Cato Networks

CATO Networks has been instrumental in helping businesses manage and control remote networks, especially during pandemics. With its strong VPN access and network security management capabilities, users have reported significant improvement in their network connectivity to cloud services like Azure. This has eliminated the need for a tunnel through the primary data center to access Azure, thereby improving speed and performance.

Users have also found CATO's auto-updating feature for firmware, IPS updates, SSL certs updates, and VPN client updates to be a relief. Previously, this process was complicated with Cisco firewalls, but CATO has streamlined it significantly. The product has also helped users consolidate all their remote sites into a single logical network with ease of management and connectivity. By doing so, CATO has not only improved performance and speed but also reduced the security overhead.

Moreover, CATO's Secure SD-WAN that includes low latency backbone has replaced public WAN and improved intranet speed and ping results. Users can become multi-homed easily and expand their network while maintaining security. They have also reported that VPN access is more straightforward and logical with CATO than with other systems. Furthermore, CATO helps users connect from any place to data centers all over the world and speeds up the network to China while providing secure connectivity between sites on a single dashboard. Finally, by moving traffic management farther away from their internal network as SASE solution provider, CATO decreases the attack surface for businesses and provides excellent virus and firewall protection along with managed firewall, IDS, and anti-malware.