Cato Networks provides a cloud-native, single-vendor SASE platform that converges enterprise networking, security, and access into one global service. The company replaces appliance-heavy WAN and security stacks with a unified architecture built around a global private backbone, single-pass inspection, one policy engine, and centralized management. Its platform is designed to connect users, sites, applications, and cloud resources while simplifying operations and enforcing policy consistently across the enterprise.
Cato Networks has expanded that core platform with AI security and AI-accelerated infrastructure. Recent additions such as Cato AI Security and Cato Neural Edge extend governance, runtime protection, and real-time inspection for AI use, applications, and agents. The broader portfolio also covers next-generation networking, SSE, zero trust access, digital experience monitoring, and managed services for organizations modernizing branch, remote, and cloud connectivity.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Cato Networks delivers a unified operating model for secure connectivity, threat prevention, data protection, access control, and incident response. The platform uses shared telemetry and centralized policy administration to give IT and security teams a common view of users, sites, applications, devices, and traffic. This architecture supports consistent enforcement across WAN, internet, cloud, and private application access rather than separate policy silos.
Deployment options span physical sites, remote users, datacenters, and public cloud environments through zero-touch edge devices, virtual appliances, and cloud interconnect options. Cato Networks also supports automation and ecosystem interoperability through its API and a broad catalog of third-party integrations, including identity, SIEM, collaboration, and device-management connections. For service partners, it adds multi-tenant operations, centralized administration, and co-branding support for managed delivery models.
Products and Services
- Cato SASE Platform: Flagship cloud-native platform that converges networking, security, and access with a single policy engine, single-pass inspection, and a global private backbone.
- Cato AI Security: Unified AI governance and protection for employee AI usage, AI-enabled applications, and AI agents, including visibility, policy enforcement, and runtime defense.
- Cato Next Generation Networking: Cloud-native networking layer for secure global connectivity, segmentation, multi-cloud access, resilience, and performance optimization.
- Cato SSE 360: Security Service Edge offering that extends visibility, optimization, and control across WAN, internet, and cloud traffic with integrated threat and data protection.
- Universal ZTNA: Risk-based zero trust access to private applications using multiple access methods, including client, browser-based, and clientless options.
- Cato Neural Edge: GPU-powered enforcement layer embedded across Cato Networks’ backbone to accelerate AI inspection, threat detection, and policy enforcement at line speed.
- Cato Managed XDR: Managed detection and response service that combines machine learning with human verification to identify compromised endpoints and guide remediation.
- Cato Managed SASE: Multi-tenant managed SASE service framework for MSPs, MSSPs, GSIs, and service providers delivering co-managed or branded services.
- Cato DEM: Digital experience monitoring capability that correlates real-user and synthetic telemetry to troubleshoot user, application, and network performance.
- Cato Enterprise Browser: Browser-based access option within Universal ZTNA that secures internet, SaaS, and private application access under the same policy model.
Target Customers
Cato Networks targets organizations with distributed operations, hybrid workforces, multiple branches, and growing cloud footprints. Its platform is well suited to enterprises replacing MPLS, branch firewalls, legacy VPNs, and fragmented network and security tools with a single cloud-delivered architecture.
Customer references on its site span retail, manufacturing, transportation and travel, healthcare, financial services, professional services, education, and other multi-location enterprises. Cato Networks also addresses managed service providers, MSSPs, service providers, and systems integrators that want to build and operate managed SASE offerings on a multi-tenant platform.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Cato Networks offers Cato vSocket, the Cato SASE Platform, Cato SSE 360, and related deployment offerings through AWS Marketplace for securing AWS workloads and VPC connectivity.
- Azure Marketplace: Cato Networks Virtual Socket can be deployed from Azure Marketplace for Azure-hosted sites, and Cato Networks also supports Azure-native networking integration through Azure vWAN.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Cato Networks supports direct deployment of a GCP vSocket from Google Cloud Marketplace to connect GCP-hosted sites and workloads to the Cato SASE Platform.
Key People
- Shlomo Kramer: Co-Founder and CEO
- Tomer Wald: Chief Finance Officer
- Alon Alter: Chief Business Officer
- Eyal Heiman: Chief Technology Officer
- Ofir Agasi: Chief Product Officer
- Nick Fan: Chief Revenue Officer
- Jaime Romero: Chief Marketing Officer
- Eyal Webber-Zvik: Chief Strategy Officer
- Zehorit Mulshanski: Chief People Officer
- Aviram Katzenstein: Chief Platform Officer
- Meital Koren: Chief Legal Officer
- Yaniv Toledano: Chief Information Officer
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Employees: Approximately 1,400-1,800 employees
- Annual Revenue: $350M+ annual recurring revenue
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Aim Security
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms — Leader.
- Forrester: 2025 The Forrester Wave: Secure Access Service Edge Solutions, Q3 2025 — Strong Performer. 2023 The Forrester Wave: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023 — Leader.
