Cato Browser Extension

The Cato Browser Extension enables secure browser-based access for unmanaged and BYOD users, such as contractors, partners, and temporary workers. Delivered as part of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, it applies the same policy controls and inspection to browser traffic as the full client, supporting consistent security, performance, and compliance enforcement—without requiring additional infrastructure or operational overhead.

Cato Browser Extension Capabilities

Secure Access for Unmanaged and BYOD Devices

Unmanaged and BYOD users often must rely on cumbersome VPNs or siloed browser products for enterprise access, creating visibility gaps and compliance risks. Cato Browser Extension extends Cato ZTNA to seamlessly secure these users and their devices. Third parties, contractors, and personal devices get consistent, secure, and frictionless access to SaaS and internal apps, with security policies enforced centrally from the cloud.

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Full Stack Security at Scale for All Users

The Cato Browser Extension enforces the full Cato security stack just like client-based or site-based access. Threat prevention, data protection, and access control are enforced consistently for every session, including those from unmanaged or BYOD devices. Traffic is inspected in real time at the nearest Cato PoP, ensuring no security tradeoffs based on how users connect. Security policies are centrally managed and applied uniformly across all users and devices, delivering consistent protection everywhere.

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Operational Efficiency from a Single Platform

Embracing unmanaged devices shouldn’t mean adding complexity. The Cato Browser Extension is managed via the Cato Management Application (CMA), enabling IT teams to gain traffic visibility, enforce policies, and troubleshoot issues through one interface, with no extra products or consoles. This reduces complexity, streamlines operations, and eliminates the overhead of managing multiple products.

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Optimal User Experience

The Cato Browser Extension lets users connect securely from any standard browser—no new tools, no learning curve. Unlike VPNs, there’s no clunky login, session instability, or inconsistent performance. All user traffic is routed through Cato’s global private backbone, not the unpredictable public internet. With built-in TCP acceleration and WAN optimization, users experience fast, reliable access to SaaS and internal applications from anywhere, on any device.

Faster IT Onboarding

Onboarding unmanaged and BYOD users is faster when there’s no need to manage separate tools. The Cato Browser Extension lets users connect through their existing browser, with access controlled by central cloud-enforced policies. There’s no need to coordinate installs, distribute credentials, or troubleshoot compatibility issues. This simplifies deployment and reduces support overhead for external users.

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Zero Trust Access for Any Device – Demo

Securely extend enterprise access to contractors, partners, and BYOD users through a lightweight browser extension. No clients, no VPN overhead—just fast, consistent security everywhere.

The Strategic Benefits of a True SASE Platform

Architected from the ground up as a true cloud-native SASE platform, all Cato’s security capabilities, today and in the future, leverage the global distribution, massive scalability, advanced resiliency, autonomous life cycle management, and consistent management model of the Cato platform.

Consistent Policy Enforcement

Cato extends all security capabilities globally to deliver consistent policy enforcement everywhere and to everyone, from the largest datacenters down to a single user device.

Scalable and Resilient Protection

Cato scales to inspect multi-gig traffic streams with full TLS decryption and across all security capabilities, and can automatically recover from service component failures to ensure continuous security protection.

Autonomous Life Cycle Management

Cato ensures the SASE cloud platform maintains optimal security posture, 99.999% service availability, and low-latency security processing for all users and locations, without any customer involvement.

Single Pane of Glass

Cato provides a single pane of glass to consistently manage all security and networking capabilities including configuration, analytics, troubleshooting, and incident detection and response. Unified management model eases new capabilities adoption by IT and the business.

“We ran a breach-and-attack simulator on Cato, Infection rates and lateral movement just dropped while detection rates soared. These were key factors in trusting Cato security.”

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