A stable and easy-to-deploy solution that provides excellent visibility control and security
What is our primary use case?
We are a reseller and partner. We are not the user of the system.
What is most valuable?
The product provides a single platform and a convergence of the various technologies from a WAN perspective. The visibility control and security aspects are amazing. It is a very robust platform. It's evolving slowly enough that what it brings out is always quick to market, but it takes the right time to get the right solution. There’s been a big move forward in DLP and CASB.
What needs improvement?
The product must evolve into the endpoint domain.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the solution for nine years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is brilliant. I rate the ease of setup a ten out of ten. The time taken for deployment depends on the type of customer. The mean time to value is very short. It is quick.
What about the implementation team?
The number of people required for the deployment depends on whether the deployment is done within the country or globally.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate the pricing a seven out of ten on a scale where one is expensive, and ten is cheap.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We looked through Zscaler back in the day. We also considered firewall vendors like Palo Alto and Fortinet. We chose Cato because it had a single vendor.
What other advice do I have?
We don't have any clients. We're a new partner. People wanting to use the solution must forget about their current architecture and take a step back. Cato Networks is one of the best platforms that I work with. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Cato SD WAN
What do you like best about the product?
I love the Cato SD-WAN. It is easy to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike about Cato, it is perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to control and manage our remote network in the situation of pandemics.
Great service for small-to-medium sized distributed teams
What do you like best about the product?
Cato Networks has filled some of our networking needs allowing our infrastructure team to worry about more important problems, and their support has been exceptional.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've experienced some intermittent issues with our dedicated endpoint, but their support is very responsive when we raise issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our team is globally distributed. Cato allows to make internal services available to our team members without having to manage our own VPN infrastructure.
Simplify Network Management while increase features and security
What do you like best about the product?
Cato's ability to easily connect multiple sites and allow communication as one network, while having one pane of glass to manage it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Training on the product has been all self-taught and experienced though resolution though issues with support. I would prefer an overview as well as an in-depth training course on their products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finding a cost-effective way to take advantage of any internet connection so not to limit where we expand to physically. This also allowed us to easily become multi-homed due to the nature of how easy it was to work with any internet connection to become a secure part of our network.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
How many locations you have, mobile users you have and access to multiple forms of internet.
great support team!
What do you like best about the product?
The support team is extremely knowledgeable and ready to help!
What do you dislike about the product?
with anything that has a software component, there will be bugs. however their team fixes them quickly once found.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are using cato as another layer of security for our network as well as a vpn.
CATO is a game changer
What do you like best about the product?
the fact its cloud based and has very little onsite hardware. they also have very useful features to enable IT to support the users and the business.
What do you dislike about the product?
the fact we have to go via a re-seller to obtain the product and support. but i am sure that will change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed, management, monitoring of the WAN
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider CATO and compare before using any WAN or cloud based security, especially if there are services or hardware needed to implement the solution. CATO allows your business to be flexible in its approach to connectivity.
Network Security as a Service in its Prime
What do you like best about the product?
Cato offers connectivity to Intranet services between different branches while securing those connections. Cato's expertise in the security market (via its founders) is something remarkable and assuring of an accurate and efficient security system. Several features can be added such as Extrusion Prevention, URL inspection and bot detection. Simply impressive!
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to improve here besides adding more POPs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connectivity and security between all branches.
Cato is great!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy management of endpoints, automated emails, and easy setup and use for end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI could be a little more intuitive, but other than that Cato is great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This has completely reinvented our VPN access, making it easier and more logical for all involved.
No more monopolies
What do you like best about the product?
Cato is disrupting a 25 year old monopolized MPLS market and presenting the world with today's technology capabilities and competencies that are equal in service together with 5 in 1 cloud security. It's so simple is worth billions back to the client.
What do you dislike about the product?
That this wasnt available 5 years ago and therefore unable to muscle in the competition.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To provide value added cyber security services together with a connectivity MSSP proposition. Control has been regained for the channel.
Excellent VPN Product
What do you like best about the product?
We like the ease of use and protection provided by the mobile VPN client.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I used the product on a recent trip, it seemed to drain the battery on my phone too quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protected communications