We primarily use the platform for monitoring purposes. It serves as a SaaS solution integrated with SD-WAN and security functionalities.
Cato Networks Virtual Socket
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Has a user-friendly dashboard and robust security features
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The product's most valuable features include advanced firewall capabilities for robust security, a secure gateway for safe data transmission, and next-generation anti-malware for threat prevention. Additionally, the SASE framework integrates well with our operational needs, ensuring comprehensive security and compliance.
What needs improvement?
The product's technical support could be more responsive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the Cato SASE Cloud Platform for around seven months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the product stability a nine.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product accommodates varying customer requirements effectively, facilitating easy scaling as needed.
I would rate the scalability an eight.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support services need improvement.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process was straightforward, taking about one to one and a half hours. It involved minimal complexities, handled efficiently by two individuals, primarily myself.
What was our ROI?
Based on studies from Forrester, our organization has achieved a significant return on investment of approximately 246% within less than six months of deploying Cato.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The platform is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Cato's user-friendly dashboard has contributed positively to our experience, making it suitable for our current operational needs.
Integrating SD-WAN has significantly optimized our network performance by enabling path selection for optimal traffic routing, WAN optimization through protocol acceleration, and seamless traffic encryption without compromising performance.
I rate it an eight.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Offers a self-healing model and auto-mitigates threats with impressive scalability
What is our primary use case?
It's a turnkey cloud solution for comprehensive patching. The tool has three main use cases. The first one is for remote users, instead of VPNs, they can use zero-trust or SDP technology with the tool. This feature allows high scalability to the user. There are many more functionalities in Cato SASE Cloud Platform than any other traditional VPN service.
The product allows deep inspection of every session with varying security engines, including firewall-as-a-service, IPS, next-generation anti-malware, and DLP. The multiple features of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform can be used parallelly.
The second use case of the product is the security of public clouds. For instance, if you have applications running on Amazon, Azure, GCP, or OCI, Cato SASE Cloud Platform provides security for the VMs.
What is most valuable?
Cato SASE Cloud Platform's self-healing model is the most valuable feature. The solution is able to auto-detect and mitigate threats seamlessly. Whenever the solution detects malware, ransomware, or cyber attack, it will block the threat immediately between two endpoints.
The product is much better than SOC model solutions, as it's able to detect and respond immediately without waiting for manual intervention. After Cato SASE Cloud Platform has handled a threat automatically on its own, it will distribute a report informing the respective company professionals about the incident.
What needs improvement?
There should be a Web Application Firewall (WAF) feature in the product nodes. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is one of the cutting-edge solutions in cybersecurity that provides functions that are unavailable in classic models of other vendors.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cato SASE Cloud Platform for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product offers impressive scalability. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It's a cloud-based solution, so it can be easily scaled. When you use boxes from Fortinet, you will notice that when a scaling need arises because you have to accommodate one thousand users with a VPN, the entire box will need to be changed as the box was originally designed to accommodate two hundred users.
With Cato SASE Cloud Platform, the previous scenario doesn't occur due to an extensive scaling capacity.
How are customer service and support?
The product has excellent customer support. The support team is available 24/7 and they are able to respond in twenty minutes to a raised ticket. I would rate the tech support a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
About a year ago, in our organization, Fortinet Security Solutions was replaced with Cato SASE Cloud Platform.
How was the initial setup?
The product has a highly straightforward setup process. Cato SASE Cloud Platform uses a concept of zero-touch. The product utilizes SD-WAN for the network site, boxes, and end devices. As part of the deployment, the end device is placed in the on-prem data center, and all the racks, network, and cybersecurity boxes are replaced with one box, which is the SD-WAN.
Followed by the aforementioned step all the LANs from that data center will get connected to the cloud. The VMs in the public cloud will also get replaced by a virtual socket or device that will protect the public-cloud applications. Cato SASE Cloud Platform provides an overview of the enterprise cybersecurity and networking from a single console.
The deployment process of Cato SASE Cloud Platform is majorly handled by the vendor. For example, in a retail network with a hundred stories, the network user will need to send a hundred boxes, and the responsible individual of every branch will take the boxes and put them in a rack, following which all connections will be implemented. Only one professional with a knowledge of cybersecurity and networks will be required in the organization in which the product is being implemented.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing of the solution depends on the bandwidth required for different branches that will be implemented in the data centers, on-premises and public networks. The price will depend on the security functionalities availed during a contract with Cato SASE Cloud Platform.
For example, if the baseline includes the firewall and navigation filter for the users and you add DLP and CASB with the product's one-click model, you will need to pay for the bandwidth and security functionalities. While adding DLP is a single-click, instantaneous process in Cato SASE Cloud Platform, implementing DLP will take a nine-month project in a classic model.
What other advice do I have?
I would overall rate the product a nine out of ten.
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