Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Filter the web. Protect every user.

Cato SWG adds a layer of protection from internet threats and enforces corporate standards for website access.

Block the bad sites. Before they load.

Block malicious, compromised, phishing, and parked domains with an always-current blacklist.

One web policy. Everywhere, instantly.

Ready-to-use policies aligned to security best practices are enforced uniformly across the entire enterprise the moment you enable them.

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Today's Challenges

The open web is an open door.

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Web-borne threats

Phishing, malware delivery, and compromised sites expose users to attacks the moment a page loads.

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Policy circumvention

Users preview images and video through search engines, bypassing organizational content and compliance policies.

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Inconsistent enforcement

Web policy applied unevenly across users, locations, and devices leaves gaps — and compliance risk.

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No web visibility

Without normalized event data, security teams can't see who accessed what — or prioritize their response.

Our approach

Filter the web.
Enforce it everywhere.

Web access is everywhere, and so is web-borne risk. Cato SWG inspects and controls all internet traffic from the cloud — including encrypted sessions — enforcing one access and threat policy for every user and location without backhauling to an appliance.

Zero Trust Security (SSE) Solution Brief

Enable best-practice policies

Turn on ready-to-use policies aligned to internet security best practices — enforced uniformly across the enterprise.

Categorize and filter

Classify sites across 80+ categories and block malicious, phishing, and parked domains with an always-current blacklist.

Refine and monitor

Refine by user, location, and device; customize notifications; and retain every event for visibility and reporting.

How it works

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Capabilities

Ready-to-use, enterprise-wide

Instant protection with 80+ categories

Ready-to-use policies align with internet security best practices and enforce uniformly across the enterprise the moment they're enabled.

80+ website classification categories
Refine by user identity, location, and device posture
Choose Allow, Block, or Prompt per policy

Block web-borne threats

Defend against phishing and malware sites

Blocking malicious, compromised, phishing, and parked domains reduces user exposure to web-borne threats.

Always-current blacklist of malicious domains
Block compromised, phishing, and parked sites
Log access attempts for analysis and training

Close the search-engine loophole

Prevent policy circumvention via search

Enforce Safe Search and content restrictions so users can't bypass compliance policies through search engines.

Enforce Safe Search on popular search engines
Apply YouTube content restrictions
Enable in a few clicks for all users and locations

See it in action

Watch how Cato does it

Customer Stories

Customers love Cato

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Microsoft Defender does some web filtering, but it's limited and not as configurable or easy to use as what we can do in Cato with all the different types of filtering groups and SWG features. There's a lot more flexibility we'll have in Cato.

IT/Security LeaderEnterprise Software Company