AF

Verified User in Food Production

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/14/2018

"All in one security solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

The primary reason for choosing Cato lies with the ability to function as a MPLS network, firewall as a service, VPN and IPS all in one. Our interaction with our Cato counterpart, Joel Tian who is the engineering director, gave us the assurance that SD-WAN is the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

Cato's firewall SaaS is still in their infancy stage and would require more building on to do deeper level analysis required by administrators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

Work closely with your Cato representative. They are the experts in networking and will assist you in every way possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Faced with an ever-increasing cost with MPLS, advance security threats and increase in users due to expansion, we needed a centralise solution which can ease our workload in managing our security concerns and user management but at a low cost. Our secondary objective is to find a reliable after-sales support to assist us in times of needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Joanne R.

Director, IT

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/8/2017

"Migrating from hardware to the cloud"

4/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

Being able to manage all the offices and users in single interface, and being able to turn on a new rule and have it roll out immediately has been great. It;s also a relief to not to have to wait for a reminder email or check the firewall to see if there is an update that needs to be installed; it gets done automatically while I sleep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

We have been having to contact the support team any time a new version is available so that we can get an MSI version to push out via IT tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

If you have a large firewall deployment with a centralized management, this product may not provide as much additional functionality as smaller shops who don't currently have a centralized admin portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a fairly distributed employee base where many of them are never in a corporate office. They are now full-time VPN users which means that their computers talk to the domain and now fully participate in corporate policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kevin S.

CTO

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2017

"Simple and effective security for businesses without large IT teams"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

easy to setup and manage via online portal. Flexible alerting reduces false positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

it would help if there was more direction on what to do when encountering threats (e.g., close ports x, y, z or disable access for these IP addresses on the local LAN due to spurious traffic, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

Cato has great security at an affordable cost for smaller businesses. Doesn't require an IT team; one admin can do it all. Also provides VPN solutions for mobile users (both laptop and smart phone/tablet) as well. In most cases a small company with one or two sites can be up and running in 1 day, once the small devices that encrypt the LAN traffic are received. Installation is as simple as connecting the LAN to the encryption device and then connecting it to the cable modem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Low end cable modems with poor firewalls weren't enough to keep the bad guys out. Early warning when bad traffic is leaving the network, such as the case in spambot activity from previous hack. Great security features for a low pay-as-you-go price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Leslie C.

IT Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/7/2017

"Cost Savings and better security!!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

Cato has the most amazing support team! They are always on top of anything I may need help with. I also love the fact that my network security is now mostly "hands off" from an internal staff perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

Currently, I have no dislikes related to Cato. If there was anything I could wish for, it'd be the ability to prioritize packets on our network, and I believe that is in development at Cato. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

I highly recommend this product! It's been a great service and helped us reduce overhead costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving issues with security across the board. Cato Networks has saved us a ton of money on MPLS circuits. We are now connected thru Cato, so we are able to have far less expensive Internet Pipes in all of our multiple offices. Cato has helped us reduce the security overhead, including costs of equipment and cost of staff time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jason B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/8/2018

"CATO is a game changer"

5/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

the fact we have to go via a re-seller to obtain the product and support. but i am sure that will change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed, management, monitoring of the WAN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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George M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/13/2018

"Simplify Network Management while increase features and security"

5/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

Cato's ability to easily connect multiple sites and allow communication as one network, while having one pane of glass to manage it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

How many locations you have, mobile users you have and access to multiple forms of internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AM

Verified User in Media Production

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/7/2017

"Review by Yassine (FD)"

4/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

We're using Cato for our Headquarter, AWS and 1 IPSEC tunnel and what we like the most is the simplicity of connecting different sites and VPN users. We don't have to worry about the encryption, security or configurations. It's almost plug and play. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

I don't know if there is any dislikes in our company. One of the things that we value the most is the speed of solving problems. I know the company is just starting with this concept and thats probably the reason why Cato is still improving their service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

Easy to use, install, configure. No worries about security, configuration, testing and other things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're about to solve a common problem; expanding our company. This would mean that we have to configure network and security in the other building. Testing and reconfiguring. With Cato is very easy to expand your network and have the same security and access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Wei L.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/8/2018

"very good conecpt of the SD-WAN with security function"

4/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

1. the design and concept is very nice, centralized policy management.

2. easy to maintain and admin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

1. the WAN firewall rule cannot customize define the port number, because current ports limit is not working properly.

2. user awareness seems like need to take some time, and if user is using MacBook, seems like Cato cannot detect the user id.

3. event logs cannot see real time, need take sometimes to see

4. vpn client currently only support windows version for Azure SSO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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George G.

Principal Security Engineer

Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/8/2017

"Very promising product and services for easy-to-use Network Security and Firewall as a Service"

4/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

How easy is to configure CATO networks Firewall As A Service and its security features to be applied to the company internet infrastructure. The Management interface design is very understandable and easy to navigate. One more think to like most is the easy way to connect the various branches with each other through the CATO Networks Infrastructure using Centralized VPNs. Last but not least, it supports user-based VPN for remote access to the various company's locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

I would like to have more options on controlling the Services provided through CATO Networks and also the parameters of the Socket appliance. Moreover, we would like to be able to integrate all the logs from the service to our syslog/SIEM solution but unfortunately there is no integration with syslog to send the logs to. Moreover there should be support for more Operating Systems for the user VPN client functionality and there is no easy way to download the VPN client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

You should evaluate the product first in order to see if it really meets your business needs. This may be a very good opportunity for Businesses that need a quick and easy solution for their branches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security as a Service with Cloud-based centralized Firewall / security features that can be applied to multiple locations (branches). Also it resolves with easy way problems with site-to-site VPNs due to the ease of setup of centralized VPN topology. Moreover, the analytics section covers an overview of the security features offered by the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ryan T.

IT Director

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/7/2017

"Happy with my experience."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cato SASE Cloud?

Automatic firewall security updates, no end of life hardware notifications to buy expensive new equipment or I would no longer receive firewall updates. Ease of use, specifically with VPN's to remote sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cato SASE Cloud?

Would like to see filtering at the user or individual machine level instead of site level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cato SASE Cloud:

Seriously consider Cato if you are nearing end of life on you security appliances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cato SASE Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

The uptime between remote sites has improved greatly. Set up time adding new sites is much faster and very easy. I feel more comfortable with my security level at all of my remote sites, because I would sometimes not pay the expensive annual fee and stop receiving updates to the firewall on my old device. I also have a much better view of what is going on at all of my sites on the dashboard, which has helped more than once finding trouble with my Internet providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.