Cato Networks, the leader in SASE, has made a significant expansion to its Cato SASE Cloud platform by introducing a groundbreaking extended detection and response (XDR) solution called Cato XDR. The new XDR solution utilizes the operational capabilities of the Cato SASE Cloud to address the issues associated with traditional XDR solutions, such as long deployment times, limited data quality, and inadequate investigation and response experience.
Additionally, Cato has also launched Cato EPP, the first SASE-managed endpoint protection platform (EPP/EDR). These new offerings from Cato mark a significant evolution beyond the original SASE scope that the company pioneered in 2016 and was officially defined by industry analysts in 2019. The original scope of SASE focused on threat prevention and data protection in an easy-to-manage global platform.
Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks, highlighted the significance of the expansion, stating that Cato SASE continues to be the antidote to security complexity. The addition of threat detection and response capabilities to the SASE platform represents a significant milestone for the company, allowing Cato to streamline security processes in a simple, automated, and elegant manner.
Among the early adopters of Cato XDR is Redner’s Markets, an employee-owned supermarket chain based in Reading, Pennsylvania. According to Nick Hidalgo, Vice President of IT and Infrastructure at Redner’s Markets, the Cato platform has provided better visibility, saved time on incident response, resolved application issues, and improved network performance ten-fold.
The integration of XDR and EPP into the SASE platform has been described as a game-changer for the industry by Art Nichols, CTO of Windstream Enterprise, a Cato partner. The innovative integration of these capabilities brings together advanced threat detection, response capabilities, and endpoint security within a unified, cloud-native architecture.
Cato XDR leverages the benefits of the Cato SASE Cloud platform, which was specifically built to enable enterprises to connect, secure, and manage sites, users, and cloud resources anywhere in the world. Unlike traditional point solutions and security appliances, Cato’s capabilities are always available and fully converged, providing IT teams with a unified context to understand their networks, prevent threats, and resolve problems.
Legacy XDR tools have been plagued by issues such as protracted breach identification times and limitations related to data quality. Cato XDR aims to address these limitations by providing accurate incident detection through a wide array of native sensors and extensive sensor coverage. Incident detection is further enhanced by the inclusion of Cato EPP, which protects endpoints from attack using Bitdefender’s world-leading malware prevention technology.
The introduction of Cato AI further improves incident identification and remediation processes by leveraging high-quality data to accurately rank and prioritize incidents for investigation. Remediation times are reduced as incident stories contain relevant information for in-depth investigation. Cato’s unified console provides a comprehensive view of all security policies and incident stories, simplifying incident reporting and sharing of information with other teams.
Cato’s expansion into threat detection and incident response represents a significant advancement in the SASE space, further solidifying the company’s position as a leader in cloud-native security and networking operations. The new offerings from Cato are poised to revolutionize the way enterprises protect their networks and data against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
For more information about Cato XDR and the Cato SASE platform, interested parties can visit the Cato Networks website at https://www.catonetworks.com.