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Security as a Service for Today’s Enterprises

With Cato’s security as a service, you gain the benefit of consistent security across your entire network while offloading the day-to-day management to Cato. No more capacity planning, software upgrades, operational complexities, or hidden costs. At the same time, you maintain granular control of all your security policies, with easy configuration through Cato’s centralized management portal. The network was designed with security in mind. All PoPs are interconnected using fully-meshed, encrypted tunnels. Customers connect to Cato through encrypted tunnels, established by Cato Socket (a zero-touch appliance deployed at physical locations), or through IPsec tunnels from existing security appliances.

Access Control Across your Network

Cato provides enterprises with access control capabilities through the next-generation firewall (NGFW) and secure web gateway (SWG). NGFW provides full application awareness with the ability to inspect the payload of packet data and distinguish between different types of web traffic. Cato’s SWG allows customers to monitor, control and block access to websites based on predefined and customizable categories.

Next-Generation Firewall

The Cato NGFW inspects both WAN and Internet traffic. It can enforce granular rules based on network entities, time restrictions, and type of traffic. The Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine classifies the relevant context, such as application or services, as early as the first packet and without having to decrypt the payload. Cato provides a full list of signatures and parsers to identify common applications. In addition, custom application definitions identify account-specific applications by port, IP address, or domain.

Secure Web Gateway

Cato provides an SWG to give you granular control over your Internet-bound traffic, enabling enforcement of corporate policies and preventing downloads of unwanted or malicious software. They provide predefined policies for dozens of different URL categories and support custom rules, enhancing the granularity of web access control. As with the rest of the service, the SWG is easily managed through Cato’s management portal and covered by a full audit trail.

Advanced Threat Prevention

As part of Cato’s Advanced Threat Protection, Cato offers anti-malware protection and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) capabilities. Both services inspect WAN and Internet traffic. Additionally, Cato PoPs inspect TLS-encrypted traffic in the Cato Cloud, so there are no scaling constraints or additional latency.

Anti-Malware

Malware Detection and Prevention leverages multi-layered and tightly integrated anti-malware engines. First, a signature and heuristics-based inspection engine, which is kept up-to-date at all times based on global threat intelligence databases, scan files in transit to ensure effective protection against known malware.

IPS Protection Engine

Cato delivers a fully managed and adaptive cloud-based IPS service. Cato Research Labs updates, tunes, and maintains context-aware heuristics, both those developed in-house (based on big-data collection and analysis of customers’ traffic) and those originating from external security feeds. This dramatically reduces the risk of false positives compared to other IPSs that lack an experienced SOC behind them. Cato Cloud scales to support the compute requirements of the IPS rules, so customers don’t have to balance protection and performance to avoid unplanned upgrades as processing load exceeds available capacity.

Managed Threat Detection and Response to Reduce Dwell Time

Cato’s Managed Threat Detection and Response Service (MDR) enables enterprises to offload the resource-intensive and skill-dependent process of detecting compromised endpoints to the Cato SOC team. Cato seamlessly applies a full MDR service to customer networks. They automatically collect and analyze all network flows, verify suspicious activity, and notify customers of compromised endpoints. This is the power of networking and security convergence to simplify network protection for enterprises of all sizes.