Cato Networks Suite 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Cato Networks Suite

4.7

(42)

Pricing

Starting at $1.00 per year

About Cato Networks Suite

Cato Networks Suite automatically connects data centers, networks, assets, userbase, cloud application and other assets across the organizations on a unified and secure network. It enables businesses to manage traffic optimization and routing for wide area networks (WAN) and cloud traffic to ensure maximum uptime.

Cato Networks Suite allows enterprises to share and route data using a converged network of point of presence (PoP) access points to improve data access speed. The platform offers an integrated stack of security applications, which includes firewalls, secure web gateway with URL filtering (SWG), anti-malware protection, IPS-as-a-service (IPS) and managed threat detection and response (MDR) system. Additionally, administrators can track usage of various applications, network topology/ activities and trends.

Cato Networks Suite lets managers enable or disable connectivity between sites, restrict or allow specific applications and monitor security events. Pricing details are available on request and support is extended via email and an online portal.

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Cato Networks Suite Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1.00

per user, per year

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Cato Networks Suite Features

Popular features found in IT Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Incident Management
Issue Auditing
License Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Remote Access/Control
Server Monitoring
Ticket Management
More features of Cato Networks Suite
Activity Monitoring
Alerts/Notifications
Anti Virus
API
Cloud Application Security
Configuration Management
Dashboard
Firewalls
Intrusion Detection System
IT Asset Management
IT Reporting
Real-Time Monitoring
Remote Monitoring & Management
Reporting/Analytics
Security Tools
Third-Party Integrations
Threat Intelligence
Threat Response
VPN

Cato Networks Suite Integrations

Azure Blob Storage

Jira

Datadog

Axonius

Zenoss

Sumo Logic

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Cato Networks Suite User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

74%

24%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Ahmed A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

CATO SASE

Perfect product with enhanced offering and many new features in no time

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Unified console for all SASE components

Cons:

lack of complete security for BYOD users only monitoring through API currently

Emiliano T.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

The definitive SASE

We use Cato for routing and QoS over several sites and cloud datacenters, and the overall experience is great. We don't use instead security services, so I can't express myself for that. The product is inexpensive compared to MPLS or competitors, so it defintely worth the investment. Highly recommended.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cato offers a complete SASE suite that you can bring up really in a few hours. By choosing to connect your sites with the hardware appliance (Cato socket) you can have them online by simply connect the WAN port to the Internet. Alternatively, you can connect your exisiting infrastructure using IPSec or, in case of cloud subscriptions, using the virtual version of the socket. All the traffic and security rules can be defined using the cloud console, same thing for the network ranges to connect through the cloud router. Eveything is super-simple and super fast, leaving all the complexity of a global SD-WAN behind the curtain. Support team is available for any need and very fast in answers.

Cons:

QoS rules are applied at the Cato PoP, sometimes we had slight issues over the last-mile where the traffic shaper failed to avoid line congestion. Especially the "Limit only when the line is congested" feature resulted ineffective in those cases.

Reasons for choosing Cato Networks Suite

Ease of use was the main driver. As icing on the cake, the required budget for the implementation turned out to be much less that competition.

David K.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Beware Bandwidth Limitations

Good and responsive, easy to use, but, again, beware bandwidth limitations as set in the licensing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ability to see what devices are accessing what services. Bandwidth management.

Cons:

Limited bandwidth allowance for the money.

Reasons for choosing Cato Networks Suite

Salesman.

Jon D.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

CATO SASE is very good

Some of the benefits I noticed migrating from Cisco firewalls / IPS / VPN and Velo SD-WAN to CATO SASE: - My connection to Azure is no longer a somewhat buggy Cisco ASA to Azure, site-to-site VPN, and the remote access VPN users no longer have to tunnel through the main datacenter to get to Azure. Instead with CATO, you can stand up a set of CATO virtual appliances in Azure. The virtual appliances connect out to the CATO cloud, your datacenter, offices and VPN users connect out to the CATO cloud, and all the things talk (if your WAN firewall rules allow). If you need a way to connect into Azure, this is a nice setup. - In the Cisco world, updating a firewall meant looking through several firmware versions, reading the release notes to make sure the firmware is compatible with the IPS and the VPN clients and the ASDM. The process always seemed overly complicated, especially when these systems are mission critical and outage windows are small. With CATO, firmware updates, IPS updates, SSL certs updates, VPN client updates are all done automatically. - The tech support so far has been good to work with. I always seem to have suggestions with any new security product and CATO has been receptive to them.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I came to CATO from the Cisco world. I had 20+ years managing Cisco Firewalls/IPS/VPN/etc and one thing I required in a new solution was customization. The ability to fine tune security products to fit the specifics of different environments is critical in my opinion. CATO does require time to learn the system to get the most out of it, but it's no more difficult than Cisco firewalls.

Cons:

I'm very happy with CATO. One thing I would like to see in the future is the ability to write custom IPS rules.

Gerry W.

Verified reviewer

Construction

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Cato Networks Simply Removed All Concerns we used to have about Network connectivity and reliability

This has been one of the very best technology decisions we have ever made. After living with Cato Networks for a few years I can’t imagine switching to another provider

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Deployment was quick and easy. After that we basically ignore it because it just works, all of the time. Problems and outages don’t happen any more. When we want to make a change we can do it quickly and easily and expert support is available 24x7 when we are doing something new and need some help

Cons:

There is very little to complain about and nothing major at all.

Reasons for choosing Cato Networks Suite

All of these competitors did less for higher cost and were nowhere as capable or easy to use.

leonard c.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Ulbrich's cato

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Dashboard, the fluidity of navigating to where you want, the management piece of it, the help section but its mostly self explained to get to where you want to get to as long as you have some basic understanding. Some onboard training helps out as we had and once you use it you are pretty much up and running or use the help section

Cons:

Nothing really, it can be intimidating when you 1st see it but its really not. I suggest taking the time to really click through all the options and visualize how the options can protect your network

Reasons for choosing Cato Networks Suite

vendor relationship suggested it as we were looking to replace our mpls circuit

Chris B.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Cato's SASE offering is a top notch SDWAN/Security/Remote Access Solution-

Looking to combine SDWAN with a high quality network security solution, that has easy to use secure remote access software. CATO is able to accomplish this!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like it all. To be able to consolidate critical services into to ONE, with a single pane of glass to monitor and manage from...it's a winner. ZTNA is now needed more than ever, and to be able to include that with SDWAN, is a great way to go.

Cons:

I think the user interface could be made to look a little nicer and user friendly. Also, on smaller accounts, more user friendly billing terms would be helpful. Other than that, no issues about the service offering, the quality of the install and support teams, or the pricing. It's all top notch.

Reasons for choosing Cato Networks Suite

All is one, cloud based, very reasonable price point and easy to work with install and support teams.

Matthew C.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

CATO the Pandemic Breaker

Overall experience has been great. Cato helped us get our workforce working from home when it was crucially needed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of setup, configuration, maintenance, and VPN.

Cons:

Every site requires a new bandwidth license which increases cost.

Reasons for switching to Cato Networks Suite

Business is moving towards a SAAS business plan and when the pandemic hit, setting up VPN users on the ASA was clunky and slow. Cato provided a better solution that fit with our business goals.

Jason B.

Verified reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

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