Cato Networks Expands SASE and AI Platform in Nordics with New Oslo Data Center
Cato delivers advanced SASE capabilities, including AI security, seamless scalability, and superior network performance across the Nordics.
Tel Aviv, Israel – September 18, 2025 – Cato Networks, the SASE leader, announced today the opening of its newest Point of Presence (PoP) in Oslo. This new data center location extends Cato’s AI-powered network security platform to sites and users in Norway and across the Nordics.
“Demand for our security and networking SASE platform continues to grow here in the Nordics, and adding another Point of Presence (PoP) in the region further enhances our ability to serve and support our expanding customer base. By opening a PoP in Oslo, Cato can provide even better performance and reliability not only in Norway but to customers and partners throughout the Nordics region,” said Itai Levy, Area Director for Benelux and Nordics.
Cato Sees Strong Growth Across the Nordics
Cato Networks currently serves more than 80 enterprise customers across the Nordics region, including major brands such as Carlsberg, Elkjøp AS, Fiskars, and Flügger. Several trends drive the growing demand for Cato within region:
- AI transformation is sweeping through enterprises. With its recent acquisition of Aim Security, Cato enables secure AI adoption with full visibility and control over enterprise use of public AI applications, private AI applications and agents, and agentic AI development.
- The increasing amount of advanced cyberattacks targeting Nordic enterprises. According to Tietoevry’s Nordic Cyber Resilience Report, over 50% of respondents across Finland, Norway, and Sweden indicated they experienced at least one cyberattack causing serious disruption in the past year, while almost 90% expect cybercrime to increase further. Cato delivers robust security to enterprises of all sizes without the complexity of legacy solutions.
- The mounting complexity of organizational IT infrastructure. Legacy network security solutions are inadequate to address modern applications and networks, creating complexity for administrators and poor user experiences. More than half of enterprise applications1 now reside outside of on-premises data centers, rendering legacy perimeter-based architectures increasingly inadequate for modern digital business. Enterprises choose the Cato SASE Cloud Platform because it was built to eliminate complexity – not hide it.
By converging networking and security functions in a single platform, Cato tackles these challenges, enhancing protection against increasingly sophisticated threats, improving enterprise agility, and reducing operational overhead.
With the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, the Nordic electronics retailer Elkjøp streamlined a complex multi-vendor IT environment across more than 480 sites in different geographies. “For the first time, Black Friday wasn’t a crisis. No emergency calls. No rushed store visits. No chaos,” said Reno Dokken, Infrastructure Manager at Elkjøp. “Previously, a simple network change could take six weeks due to vendor coordination, but with Cato, we can accomplish this in seconds.”
PoPs Bring Performance, Resilience, and Scalability to the Nordics
The Oslo PoP will be Cato’s fourth PoP location within the Nordics that also includes PoPs in Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Stockholm. All PoPs are physically situated within their designated locations and deliver the full scope of Cato’s capabilities – network security, AI security, endpoint security, optimized networking, and detection and response.
Traffic is processed by Cato’s Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE). PoPs contains dozens of Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE) instances running in parallel to create a massively scalable and resilient architecture. This not only ensures uninterrupted service — with workloads automatically shifting to healthy SPACEs if one fails — but also continuously feeds rich data into Cato’s AI models for proactive threat analysis and instant mitigation. If a PoP becomes unreachable, traffic is seamlessly redirected to SPACEs in other PoPs, maintaining a secure, reliable user experience everywhere.
As part of the 85+ PoPs comprising the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, the Oslo PoP strengthens Cato’s performance and resilience in the Nordics and helps deliver consistent security and performance to enterprises in the more than 150 countries serviced by Cato.
Availability
The Cato SASE Cloud Platform is currently available across the Nordics through various channel partners. GSIs include Fujitsu Finland and Fujitsu Sweden; service providers include Telenor Sweden and Telia Cygate. MSPs and resellers include Axians, Bitpro AS, Bluetree, Cuebid, Embriq, Enfo, Itavis, Itm8, JMJping Oy, Mintly, NLogic Denmark, NLogic Sweden, Qestit, Secher Security ApS, Shift Security, and Simplified. Infinigate distributes Cato to partners across region.
- Gartner, Forecast Analysis: Secure Access Service Edge, Worldwide, Charanpal Bhogal, Charlie Winckless, Neil MacDonald, Andrew Lerner, John Watts, Shailendra Upadhyay, Christian Canales, Marissa Schmidt, Jonathan Forest, 5 February 2025.
About Cato Networks
Cato Networks delivers enterprise security and networking in a single cloud platform. The SASE leader creates a seamless and elegant customer experience that effortlessly enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. With Cato, organizations replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack.
Want to learn why thousands of organizations secure their future with Cato? Visit us at www.catonetworks.com.
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