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.
Cloud Access Security Broker Capabilities
Get Full Cloud Application Visibility and Shadow IT Control
With infinite cloud apps available, IT teams need visibility and control. Cato’s CASB monitors the enterprise’s internet traffic, reporting all cloud applications in a detailed dashboard—including high-risk apps, user activity, usage volume, and app categories. IT can easily tag apps as sanctioned or unsanctioned, streamlining cloud usage management and control.
Secure and Govern Usage of Generative AI
The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools presents new risks to organizations, often known as Shadow AI. Cato’s CASB enables organizations to harness GenAI securely without compromising data security, integrity or regulatory adherence. With complete visibility and control into GenAI application usage, IT teams can assess risks, enforce granular access controls, and detect sensitive data violations in real-time.
AI/ML-based Application Risk and Access Control
Manually validating the compliance of every cloud application is highly impractical for IT teams tasked with minimizing enterprise risk. As Cato’s CASB automatically discovers all cloud applications, it uses automated data collection and ML-based analysis to provide a calculated risk score for each application. Presented in a Cloud App catalog, each profile includes a description, compliance insights, and security controls. This gives IT the context they need to block high-risk apps, such as those lacking proper MFA/SSO or those failing to meet certain compliance requirements.
Govern What Users Do Within Cloud Applications
Cato’s CASB offers detailed inline monitoring of user actions (login, upload, download, view, etc.) within cloud apps via HTTP/S and API inspection. It enables IT teams to create granular policies that balance productivity and security. For example, permitting downloads while blocking uploads to unsanctioned file-sharing apps—ensuring secure yet flexible data exchange with external entities.
Stop Data Leaks with Enterprise SaaS Tenant Restriction
The same SaaS applications that are sanctioned and permitted by the enterprise may also be in private use by employees, posing a risk of sensitive data leakage. Following industry best practices, Cato CASB can limit access down to sanctioned tenants within sanctioned applications to ensure enterprise intellectual property doesn’t leak outside the enterprise without explicit permission.
Inline and Out-of-Band Application Access Controls
Cato’s CASB delivers real-time visibility and control of user actions across both managed and unmanaged devices. By combining inline inspection and API integrations, it identifies actions, data leaks, misconfigurations, and malware. The context-aware policy enforcement engine enables granular control that considers the source device and posture – ensuring safe, compliant access across all scenarios.
The Strategic Benefits of a True SASE Platform
Architected from the ground up as a true cloud-native SASE platform, all Cato’s security capabilities, today and in the future, leverage the global distribution, massive scalability, advanced resiliency, autonomous life cycle management, and consistent management model of the Cato platform.
Consistent Policy Enforcement
Cato extends all security capabilities globally to deliver consistent policy enforcement everywhere and to everyone, from the largest datacenters down to a single user device.
Scalable and Resilient Protection
Cato scales to inspect multi-gig traffic streams with full TLS decryption and across all security capabilities, and can automatically recover from service component failures to ensure continuous security protection.
Autonomous Life Cycle Management
Cato ensures the SASE cloud platform maintains optimal security posture, 99.999% service availability, and low-latency security processing for all users and locations, without any customer involvement.
Single Pane of Glass
Cato provides a single pane of glass to consistently manage all security and networking capabilities including configuration, analytics, troubleshooting, and incident detection and response. Unified management model eases new capabilities adoption by IT and the business.
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