We have had a great experience with deploying our SaaS edge network, and they have been there right along with us all way.” -A senior cloud infrastructure architect for an IT services company, review at Gartner Peer Insights Honors “Cato is a stellar SASE provider with an extremely intelligent and decisive support team that is prompt, responsive, helpful, and. A seamless integration with full SASE solutions.Global private internet backbone with built-in acceleration to deliver faster speeds than generic internet connections.Reduces maintenance and update workload on IT teams.

High-performance NGFW packet inspection.Incorporates FWaaS features into its security service edge product that converges secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access service broker (CASB), data loss protection (DLP), and ZTNA into a single software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.Headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Cato Networks focuses on cloud-first network architecture and makes a claim to be the world’s first SASE platform. Only a few vendors, such as Cloudflare, offer a stand-alone FWaaS service, and several of them don’t even use their own technology instead, they deploy the Palo Alto solution as a service. Vendors in the FWaaS market tend to provide their solution as a feature within other products such as secure service edge (SSE) from Cato Networks, zero-trust network architecture (ZTNA) from Perimeter 81 or Zscaler, or secure access service edge (SASE) solutions offered by Cisco or Palo Alto.

Using a centrally-managed FWaaS solution permits an organization to deploy consistent protection in a scalable and consistent manner to geographically dispersed users, cloud applications, and local network resources. Firewall as a service (FWaaS) promises to extend the capabilities of next-generation firewall (NGFW) and unified threat management (UTM) solutions across a modern IT environment.

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