Cloud-native secure access at scale — SD-WAN, ZTNA, SWG, CASB, and FWaaS converged in a single platform. Enable your hybrid workforce without compromising security or performance.
What Is SASE?
Cato Networks combines networking and security into a single cloud-native platform — eliminating the complexity and cost of managing multiple point solutions across your hybrid environment.
Intelligent, policy-based traffic routing across all sites and users with automatic failover and optimised cloud app performance.
Zero Trust Network Access — verify every user and device before granting access to specific applications, not the whole network.
Secure Web Gateway inspects all outbound web traffic for threats, enforcing acceptable use policies regardless of user location.
Cloud Access Security Broker provides visibility and control over shadow IT and sanctioned cloud application usage.
Firewall-as-a-Service delivers full Layer 7 inspection and threat prevention across all traffic flows from a single cloud policy.
Secure, fast access for remote workers — replacing legacy VPN with a seamless, high-performance cloud-native alternative.
Why Cato Networks?
Legacy perimeter security was designed for a world where everyone sat in the office behind a firewall. Today's workforce is hybrid, cloud-first, and globally distributed — Cato Networks was built from the ground up for this reality.
CommuniCloud is a certified Cato Networks implementation partner. Our team designs, deploys, and manages Cato SASE environments for Australian organisations, providing ongoing optimisation and 24/7 SOC integration for complete visibility.
Get a SASE AssessmentCommon Questions
Yes. Cato SASE is designed to scale from 50 to 50,000 users. Unlike legacy SD-WAN and security solutions that require significant upfront hardware investment, Cato is subscription-based and scales with your organisation.
Cato's ZTNA module provides secure remote access that replaces VPN clients with an agent-based or agentless solution. Users get faster, more reliable access to applications with better security controls than traditional VPN, without the complexity of split-tunnelling and VPN management.
Cato has native optimisation for Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and thousands of cloud applications, routing traffic to the nearest Cato PoP for lowest latency. It provides detailed visibility into cloud app usage through its CASB module.
A basic deployment for a single site with remote users can be operational in 1–2 weeks. Multi-site deployments typically take 4–8 weeks depending on complexity. CommuniCloud manages the entire project from scoping through go-live.
Not immediately. Cato can be deployed alongside existing infrastructure and gradually replace it as hardware reaches end-of-life. Many organisations use Cato for remote access and cloud connectivity first, then migrate branch sites progressively.
Cato operates Australian data centres (Sydney and Melbourne PoPs) ensuring traffic from Australian users can be inspected domestically without leaving the country. CommuniCloud advises on data residency policies to meet your specific requirements.
CommuniCloud provides 24/7 managed Cato services including policy management, incident response, performance optimisation, and integration with our SOC. You get the technology plus an expert team ensuring it performs optimally.
Cato is subscription-based, typically priced per user per month with different tiers based on capabilities selected. This predictable opex model is often significantly cheaper than maintaining multiple security appliances plus VPN infrastructure. CommuniCloud will provide a detailed commercial comparison.
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