Cato Networks
Network And Security, Inspected Once
Cato runs networking and security as one cloud service across its own global points of presence. Traffic is inspected in a single pass rather than hopping between appliances, and every site, user and device gets the same policy.
Map your sites →Every Box Adds A Hop And A Policy
Firewall, web gateway, VPN concentrator, cloud access broker. Four products, four policies, four places to be out of date.
Traffic Goes The Long Way
Backhauling remote users through a head office firewall adds delay to every cloud application they use. The architecture was built for servers that no longer live there.
Policies Diverge Quietly
A rule added at one site and not another is invisible until an audit or an incident finds it. Nobody reconciles four consoles weekly.
Hardware Has A Clock
Appliances reach end of support on the vendor's schedule, not yours, and the replacement project arrives whether or not the budget did.
Sites Move One At A Time
Nobody replaces a network in a weekend. The realistic sequence is incremental, and a vendor who says otherwise is selling.
Inventory The Boxes
List every appliance, its support date, and what it costs to renew.
Remote Users First
Secure access usually moves first. It is the least disruptive and the most felt.
One Branch
A single site proves the policy model before anything else changes.
Retire Circuits
Only once traffic is proven does anyone cancel a line or decommission a box.
What One Service Replaces
Cato is recognised by Gartner as a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms, which is a signal about the category as much as the product.
| Function | Role | Typically bought as |
|---|---|---|
| SD-WAN | Connects and steers traffic between sites | Edge appliances plus circuits |
| Firewall as a service | Policy enforcement without a box per site | A firewall at every location |
| Secure web gateway | Controls and inspects web traffic | A separate proxy or cloud filter |
| Zero trust access | Application-level access for remote staff | A VPN concentrator |
| Cloud app control and DLP | Visibility and limits on SaaS usage and data | A cloud access broker |
The gain is consistency. One rule set applies to the office, the branch, the laptop in an airport and the server in a cloud region, because they all arrive at the same service.
Price it against the total you spend today: appliances, their support, the circuits between sites, and the hours spent reconciling consoles. That sum is the real comparison.
Who This Is Built For
Several Sites, Many Remote Staff
Organizations with multiple locations, private circuits they resent paying for, and a workforce that is no longer in the building. The more sites, the stronger the case.
One Office, Twenty Staff
A single-site business is buying a global architecture it will not use. A capable firewall and a DNS filter will serve better and cost far less.
This Is A Contract, Not A Purchase
You are moving your network onto someone else's service. Ask about term length, exit, where traffic is inspected, and what happens to your circuits if you leave.
Count The Sites And The Renewal Dates
A list of every network appliance, its support expiry and its renewal cost tells you within an hour whether this conversation is worth having now or in two years.
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