Cato Networks
The Platform Makes all the SASE Difference
Cato is the world’s first SASE platform, converging SD-WAN and network security into a global, cloud-native service. Cato optimizes and secures application access for all users and locations. Using Cato, customers easily migrate from MPLS to SD-WAN, optimize connectivity to on-premises and cloud applications, enable secure branch Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrate cloud datacenters and mobile users into the network with a zero-trust architecture. With Cato, the network, and your business, are ready for whatever’s next.
What is SASE?
Secure Access Service Edge
Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, is an enterprise networking and security category introduced by Gartner. SASE converges SD-WAN, a Cloud Network, and Security Service Edge (SSE) functions, including FWaaS, CASB, DLP, SWG, and ZTNA, into a unified, cloud-native service.
With SASE, enterprises can eliminate the effort and costs required to maintain complex and fragmented infrastructure made of point solutions, reduce the risk for breach and data loss with optimal security posture, enable secure work from anywhere, and improve access to global applications on premises and in the cloud.
How Does SASE Work?
SASE provides a single cloud-based network that connects and secures any physical, cloud, or mobile enterprise resource, in any location. A SASE architecture has four main characteristics:
Identity-driven
User identity form the basis for risk-based access policies that also consider the user’s device posture, the sensitivity of the data or application being accessed, and the desired action. The policy seamlessly follows the user in the office, on the road, and at home to ensure consistent enforcement everywhere.
Cloud-native
Cloud-native SASE is elastic, self-healing, and self-maintaining. Delivered as a global cloud service SASE rapidly adapts to emerging business needs and make all network and security capabilities available everywhere.
Support for all edges
SASE delivers consistent security and optimization to any enterprise edge including on-premises and cloud data centers, branch offices, and down to a single user or device.
Globally distributed
SASE is built on an extensible global cloud network to deliver low-latency networking and security capabilities to all users and business locations.
The Key Components of SASE
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
SD-WAN enables optimal WAN management. SASE leverages SD-WAN capabilities to provide optimized network routing, global connectivity, WAN and Internet security, cloud acceleration, and remote access.
Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
SWG protect users against malware, phishing, and other web-borne threats. SASE offers SWG protection to all users, at all locations, without the added latency of routing traffic to inspection in specific locations.
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
A firewall is the foundation of any network security stack. SASE includes FWaaS to provide the scalability and elasticity needed for the digital business and to extend a full network security stack wherever needed.
Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
ZTNA offers a modern approach to securing application access for users. It embraces a zero-trust policy, where application access is dynamically adjusted based on user identity, location, device posture, and more. SASE continuously inspects all ZTNA sessions for risks and naturally extends to provide endpoint protection, detection and response.
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
CASB helps enterprises monitor the usage of SaaS applications, both sanctioned and unsanctioned (“Shadow IT”), and apply access policies based on user identity, application risk, and nature of the action and data being used.
Global Cloud Network
The Cloud Network optimizes global routing, latency sensitive traffic such as voice and video, and cloud and on-premises application access for all sources and destinations.
Unified Management
SASE solves the complexity of managing multiple disparate products. A true SASE allows users to monitor and manage all network and security solutions from a single pane of glass.
The Benefits of SASE
Improving agility
With SASE using a cloud-first and thin edge design, deployment is quick and easy. Zero touch and self-service provisioning enables users and locations to be onboarded in minutes, anywhere in the world, and benefit from the cloud-delivered security and optimization capabilities.
Improving security
via unified policies
SASE provides full visibility and control across, WAN, Internet, and Cloud. Full traffic coverage ensures corporate policies apply to all edges, regardless of source and destination.
Autonomous Service Lifecycle Management
A cloud-native service, SASE automatically maintains optimal security posture against emerging threats, recovers from service infrastructure disruption to ensure service continuity, and can extend and scale to accommodate massive traffic loads and growing customer geographical footprints.
Comparing Legacy Solutions with Cato SASE Cloud
| Cato SASE Cloud | Legacy solutions | |
| Service Agility | Quick and Easy | Slow and Cumbersome |
| Cato enables IT teams to deliver optimized networking and powerful security to all sites, applications, and users regardless of location. Provisioning new resources is fast and simple with the full range of Cato’s optimization and security capabilities instantly available. | IT teams have to configure multiple solutions through multiple consoles, struggling to maintain consistency and control of the infrastructure. Provisioning new resources is slow and dependent on complex multi-product integrations. | |
| Visibility & Control | Teamwork, Regained | The Dreaded Silos |
| IT teams leverage Cato’s converged software stack to maximize visibility into network traffic and security events. From the same interface, IT professionals configure and enforce corporate policies across the business. This enables better cross-team collaboration, improving overall service delivery to the business. | Technical silos created by point solutions limit collaboration across teams. Lack of visibility and fragmented control leads to slower troubleshooting, increased security exposure, and overall lower satisfaction levels from the business. | |
| Infrastructure Management | Focus on the Business | Boatload of Busy Work |
| With Cato, IT teams are relieved of the grunt work of maintaining the infrastructure. Cato ensures the service is up-to-date and ready to optimize and secure all customer network traffic everywhere. This enables IT to focus precious resources and skills on business-specific requirements. | Owning and managing multiple on-premise solutions for networking and security forces IT teams to spend a lot of time on generic, day-to-day management, scaling, sizing, and upgrading of products. This leaves them little to no time to get business-specific projects done. | |
| Cost Effectiveness | Simplicity Costs Less | Complexity is Expensive |
| Cato dramatically simplifies the delivery of networking and security to the business. The capabilities you require are built in not bolted on and there is no need to size, scale, or maintain the Cato service. Cato’s converged, cloud-based platform and flexible management options enables significant cost reduction. | Buying, integrating and maintaining multiple products is costly. Each product has to be sized to support current needs and future growth and often requires upgrades as requirements change. As the number of point products grow, complexity increases exponentially. And, moving complexity to the service providers only increases their costs, leading enterprises paying more or suffering lower quality of service. |
SASE value
for WAN Transformation
Digital transformation and the WAN transformation it mandates doesn’t happen overnight. It is often comprised of multiple projects involving SD-WAN, Internet security, cloud migration, mobile access, and more.
When considering your next incremental investment in your network (SD-WAN, a global connectivity solution, or a security solution), ask yourself if the right decision is choosing a point solution that addresses the current project needs, or a strategic SASE platform that can address both current and future projects requirements.
| Replace MPLS / Increase BW | Global Connectivity | Secure DIA | Optimize Cloud Access | Optimize Mobile Access | Really Simple Management |
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| SASE | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Edge SD-WAN | √ | x | x | ◑ | x | x |
| Private Global Backbone | x | √ | x | √ | x | x |
| NGFW / UTM | √ | x | √ | x | ◑ | x |
| SWGs | x | x | √ | x | √ | x |
SASE: A single platform that can support your current and future IT projects
Products
Cato Cloud: The World’s First SASE Platform, converging SD-WAN and Network Security in the Cloud
Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources, including branch locations, the mobile workforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global and secure, cloud-native network service. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a suite of security services to protect all traffic at all times.
Cato Cloud is comprised of the following pillars: a global private backbone to provide predictable connectivity everywhere, edge SD-WAN to manage multiple last mile links and quality of service, security as a service stack to protect all traffic from locations and users, secure and optimized access to cloud resources and mobile users, and a self-service management application
Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
Cato SD-WAN provides secure and resilient connectivity for branches and datacenters on-premises and in the cloud, and replaces expensive private connectivity options. Zero-touch deployment model makes enterprise rollout quick and simple. Administrators gain comprehensive visibility and control over application traffic performance and prioritization.
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
CASB provides IT managers with comprehensive insight into their organization’s cloud application usage, covering both sanctioned and unsanctioned (Shadow IT) applications. Cato’s CASB enables the assessment of each SaaS application to evaluate its potential risk, and the definition of highly granular and flexible access rules to ensure least-privilege and minimal risk exposure.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Cato DLP empowers organizations to consistently protect sensitive data across users, locations, and clouds. Comprehensive DLP control is essential to ensuring compliance with regulations such as GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and protecting intellectual property and proprietary information.
Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) allows organizations to create a single access policy to enterprise resources based on risk and least privilege principles, and enforce it on all users regardless of location – in the office, at home or remote.
By using Cato, enterprises can:
Easily migrate from MPLS to SD-WAN with Cato’s end-to-end network optimization
Improve performance between global locations by using Cato’s affordable global private backbone vs the unpredictable Internet or costly global MPLS
Optimize and secure cloud access with Cato’s agentless cloud integration and the Cato global private backbone by any user, and from anywhere and without using premium cloud connectivity solutions like AWS DirectConnect and Microsoft ExpressRoute.
Provide direct, secure internet access to all branch locations and mobile users with Cato’s built-in security as a service and without deploying security point solutions
Optimize and secure mobile users access with Cato Client or clientless access options to physical and cloud data centers, and cloud applications
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