Secure Web Gateway

A Secure Web Gateway appliance needs to sit in the data path to be able to process enterprise traffic. An appliance is required at every location that accesses the Internet.

As all WAN and Internet traffic goes through the Cato Cloud there are no blind spots and no need to deploy multiple appliances, of different providers, to cover all traffic.

A Secure Web Gateway applies various security engines to the traffic including IPS, anti-malware, URL filtering and more. The ability to run these engines in parallel is subject to the appliance capacity. Smaller appliances, such as UTMs, are especially limited in their scalability, extensibility and inspection capabilities.

Cato can inspect any mix of encrypted and unencrypted traffic with all supported security services. Customers don’t have to go through sizing exercises or forced upgrades. Cato ensures capacity is available to provide customers the subscribed service.

A Secure Web Gateway needs to inspect both encrypted (SSL) and unencrypted traffic at line speed. As the share of SSL traffic increases, forced appliance upgrades may become a necessity.

Cato can inspect all traffic, both encrypted and unencrypted with all supported security services and with no performance degradation. Inspection capacity is handled exclusively by Cato to ensure support for licensed capacity.

A distributed environment requires multiple appliances at each location, each with its own set of rules. Each appliance life cycle has to be managed separately. It has to be bought, deployed, configured, patched, updated and ultimately replaced either due to an End of Life (EOL) or business growth.

Without the need to size, upgrade, patch or refresh appliances, customers are relieved of the on going grunt work of keeping their network security up to date against emerging threats and evolving business needs.