Malware Prevention

Stop malware, known and unknown.

Cato Malware Prevention delivers a multi-layered approach.

Catch zero-days in a millisecond.

NGAM analyzes file content in real time and delivers a benign, suspicious, or malicious verdict in typically under a millisecond.

Investigate with precision.

Cato Sandbox detonates suspicious files in isolation and produces rich forensic reports.

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Today's Challenges

Malware hides to get in.

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Zero-day & polymorphic malware

Novel and shape-shifting malware slips past signature-only engines that only recognize yesterday's known threats.

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Threats hidden in encrypted traffic

More than 90% of web traffic is encrypted — without TLS inspection, enterprises are blind to the malware hiding inside it.

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Evasion via nested archives

Threat actors bury payloads in nested archives and encrypted files to bypass security engines entirely.

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Legacy appliance limits

Fixed appliance resources force trade-offs on how much traffic — and how many files — actually get scanned.

Our approach

Block known threats.
Detonate the unknown.

Known and unknown malware now hides inside encrypted traffic and evasive files. Cato applies multi-layered, AI-driven prevention and sandboxing at wire speed, inspecting every file — including inside TLS — so threats are stopped before they reach a user.

Inspect every file

Scan every file at wire speed, including inside TLS-encrypted traffic — with no appliance limits on what gets inspected.

Detect with AI + signatures

NGAM, in partnership with SentinelOne, and a continuously updated signature and heuristics database return a verdict in under a millisecond.

Detonate the unknown

Send suspicious files to Cato Sandbox for deep behavioral analysis and forensic reports with IOCs.

How it works

Malware Prevention Capabilities

NGAM + SentinelOne ML

Real-time protection from zero-day malware

Cato's NGAM detects zero-day and polymorphic malware in real time, returning a verdict of benign, suspicious, or malicious.

ML maps connections across thousands of data points
Verdict in typically under a millisecond
Built in partnership with SentinelOne

Wire-speed signatures & heuristics

Always up-to-date protection

Cato scans every file at wire speed against a signature and heuristics database that is continuously updated.

Replace anti-malware engines of legacy firewalls and UTMs
No manual infrastructure to manage
No fixed-appliance resource constraints

See it in action

Watch how Cato does it

Customer Stories

Customers love Cato

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Cato gives us secure access with encryption, Web filtering, IPS, next-gen anti-malware, and visibility of what our workers are doing, so that our clients can be confident in the quality of the connection coming into them.

Shayne GreenHead of Security Operations, CloudFactory

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