Chief Digital Officer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
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2024-06-11T13:34:00Z
Jun 11, 2024
It could expand its reach into other sectors like professional services and finance, requiring more specialized tools beyond Cato's current offerings. This includes better integration with third-party providers for more sophisticated tools such as intrusion prevention systems, anti-malware, and data loss prevention. Additionally, enhancing network speed and optimizing last-mile connectivity for managed service providers like us would be beneficial.
Cato SASE Cloud Platform was built from the ground up as a SASE solution, whereas the competitor attempted to purchase components to qualify as a SASE solution. The challenge is that customers are locked into long-term contracts with other vendors and may hesitate to change to Cato. However, Cato's solution is modular. You don't have to buy the whole package; instead, you can start with some of the functionality and then expand it as you see fit, based on its value and as your other contracts expire.
Central Domain Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Top 20
2023-09-05T08:09:07Z
Sep 5, 2023
I don't find any weaknesses in the solution. I am very satisfied with the service from Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks needs to promote its product globally. I am located in South Korea, and I can say that most people here have no idea about Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks should promote its network services in various countries.
Adapting the solution for tier-one businesses with complicated environments and pre-existing technologies like VPN is challenging. They should improve this particular area. Also, they should include a web application firewall feature.
ICT Business Solutions Consultant at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
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2023-03-09T22:01:32Z
Mar 9, 2023
Modifying or incorporating Cato Network to work with a third-party platform, such as Microsoft, or other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings would be beneficial. Having more integration partners would help the users implement the solution.
I haven't seen any issues so far. I might need to do another implementation and work on it longer before noting any flaws. They're not English. If they were English, I'd give them an overall rating of ten out of ten. There's no principal in Malaysia, only a distributor.
A little tweaking or improvement of the UI in terms of logging when troubleshooting would be an improvement because it's very detailed. Extra plugs via API would be a welcome feature, as the solution is a closed loop. Readily available external integration points would make our job easier for customers looking to integrate monitoring tools.
IT Operations Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
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2021-01-30T18:13:38Z
Jan 30, 2021
The price could be better. Because of the price, we are considering moving to Cisco Meraki. It's our understanding that we could accomplish the same thing for less money.
Its functionality is a bit limited in some areas as compared to a Cisco solution. It is not as granular. It doesn't have the manageability, feature set, and capabilities of a larger or an enterprise-level solution. It just needs a more robust feature set and granularity.
I would like to see better integration with identity providers. Right now, they have Azure and they have Okta. For directory synchronization they use LDAP, and it would be better if they moved away from this. My understanding is that they are already working on removing LDAP completely and using web-based authentication for the VPN users and other users. This is not something that is critical for me. I just set up the main services in Azure and use that. This is okay because we don't have a lot of remote users, perhaps 10 or 20 at the maximum, with VPN access. This may change in the future.
Cato Networks is a leading SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform, combining SD-WAN and network security to obtain a cloud-native service. Cato Networks optimizes and secures application access for users and identities. The platform delivers a next-generation secure networking architecture that minimizes legacy IT infrastructures’ complexity, costs, and risks. The goal of Cato Suite is to connect any user to any application securely and optimally.
Cato Suite runs on a private global...
It could expand its reach into other sectors like professional services and finance, requiring more specialized tools beyond Cato's current offerings. This includes better integration with third-party providers for more sophisticated tools such as intrusion prevention systems, anti-malware, and data loss prevention. Additionally, enhancing network speed and optimizing last-mile connectivity for managed service providers like us would be beneficial.
Cato SASE Cloud Platform was built from the ground up as a SASE solution, whereas the competitor attempted to purchase components to qualify as a SASE solution. The challenge is that customers are locked into long-term contracts with other vendors and may hesitate to change to Cato. However, Cato's solution is modular. You don't have to buy the whole package; instead, you can start with some of the functionality and then expand it as you see fit, based on its value and as your other contracts expire.
The tool needs to be more granular. Its reports are not very in-depth.
The solution is not cheap. The security could be improved further.
I don't find any weaknesses in the solution. I am very satisfied with the service from Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks needs to promote its product globally. I am located in South Korea, and I can say that most people here have no idea about Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks should promote its network services in various countries.
The product must evolve into the endpoint domain.
Adapting the solution for tier-one businesses with complicated environments and pre-existing technologies like VPN is challenging. They should improve this particular area. Also, they should include a web application firewall feature.
Modifying or incorporating Cato Network to work with a third-party platform, such as Microsoft, or other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings would be beneficial. Having more integration partners would help the users implement the solution.
I haven't seen any issues so far. I might need to do another implementation and work on it longer before noting any flaws. They're not English. If they were English, I'd give them an overall rating of ten out of ten. There's no principal in Malaysia, only a distributor.
A little tweaking or improvement of the UI in terms of logging when troubleshooting would be an improvement because it's very detailed. Extra plugs via API would be a welcome feature, as the solution is a closed loop. Readily available external integration points would make our job easier for customers looking to integrate monitoring tools.
The product could provide more advanced features for networking.
Cato Networks could improve their intrusion detection. There is not a lot in place.
Web application firewalling (WAF) is a feature we would like to have in this solution.
Cato Networks security could be better.
We would like the product to continue to improve its security.
The price could be better. Because of the price, we are considering moving to Cisco Meraki. It's our understanding that we could accomplish the same thing for less money.
Its functionality is a bit limited in some areas as compared to a Cisco solution. It is not as granular. It doesn't have the manageability, feature set, and capabilities of a larger or an enterprise-level solution. It just needs a more robust feature set and granularity.
I would like to see better integration with identity providers. Right now, they have Azure and they have Okta. For directory synchronization they use LDAP, and it would be better if they moved away from this. My understanding is that they are already working on removing LDAP completely and using web-based authentication for the VPN users and other users. This is not something that is critical for me. I just set up the main services in Azure and use that. This is okay because we don't have a lot of remote users, perhaps 10 or 20 at the maximum, with VPN access. This may change in the future.
They can't do one-to-one NAT (Network Address Translation) in AP (their access point), and that is something that Palo Alto can do.