever, prioritizing what matters most by exploitability and business impact. Finding the vulnerability was always the hard part. Now the challenge is protecting organizations faster than software can be permanently patched, and frontier reasoning is what changes that equation, extending all the way to virtual patching that protects customers before a vendor fix ships. This is what it means to secure the AI age, fearlessly.”

These capabilities support TrendAI Vision One™ in helping security analysts, AppSec teams, and SOC teams prioritize exposure, map attack paths, and accelerate mitigation, including virtual patching, across hybrid environments, moving vulnerability management from a static scanning process into a faster, context-aware risk mitigation workflow.

About TrendAI™
TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments across 185 countries, TrendAI™ secures the entire organization, from identities, to infrastructure, to data. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on TrendAI™ to cut risk and stop threats up to three months earlier, powered by world-leading threat and attack intelligence. Through deep ecosystem partnerships with market leaders like NVIDIA, Anthropic, AWS, Google, and Microsoft, TrendAI™ empowers your organization to securely drive forward at the speed of AI. AI Fearlessly. Learn more: trendaisecurity.com

About Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its Claude family of models, including Claude Opus 5, enables advanced capabilities across a wide range of applications, including code understanding and security analysis.

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