Say Goodbye to SaaS Security Gaps with Cato CASB 

Introduction 

As organizations increasingly depend on SaaS applications, IT teams struggle with visibility and governance. Shadow IT, unmanaged devices, and limited monitoring capabilities create blind spots, exposing enterprises to compliance violations, data exfiltration, and insider threats. Risks don’t come only from unsanctioned applications: even widely used SaaS platforms can become a security liability when not properly controlled. 

CASB solutions in the market today provide inline control and API-based monitoring capabilities, but these are typically confined to separate consoles. This fragmented approach can lead to gaps in security, particularly when users operate outside corporate networks. A typical example is an employee using an unmanaged device to download a large volume of sensitive data from Salesforce before leaving the company, creating a major insider threat. 

Cato has enhanced its CASB capabilities to address these challenges by converging inline and offline (API-based) SaaS app monitoring into a unified dashboard. These enhancements provide full visibility into users’ activities, improved anomaly detection, and seamless governance across sanctioned and unsanctioned applications—all without adding complexity. 

Benefits of Cato’s CASB enhancements 

The unique architecture of the Cato SASE Cloud platform is the basis of Cato’s robust CASB solution. Cato’s CASB already delivers a powerful Shadow IT discovery dashboard, leveraging proprietary data mining technology to analyze billions of user flows traversing our platform daily. New applications, identified through real-world usage, are continuously added to the dashboard, ensuring IT admins stay ahead of emerging Shadow IT risks with up-to-date visibility and control. 

With the latest CASB enhancements, Cato extends visibility and control over SaaS apps beyond traditional security solutions by offering comprehensive coverage across both Shadow IT and sanctioned SaaS applications. These improvements provide four key benefits to security teams:  

1. Enhanced Visibility across Popular SaaS Applications 

The new Cato Cloud Activities Dashboard seamlessly consolidates user activity across popular SaaS applications into a unified view. IT teams gain real-time visibility into user behavior, data movement, and security risks across both managed and unmanaged users—all from one intuitive console. 

Cato’s Cloud Activities Dashboard enhances visibility by: 

• Detecting a broader range of user activities, from logins and file downloads to permission changes and external sharing. 

• Categorizing activities into meaningful groups, such as “Communication and Collaboration,” “Share,” or “Downloads,” allowing IT to focus on what matters. 

• Aggregating related activities into clear insights, reducing alert fatigue, and simplifying investigations. 

Example:  

A departing employee is suspected of uploading sensitive files to a personal cloud storage. Using Cato’s newly unified activity dashboard, IT Teams can filter all uploads made by the employee when using a corporate device and when using a personal device by simply toggling a switch.  

2. Intelligent Anomaly Detection 

Cato CASB now provides behavioral analytics to help identify high-risk activities, such as: 

• Bulk downloads of sensitive data beyond normal thresholds. 

• Unauthorized file sharing with external domains. 

• Multiple failed login attempts, indicating possible credential stuffing attacks. 

Example: 

A sales engineer typically downloads 10MB of Salesforce reports per week. Suddenly, they download 5GB in one day. Cato’s anomaly detection flags this as a potential data exfiltration attempt, allowing security teams to investigate and respond immediately. 

3. Unified Control for Managed and Unmanaged Devices 

Security teams often lack visibility into Corporate SaaS access from personal or unmanaged devices. The new Cato Cloud Activity Dashboard addresses this by unifying all SaaS application activities detected via inline and API-based access under one dashboard.  This extends governance to remote employees, contractors, and third-party vendors. 

Example: 

A contractor using a personal laptop accesses a corporate SharePoint site and downloads multiple confidential files. With API-based visibility, security teams can detect and review this activity—even if the device is unmanaged. 

4. Operational Simplicity: A Single Pane of Glass 

Unlike traditional CASBs that require security teams to jump between multiple consoles, Cato’s enhancements streamline SaaS security into a single management interface.  Security teams can now view all inline and API events in a unified dashboard. 

• Normalize disparate SaaS activity logs for consistency. 

• Quickly enforce policies across multiple applications without needing separate tools. 

Example: 

Instead of reviewing separate logs from Salesforce, SharePoint, and Zendesk, administrators can see all user activity in one interface, reducing investigation time and improving response efficiency. 

Conclusion 

Cato’s enhanced CASB capabilities combine the depth of API-based visibility with the immediacy of inline policy enforcement—all within the Cato SASE Cloud platform.  

By deploying Cato’ CASB, organizations gain: 

✅ Complete SaaS visibility across sanctioned and unsanctioned applications. 
✅ Improved anomaly detection for insider threats and suspicious activities. 
✅ Streamlined governance for managed and unmanaged users. 
✅ Operational efficiency with a single-pane-of-glass solution. 

Want to see how Cato CASB Enhancements can improve your SaaS security and governance? Check out our demo and website for more information.