Cato Use Cases

Cato extends global networking and security capabilities down to a single user’s laptop, smartphone, or tablet. Mobile and remote users are no longer treated like second-class citizens of your network and security infrastructure. Using a Cato Client, or clientless browser access, users dynamically connect to the closest Cato PoP, and their traffic is optimally routed over the Cato global private backbone to on-premises or cloud applications. Cato’s security-as-a-service stack protects users against threats everywhere and enforces application access control. Unlike legacy VPN, the Cato solution scales globally to support 24×7 access for the entire workforce, creating a viable business continuity plan for working from home.

Cato SASE Cloud uses a global private backbone with built-in WAN and cloud optimization to deliver an SLA-backed, predictable, and high-performance network experience everywhere. Customers who suffer from high latency and network inconsistency across their global locations use Cato to deliver a great user experience when accessing on-premises and cloud applications.

Cato seamlessly supports work-from-home for all employees, all the time. Customers rapidly connect their on-premises and cloud datacenters to Cato SASE Cloud and enable self-service provisioning of Cato Clients to all users who require work-from-home or remote access. Unlike legacy VPN and SDP products that can’t scale to support the entire business, Cato’s global and cloud-scale platform is built to optimize traffic to all applications with a global private backbone, and continuously inspect traffic for threats and access control with the converged security stack.

Cato gets your entire enterprise network connected and secured through a single cloud service. Our edge SD-WAN and Security-as-a-Service help IT teams build reliable business networks with ease. Cato helps you make the most of your Internet last mile by automatically building the WAN full mesh, enforcing QoS and path selection based on application and user awareness, optimizing access to cloud resources, making VPN users integral parts of your network, and enforcing the same enterprise-grade security on all locations, users, and applications. Cato can be managed by the IT team or a managed service provider via a single, user-friendly, web-based application.

Customers who prefer a “hands off” managed service, can use a Cato partner or sign up for specific Cato managed services. Customers can selectively choose if they want Cato to help with site deployment, monitoring last-mile links, performing all required policy configurations within the Cato Management Application, or monitoring the network for pervasive security threats. As a cloud service, Cato maintains the Cato SASE Cloud platform and all of its components, saving IT teams and MSPs the precious resources previously needed for maintaining multiple point solutions.