Network & Infrastructure Security
Cato SASE Platform
Single-vendor, cloud-native SASE platform converging SD-WAN, ZTNA, and XDR across a global private backbone.
Cato SASE Platform Overview
The Cato SASE Platform is a single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that converges enterprise networking and security into a unified cloud-native service delivered through 85+ globally distributed Points of Presence. Its core differentiator is the Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE), which applies the full networking optimization and security stack to every packet through one inspection engine, rather than routing traffic through sequential point-product appliances. This single-pass architecture enforces identity, device posture, and data sensitivity policies across branch, cloud, remote, and mobile traffic uniformly.
Traffic from physical locations, remote users, cloud datacenters, and mobile devices enters the Cato Neural Edge backbone via Cato Socket SD-WAN appliances, the Cato Client agent, or IPSec tunnels. At each PoP, the SPACE engine applies FWaaS, SWG, IPS, Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), DLP, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Remote Browser Isolation, and DNS Security in a single pass over AES-256 encrypted tunnels. Extended Detection and Response (XDR) then correlates telemetry from network, endpoint, and cloud sources in a unified data lake, surfacing human-readable incident stories for analyst review. Named customers include Swissport, Carlsberg, Ulta Beauty, and Darling Ingredients.
The platform holds SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS Level 1, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 27701 certifications, with HIPAA attestation, GDPR compliance, and a CSA STAR self-assessment. Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms for 2024 and 2025, and recognized as Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm 2025 SASE Radar. The platform serves 4,000+ enterprise customers globally across aviation, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution nichesHides internal applications from the public internet and unauthorized users, accepting inbound connections only after the trust broker authorizes a named user and device.
Routes web application access through a remote or local isolated browser to prevent malicious content on application pages from reaching the endpoint.
Grants access to individual named applications rather than network segments, users and devices can only reach explicitly authorized applications regardless of network position.
Re-evaluates user and device trust signals throughout an active session, revoking or stepping down access when anomalous behavior is detected, not just at authentication time.
Checks endpoint health (OS patch level, EDR presence, disk encryption, certificate validity) at each access request, enforcing minimum device security standards before granting application access.
Assembles the full attack narrative around an alert (affected assets, related events, process tree, network connections, timeline), without analyst-initiated investigation steps.
Correlates security events across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and email telemetry in a unified detection engine, detecting multi-stage attacks that span domains and would appear benign in any single-domain view.
Tracks security operations KPIs such as mean time to detect, mean time to respond, alert conversion, and risk reduction through built-in dashboards and reporting.
Provides a query language and historical telemetry store for analyst-led hunting: differentiation is query expressiveness, cross-domain join capability, and data retention period.