Building a Global Zero Trust Foundation: How Indovinya Accelerated Secure Growth with Cato Networks

Baltimore Aircoil Replaces MPLS with Cato, Improving Voice Quality, Enabling Video Conferencing, and Increasing Agility Summary: Indovinya, a specialty chemicals division of Indorama Ventures, produces ingredients found in roughly 90% of consumer households. Following a major business transition in 2020, a lean IT team was tasked with establishing a secure, scalable global network across four continents within an accelerated timeline. By selecting Cato Networks, the team completed the migration in a single 14-hour cutover and has since supported acquisitions, strengthened security, and enabled business growth without disrupting operations. Key Results Global cutover time decreased from a typical 36 to 48 hours (with MPLS) to 14 hours, a 60 to 70% reduction, across a dozen-plus sites Avoided hiring 5 to 6 security FTEs to run global security Initial security incident triage completed 50 to 60% faster (vs. raw log analysis) New sites deployable over the phone with no on-site IT staff required Building a Global Security Foundation Under an Accelerated Timeline Few technology leaders have the opportunity to design a global infrastructure from a clean slate while supporting a business transformation of this scale. Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity at Indorama Ventures' Indovinya, got that chance in 2020. But there was a catch: he had only six months to get it done. Indorama Ventures is what Boeta likes to call “the largest chemical company you’ve never heard of,” a Forbes Global 2000 petrochemicals and specialty chemicals conglomerate. In 2020, Indorama Ventures acquired a portfolio of global chemical businesses from Huntsman and established a dedicated specialty chemicals segment that would later become Indovinya. Boeta joined as one of four original IT staff brought in to get it running. As the scope of the transition became clearer, the team identified the need to establish a secure and unified network across more than a dozen sites worldwide. “The scope quickly became clear,” Boeta recalls. “At that point, execution and speed became our priorities.” That focus led him to Cato Networks and a result better than he could’ve imagined. Boeta has been preaching Cato’s virtues to anyone who’ll listen ever since. The Case for Cato: Speed Without Sacrificing Security Boeta’s team evaluated the platforms available at the time. Installing traditional infrastructure (dedicated circuits), hardware procurement, and months of on-site work, wasn’t viable against a six-month deadline across a dozen-plus sites on four continents. Cato stood out as one of the only platforms that could deliver zero-trust security over standard broadband circuits, with sites going live over the phone in as little as 30 days. “What swayed the decision was the cloud solution Cato brings, with all of the software bolt-ons you just turn on,” Boeta says. Instead of stitching together separate tools for networking, security, and remote access, his team would have only one platform to manage. The real proof came during the cutover itself: a follow-the-sun operation out of a war room at headquarters, kicking off at midnight Saturday and cutting over region by region, starting in India and moving west. “A cutover weekend with MPLS and hardware appliances is typically sleeping in your office chair all the way through Monday morning,” Boeta says. “It would’ve normally been up to 48 hours. We did it in 14.” “A cutover weekend with MPLS and hardware appliances is typically sleeping in your office chair all the way through Monday morning. It would’ve normally been up to 48 hours. We did it in 14.”Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity, Indovinya By 2 p.m. on Sunday, every site was live, and Boeta was eating dinner at home instead of chasing escalations. The bigger test came weeks later, when the cutover held clean through mid-December’s holiday staffing lull with no need for him to check in. “That’s when it clicked for me,” he says of the stretch that made him a fervent believer in the platform. Absorbing Growth Without Slowing Down The network Boeta built to meet a six-month deadline was tested again almost immediately, when Indorama acquired Oxiteno S.A., a global specialty ingredients company located in South America less than a year later, nearly doubling Indovinya overnight. “The technology is so easy it can make anybody look amazing,” Boeta says.ֿ “The technology is so easy it can make anybody look amazing.”Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity, Indovinya Belgium showed how far that ease extended. When Oxiteno’s previously remote Belgium staff moved into an existing Indovinya office, Boeta’s team shipped a Cato Socket and walked the executive assistant through setup over the phone, no IT staff on-site required. Reliability held up in less predictable moments, too. When a hurricane hit Houston, where Indovinya is headquartered, and sent part of the workforce home without warning, people just logged in from home on Cato's SDP client and kept working. No VPN to configure, no special access request, nothing. Home connections get treated the same as office ones, an approach that now covers all employees with SDP licenses. That kind of scale is why Indovinya’s 31-person IT Operations and Cybersecurity team can manage its global network for roughly 3,000 employees without additional headcount. “I can sleep at night. I can’t think of a case when Cato’s been down,” Boeta says. That reliability comes from Cato’s global mesh of 100+ PoPs, which reroutes traffic automatically around any outage, so no single point of failure can take a site down. That same trust extends to support, at least in Boeta’s own experience. “With other vendors, I’d have to make it a P1 incident just to get anyone’s attention,” Boeta says. “With Cato, I can put in an appropriately prioritized ticket and get a response in minutes. That response time is unbelievable.” Security That Keeps Pace With the Business Boeta’s answer for Cato’s biggest business win comes fast: security. Indovinya built its zero-trust model from scratch alongside the rest of the network, and four years later, it’s still what he points to first. “Cato is security. Cato is quick to execute. Easy to deploy. And has great support,” he says. That efficiency shows up directly in security headcount: “If we did not have Cato on the team, I would need another 5 or 6 employees to do what I’m doing now, and I still don’t think I could do it to this level, at this speed, or with this level of polish,” says Chad House, Manager, IT Security & Governance. “If we did not have Cato on the team, I would need another 5 or 6 employees to do what I’m doing now, and I still don’t think I could do it to this level, at this speed, or with this level of polish.”Chad House, Manager, IT Security & Governance, Indovinya That same efficiency shows up in day-to-day investigations. Sizing up an incident, how many users, from a site or remote, used to take House an hour or more of digging through raw logs with query language. Now Cato’s pre-built dashboards and filters surface that information automatically. “I went from blurry vision to somewhat clear to laser-focused, very quickly. I’d say we’re 50 to 60% faster on the initial uptake alone,” House says. That speed showed up under real pressure, too. When a phishing email was clicked at a remote site, the security operations center flagged it, the monitoring partner contained it, and House’s team used Cato AI Assist to locate the affected machine, call the site, and pull it offline, all within minutes. Becoming the Blueprint From day one, Boeta built Indovinya’s network with scale in mind: a clean, single domain built to expand, not patch over. Indovinya's experience demonstrated how a streamlined, scalable architecture could support business growth and serve as a reference for future infrastructure initiatives. What began as a complex global transition has evolved into a scalable and secure operating model that continues to support business growth and digital transformation.

CIAL Dun & Bradstreet Improves Networking and Security in Latin American with Cato Summary: Indovinya, a specialty chemicals division of Indorama Ventures, produces ingredients found in roughly 90% of consumer households. Following a major business transition in 2020, a lean IT team was tasked with establishing a secure, scalable global network across four continents within an accelerated timeline. By selecting Cato Networks, the team completed the migration in a single 14-hour cutover and has since supported acquisitions, strengthened security, and enabled business growth without disrupting operations. Key Results Global cutover time decreased from a typical 36 to 48 hours (with MPLS) to 14 hours, a 60 to 70% reduction, across a dozen-plus sites Avoided hiring 5 to 6 security FTEs to run global security Initial security incident triage completed 50 to 60% faster (vs. raw log analysis) New sites deployable over the phone with no on-site IT staff required Building a Global Security Foundation Under an Accelerated Timeline Few technology leaders have the opportunity to design a global infrastructure from a clean slate while supporting a business transformation of this scale. Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity at Indorama Ventures' Indovinya, got that chance in 2020. But there was a catch: he had only six months to get it done. Indorama Ventures is what Boeta likes to call “the largest chemical company you’ve never heard of,” a Forbes Global 2000 petrochemicals and specialty chemicals conglomerate. In 2020, Indorama Ventures acquired a portfolio of global chemical businesses from Huntsman and established a dedicated specialty chemicals segment that would later become Indovinya. Boeta joined as one of four original IT staff brought in to get it running. As the scope of the transition became clearer, the team identified the need to establish a secure and unified network across more than a dozen sites worldwide. “The scope quickly became clear,” Boeta recalls. “At that point, execution and speed became our priorities.” That focus led him to Cato Networks and a result better than he could’ve imagined. Boeta has been preaching Cato’s virtues to anyone who’ll listen ever since. The Case for Cato: Speed Without Sacrificing Security Boeta’s team evaluated the platforms available at the time. Installing traditional infrastructure (dedicated circuits), hardware procurement, and months of on-site work, wasn’t viable against a six-month deadline across a dozen-plus sites on four continents. Cato stood out as one of the only platforms that could deliver zero-trust security over standard broadband circuits, with sites going live over the phone in as little as 30 days. “What swayed the decision was the cloud solution Cato brings, with all of the software bolt-ons you just turn on,” Boeta says. Instead of stitching together separate tools for networking, security, and remote access, his team would have only one platform to manage. The real proof came during the cutover itself: a follow-the-sun operation out of a war room at headquarters, kicking off at midnight Saturday and cutting over region by region, starting in India and moving west. “A cutover weekend with MPLS and hardware appliances is typically sleeping in your office chair all the way through Monday morning,” Boeta says. “It would’ve normally been up to 48 hours. We did it in 14.” “A cutover weekend with MPLS and hardware appliances is typically sleeping in your office chair all the way through Monday morning. It would’ve normally been up to 48 hours. We did it in 14.”Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity, Indovinya By 2 p.m. on Sunday, every site was live, and Boeta was eating dinner at home instead of chasing escalations. The bigger test came weeks later, when the cutover held clean through mid-December’s holiday staffing lull with no need for him to check in. “That’s when it clicked for me,” he says of the stretch that made him a fervent believer in the platform. Absorbing Growth Without Slowing Down The network Boeta built to meet a six-month deadline was tested again almost immediately, when Indorama acquired Oxiteno S.A., a global specialty ingredients company located in South America less than a year later, nearly doubling Indovinya overnight. “The technology is so easy it can make anybody look amazing,” Boeta says.ֿ “The technology is so easy it can make anybody look amazing.”Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity, Indovinya Belgium showed how far that ease extended. When Oxiteno’s previously remote Belgium staff moved into an existing Indovinya office, Boeta’s team shipped a Cato Socket and walked the executive assistant through setup over the phone, no IT staff on-site required. Reliability held up in less predictable moments, too. When a hurricane hit Houston, where Indovinya is headquartered, and sent part of the workforce home without warning, people just logged in from home on Cato's SDP client and kept working. No VPN to configure, no special access request, nothing. Home connections get treated the same as office ones, an approach that now covers all employees with SDP licenses. That kind of scale is why Indovinya’s 31-person IT Operations and Cybersecurity team can manage its global network for roughly 3,000 employees without additional headcount. “I can sleep at night. I can’t think of a case when Cato’s been down,” Boeta says. That reliability comes from Cato’s global mesh of 100+ PoPs, which reroutes traffic automatically around any outage, so no single point of failure can take a site down. That same trust extends to support, at least in Boeta’s own experience. “With other vendors, I’d have to make it a P1 incident just to get anyone’s attention,” Boeta says. “With Cato, I can put in an appropriately prioritized ticket and get a response in minutes. That response time is unbelievable.” Security That Keeps Pace With the Business Boeta’s answer for Cato’s biggest business win comes fast: security. Indovinya built its zero-trust model from scratch alongside the rest of the network, and four years later, it’s still what he points to first. “Cato is security. Cato is quick to execute. Easy to deploy. And has great support,” he says. That efficiency shows up directly in security headcount: “If we did not have Cato on the team, I would need another 5 or 6 employees to do what I’m doing now, and I still don’t think I could do it to this level, at this speed, or with this level of polish,” says Chad House, Manager, IT Security & Governance. “If we did not have Cato on the team, I would need another 5 or 6 employees to do what I’m doing now, and I still don’t think I could do it to this level, at this speed, or with this level of polish.”Chad House, Manager, IT Security & Governance, Indovinya That same efficiency shows up in day-to-day investigations. Sizing up an incident, how many users, from a site or remote, used to take House an hour or more of digging through raw logs with query language. Now Cato’s pre-built dashboards and filters surface that information automatically. “I went from blurry vision to somewhat clear to laser-focused, very quickly. I’d say we’re 50 to 60% faster on the initial uptake alone,” House says. That speed showed up under real pressure, too. When a phishing email was clicked at a remote site, the security operations center flagged it, the monitoring partner contained it, and House’s team used Cato AI Assist to locate the affected machine, call the site, and pull it offline, all within minutes. Becoming the Blueprint From day one, Boeta built Indovinya’s network with scale in mind: a clean, single domain built to expand, not patch over. Indovinya's experience demonstrated how a streamlined, scalable architecture could support business growth and serve as a reference for future infrastructure initiatives. What began as a complex global transition has evolved into a scalable and secure operating model that continues to support business growth and digital transformation.

Diamond Braces Uses Cato to Boost WAN Security, Performance, and Reliability Summary: Indovinya, a specialty chemicals division of Indorama Ventures, produces ingredients found in roughly 90% of consumer households. Following a major business transition in 2020, a lean IT team was tasked with establishing a secure, scalable global network across four continents within an accelerated timeline. By selecting Cato Networks, the team completed the migration in a single 14-hour cutover and has since supported acquisitions, strengthened security, and enabled business growth without disrupting operations. Key Results Global cutover time decreased from a typical 36 to 48 hours (with MPLS) to 14 hours, a 60 to 70% reduction, across a dozen-plus sites Avoided hiring 5 to 6 security FTEs to run global security Initial security incident triage completed 50 to 60% faster (vs. raw log analysis) New sites deployable over the phone with no on-site IT staff required Building a Global Security Foundation Under an Accelerated Timeline Few technology leaders have the opportunity to design a global infrastructure from a clean slate while supporting a business transformation of this scale. Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity at Indorama Ventures' Indovinya, got that chance in 2020. But there was a catch: he had only six months to get it done. Indorama Ventures is what Boeta likes to call “the largest chemical company you’ve never heard of,” a Forbes Global 2000 petrochemicals and specialty chemicals conglomerate. In 2020, Indorama Ventures acquired a portfolio of global chemical businesses from Huntsman and established a dedicated specialty chemicals segment that would later become Indovinya. Boeta joined as one of four original IT staff brought in to get it running. As the scope of the transition became clearer, the team identified the need to establish a secure and unified network across more than a dozen sites worldwide. “The scope quickly became clear,” Boeta recalls. “At that point, execution and speed became our priorities.” That focus led him to Cato Networks and a result better than he could’ve imagined. Boeta has been preaching Cato’s virtues to anyone who’ll listen ever since. The Case for Cato: Speed Without Sacrificing Security Boeta’s team evaluated the platforms available at the time. Installing traditional infrastructure (dedicated circuits), hardware procurement, and months of on-site work, wasn’t viable against a six-month deadline across a dozen-plus sites on four continents. Cato stood out as one of the only platforms that could deliver zero-trust security over standard broadband circuits, with sites going live over the phone in as little as 30 days. “What swayed the decision was the cloud solution Cato brings, with all of the software bolt-ons you just turn on,” Boeta says. Instead of stitching together separate tools for networking, security, and remote access, his team would have only one platform to manage. The real proof came during the cutover itself: a follow-the-sun operation out of a war room at headquarters, kicking off at midnight Saturday and cutting over region by region, starting in India and moving west. “A cutover weekend with MPLS and hardware appliances is typically sleeping in your office chair all the way through Monday morning,” Boeta says. “It would’ve normally been up to 48 hours. We did it in 14.” “A cutover weekend with MPLS and hardware appliances is typically sleeping in your office chair all the way through Monday morning. It would’ve normally been up to 48 hours. We did it in 14.”Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity, Indovinya By 2 p.m. on Sunday, every site was live, and Boeta was eating dinner at home instead of chasing escalations. The bigger test came weeks later, when the cutover held clean through mid-December’s holiday staffing lull with no need for him to check in. “That’s when it clicked for me,” he says of the stretch that made him a fervent believer in the platform. Absorbing Growth Without Slowing Down The network Boeta built to meet a six-month deadline was tested again almost immediately, when Indorama acquired Oxiteno S.A., a global specialty ingredients company located in South America less than a year later, nearly doubling Indovinya overnight. “The technology is so easy it can make anybody look amazing,” Boeta says.ֿ “The technology is so easy it can make anybody look amazing.”Kevin Boeta, Global Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity, Indovinya Belgium showed how far that ease extended. When Oxiteno’s previously remote Belgium staff moved into an existing Indovinya office, Boeta’s team shipped a Cato Socket and walked the executive assistant through setup over the phone, no IT staff on-site required. Reliability held up in less predictable moments, too. When a hurricane hit Houston, where Indovinya is headquartered, and sent part of the workforce home without warning, people just logged in from home on Cato's SDP client and kept working. No VPN to configure, no special access request, nothing. Home connections get treated the same as office ones, an approach that now covers all employees with SDP licenses. That kind of scale is why Indovinya’s 31-person IT Operations and Cybersecurity team can manage its global network for roughly 3,000 employees without additional headcount. “I can sleep at night. I can’t think of a case when Cato’s been down,” Boeta says. That reliability comes from Cato’s global mesh of 100+ PoPs, which reroutes traffic automatically around any outage, so no single point of failure can take a site down. That same trust extends to support, at least in Boeta’s own experience. “With other vendors, I’d have to make it a P1 incident just to get anyone’s attention,” Boeta says. “With Cato, I can put in an appropriately prioritized ticket and get a response in minutes. That response time is unbelievable.” Security That Keeps Pace With the Business Boeta’s answer for Cato’s biggest business win comes fast: security. Indovinya built its zero-trust model from scratch alongside the rest of the network, and four years later, it’s still what he points to first. “Cato is security. Cato is quick to execute. Easy to deploy. And has great support,” he says. That efficiency shows up directly in security headcount: “If we did not have Cato on the team, I would need another 5 or 6 employees to do what I’m doing now, and I still don’t think I could do it to this level, at this speed, or with this level of polish,” says Chad House, Manager, IT Security & Governance. “If we did not have Cato on the team, I would need another 5 or 6 employees to do what I’m doing now, and I still don’t think I could do it to this level, at this speed, or with this level of polish.”Chad House, Manager, IT Security & Governance, Indovinya That same efficiency shows up in day-to-day investigations. Sizing up an incident, how many users, from a site or remote, used to take House an hour or more of digging through raw logs with query language. Now Cato’s pre-built dashboards and filters surface that information automatically. “I went from blurry vision to somewhat clear to laser-focused, very quickly. I’d say we’re 50 to 60% faster on the initial uptake alone,” House says. That speed showed up under real pressure, too. When a phishing email was clicked at a remote site, the security operations center flagged it, the monitoring partner contained it, and House’s team used Cato AI Assist to locate the affected machine, call the site, and pull it offline, all within minutes. Becoming the Blueprint From day one, Boeta built Indovinya’s network with scale in mind: a clean, single domain built to expand, not patch over. Indovinya's experience demonstrated how a streamlined, scalable architecture could support business growth and serve as a reference for future infrastructure initiatives. What began as a complex global transition has evolved into a scalable and secure operating model that continues to support business growth and digital transformation.