Review Summary
See a synthesized overview of the key takeaways from verified reviews of Cato SASE Cloud.
See a synthesized overview of the key takeaways from verified reviews of Cato SASE Cloud.
Cato Networks provides a single-vendor SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform that enables threat prevention, data protection, and incident detection and response. The Cato SASE Cloud Platform allows businesses to replace legacy infrastructure with a modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded security stack. Cato’s cloud-native and global service architecture helps businesses secure and optimize their global hybrid workforces, applications, and data both on-premises and in the cloud, supporting their digital transformation efforts.
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The features we like most about CATO Networks is that it is reliable, simple to administer and flexible. First, the link jitter and latency monitoring capabilities have been extremely beneficial. The solution continuously monitors circuit health and can automatically failover when a link begins experiencing performance degradation or connectivity issues. This feature has improved uptime at our sites and allows our staff to provide excellent patient care. Second, the ease of administration and overall intuitiveness of their management portal is exceptional. For our small IT team, the management interface is straightforward and easy to navigate. This allows us to efficiently maintain and support the environment without the need for a dedicated staff or specialized training. Third, the ability to pool bandwidth across sites provides excellent flexibility. If a location requires additional bandwidth due to increased demand or business activity, CATO can dynamically accommodate those needs, helping us maintain available resources and maintain performance across the organization.
Easy to implement and offers strong built-in security features.
1) Integrated product suite with a true single pane experience 2) Continually evolving feature set where most enhancements are not for charge additions 3) Cloud based nature of offering means a single ruleset regardless of location or access method
While our overall experience with CATO Networks has been positive, there are a few areas for improvement. When troubleshooting complex networking issues, it can be hard to assess the root cause because there is no command line interface, it is all GUI. Therefore, there are limits to what our staff can do themselves vs. tasks that only CATO technical support can complete.
It takes too much time to address and resolve reported issues
The current approach to logging events relies on a Data Lake service. While you get 2M events/hr for free, you have to pay for a rate above that. So we have about 17M events/hr as we track everything, we had to buy more data blocks, an expense we were not counting on. As architected, Cato does not allow simply sending events to a SIEM, you must by Data Lake space. A minor thing we ran into was shipment of the hardware components into Brazil, which was a slow and expensive (relative to the value of the hardware shipped anyway) process for us.