The Magic Quadrant for Single Vendor SASE and the Cato SASE Experience

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Customer experience isn’t just an important aspect of the SASE market, it is its essence. SASE isn’t about groundbreaking features. It is about a new way to deliver and consume established networking and security features and to solve, once and for all, the complexity and risks that has been plaguing IT for so long.

This is an uncharted territory for customers, channels, and analyst firms. The “features” benchmark is clear: whoever has the most features created over the past two decades in CASB, SWG, NGFW, SD-WAN, and ZTNA – is the “best.” But with SASE, more features aren’t necessarily better if they can’t be deployed, managed, scaled, optimized, or used globally in a seamless way. Rather, it is the “architecture” that creates the customer experience that is the essence of SASE: having the “features” delivered anywhere, at scale, with full resiliency and optimal security posture, to any location, user, or application. This calls for a global cloud-native service architecture that is converged, secure, self-maintaining, self-healing, and self-optimizing.

The SASE architecture, built from the ground up and not through duct taping products from different generations and acquisitions, is the basis for the superior SASE experience. It is seamlessly managed by a single console (really, just one) to make management and configuration consistent, easy, and intuitive. Users create a rich unified policy using the full access context to drive prevention and detection decisions. A single data lake is fed with all events, decisions, and contexts across all domains for streamlined end-to-end visibility and analysis.

It is important to understand this ‘’features’’ vs. ‘’architectures’ dichotomy. Imagine you would rank any Android phone vs. an iPhone on any reasonable list of attributes. The Android phones had, for years, better hardware, more features, more flexibility, lower cost, and bigger market share. And yet they failed to stop Apple since the launch of the iPhone, for that illusive quality called the “Apple experience.”

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Carlsberg called Cato “The Apple of Networking.” Customers understand and value the “Cato SASE Experience” even when our SD-WAN device or converged CASB engine are missing a feature. They know they can get it, if needed, through our high-velocity roadmap that is made possible by our architecture.  

What is very hard to do, is to build and mature a SASE architecture that is foundational to any SASE feature. To achieve that, Cato had built the largest SASE cloud in the world with over 80 PoPs. We optimized the service to set a record for SASE throughput from a single location at 5 Gbps with full encryption/decryption and security inspection. We had deployed massive global enterprises with the most demanding real-time and mission-critical workloads with sustained optimal performance and security posture.

And the “features”? We roll them out at a pace of 3,000 enhancements per year, on a bi-weekly schedule, without compromising availability, security, or the customer experience. Cato is expanding its SASE platform outside the core network security market boundaries and into adjacent categories such as endpoint protection, extended detection and response, and IoT that can benefit from the same streamlined architecture.

Cato delivers the true SASE experience. That powerful simplicity customers have been longing for.  

Try us.  

Cato. We are SASE.  

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest,16 August 2023

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