CIO Bulletin

Innovative SASE solutions helping customers transform their security infrastructure: Cato Networks

In today’s digital world, SASE or Secure Access Service Edge is gaining importance. It is a cloud architecture model that bundles network and security-as-a-service functions together and delivers them as a single cloud service. SASE allows organizations to unify their network and security tools in a single management console. This provides a simple security and networking tool that is independent of where employees and resources are located. SASE requires little to no hardware, using the widespread connectivity of cloud technology to combine SD-WAN with network security functions. Globally, there are various companies providing excellent SASE services, Cato Networks stands out among them.

Cato provides the world’s most robust single-vendor SASE platform, converging Cato SD-WAN and a complete cloud-native security service edge, Cato SSE 360, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) into a global cloud service. Cato optimizes and secures application access for all users, locations, and applications and empowers IT with a simple and easy to manage networking and security architecture.

SSE 360

Cato’s cloud-native security stack, SSE 360, is built using the Cato Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE) architecture and converges the following capabilities: Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA/SDP), and Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) with Advanced Threat Prevention (IPS, Next Generation Anti-malware). SSE 360 scales to decrypt and inspect all enterprise traffic, without the need for sizing, patching, or upgrading of appliances and other point solutions. Security policies and events are centrally and uniformly managed using the self-service Cato Management Application.Cato can further secure your network with a comprehensive Managed Threat Detection and Response (MDR) service to detect compromised endpoints. With Cato SSE 360, you gain the benefit of consistent security across your entire network while offloading the day to day management to Cato. No more capacity planning, software upgrades, operational complexities, or hidden costs. At the same time, you maintain granular control of all your security policies, with easy configuration through Cato’s Management Application. Cato’s network was designed with security in mind. All of Cato’s PoPs are interconnected using fully-meshed, encrypted tunnels. Customers connect to Cato through encrypted tunnels, established by the Cato Socket (a zero-touch appliance deployed at physical locations), or through IPsec tunnels from existing devices. All of its security capabilities are backed by its massive data warehouse to detect and protect your network from the most advanced threats. As part of the service, Cato employs a dedicated research team of security experts, Cato Security Research Labs, which continuously monitor, analyze and tune all the security engines, risk data feeds, and databases to optimize customer protection.

Remote Access

Cato SASE Cloud provides users with zero trust network access (SDP/ZTNA) to on-premises and cloud applications using laptops, tablets, and smartphones. With a Cato Client or Clienteles browser access, users securely connect to the nearest Cato PoP using strong Multi-Factor Authentication. Traffic flows only to applications authorized for the users based on identity, access policy, and user context. Throughout the session, traffic is fully inspected by Cato’s security stack to prevent malware propagation from compromised endpoints. Enterprises are seeing a growing need for employees to work remotely. In particular, during times of crisis the ability to work securely and productively from home is a critical pillar of business continuity planning. Cato SDP enables remote users, through a client or clientless browser access, to access all business applications, via secure and optimized connection. The Cato Cloud, a global cloud-native service, can scale to accommodate any number of users without deploying dedicated VPN infrastructure. The users connect to the nearest Cato PoP, and their traffic is optimally routed across the Cato global private backbone to on-premises or cloud applications. Cato’s Security as a Service stack protects remote users against threats and enforces application access control.

Global Private Backbone

Cato SASE Cloud runs on a private global backbone of 75+ PoPs connected via multiple SLA-backed network providers. The PoPs software continuously monitors the providers for latency, packet loss, and jitter to determine, in real-time, the best route for every packet. Cato’s backbone design delivers end-to-end route optimization for WAN and cloud traffic, and a self-healing architecture for maximum service uptime. Cato’s customers experience connectivity that is superior to the unpredictable public Internet and more affordable than global MPLS and other legacy backbones. Enterprises have long struggled with finding reliable and affordable global connectivity. Global MPLS connections come at a high cost for limited bandwidth, if they’re available at all. The Internet, already unpredictable, is only made worse by the latency of long-distance global connections. Cato solves the global connectivity problem. The Cato global private backbone is a private network spanning 65+ points of presence (PoPs) worldwide. The backbone is affordable and managed by Cato personnel.

Meet the Leader behind the Success of Cato Networks

Shlomo Kramer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in highly successful enterprise software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, Gong, and numerous others.