Platform Architecture
Cato SASE Platform Architecture
Secure and optimized access for everyone, everywhere, at any scale, and to any application — while offloading day-to-day work from your IT and reducing dependency on scarce skills.
Today’s Challenges
Legacy architectures hold the business back.
Legacy infrastructure silos
Multiple point solutions and legacy WAN/appliance refreshes create cost, complexity, and integration burden — slowing innovation and burning IT resources.
Expensive maintenance
IT burden
Blind spots
Our Approach
Converge. Distribute. Automate.
Cato converges networking and security into one cloud-native platform — built from the ground up, not stitched together. A single-pass engine, a global private cloud, and one open data lake work together to secure and optimize every user, site, and application.
Converge in a single-pass engine
The Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE) converges NGFW, threat prevention, and CASB/DLP/ZTNA into one cloud-native stack, enforcing policy consistently for inline and out-of-band traffic.
Distribute on a global cloud
Thousands of SPACEs run on bare-metal compute across worldwide PoPs, interconnected by tier-1 carriers and delivering low-latency inspection close to every user and location.
Automate with AI across the platform
Continuously trained on a massive data lake, AI self-heals infrastructure, auto-classifies apps and devices, and augments SecOps with root-cause analysis and response recommendations.
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How it works
Platform Architecture Capabilities
Single-pass engine
Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE)
Cato’s core security engine converges flow control and segmentation, threat prevention, and application and data protection into one cloud-native stack — enforcing policy consistently for inline and out-of-band traffic.
NGFW flow control and network segmentation
Threat prevention — SWG, IPS, NGAM, RBI
App & data protection — CASB, DLP, ZTNA
Purpose-built backbone
A purpose-built global cloud
Thousands of SPACEs run on bare-metal compute across worldwide PoPs, interconnected by multiple tier-1 carriers — delivering low-latency inspection close to every user and location.
Global private backbone of PoPs
Multiple tier-1 carriers, no hyperscaler dependency
Low-latency inspection close to every edge
One open data lake
An open data platform
Every inspected flow feeds rich network, device, user, app, and data context — plus hundreds of third-party feeds — into one open data lake, accessible through the Cato API.
Rich per-flow context from every edge
Hundreds of Cato & third-party feeds
Queryable via the Cato API
Single policy engine
Unified policy control, everywhere
All capabilities — NGFW, CASB, DLP, ZTNA, threat prevention, and AI controls — run on a single policy engine. This eliminates the inconsistency that leaves gaps attackers exploit. One policy definition enforces consistently across every user, site, application, and location.
One policy definition for networking, security, and access
Consistent enforcement across every edge and location
Eliminates gaps and simplifies compliance audits
Customer Stories
Customers love Cato
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Today, my team is working from one platform, one console, and one view of the entire environment. We’re 80% of the way to full Zero Trust, costs are down, and instead of managing vendor sprawl, we’re focused on moving the business forward. That’s what Cato made possible.
Douglas Arnn
Director of IT Infrastructure, Trimark
CIO and CISO
Manufacturing Company
Joel Jacobson
Global WAN Manager, Vitesco Technologies
IT Leader
Global Manufacturing Company
Mr. Takahashi
Infrastructure Team Leader, HIS Group
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Secure every interaction across the enterprise, cloud, and AI with the only purpose-built SASE platform.
What to expect
15–30 minute session with a SASE product expert
Discuss your use cases and how we can help
Live product demonstration where applicable
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What’s new
Recognized across the industry
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The Cato SASE Cloud Platform: SASE Elegance at Its Best
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The Platform Makes All the SASE Difference
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A Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platformsfor the third year running
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Frost & Sullivan: Cato SASE Cloud Platform Report
