Being a CISO is a balancing act: ensuring the security of organizations without compromising user productivity. This requires taking multiple elements into consideration, such as cost, complexity, performance and user experience. CISOs around the world use Cato SSE 360, as part of the Cato SASE Cloud platform, to balance these factors without compromise.
This article details how CISOs are leveraging Cato at different touchpoints in their SASE and SSE transition journey. It shows the top 3 outcomes CISOs can achieve: visibility, real-time threat prevention, and data sovereignty. Read and find out how it’s done. Because Cato is easy to deploy, adopt, and manage, you’ll soon be able to benefit from these features as well.
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Objective no. 1: full visibility
You can quickly onboard sites using Cato zero-touch SD-WAN Socket edge devices or IPSEC tunnels. At the same time, remote users can easily download and onboard the Cato client themselves.
Now, with traffic flowing through Cato SASE Cloud, CISOs gain complete visibility into security activities, as well as network and connectivity events for all users and locations. With this information, research and SOC teams have context for protection and prevention efforts.
The information is displayed in the Cato Management application. It can be easily filtered, allowing for easy investigation and correlation of incidents and outages, just like a SIEM.
For broader context of your environments, the Cloud Apps Dashboard offers a holistic perspective. This allows you, for example, to identify Shadow IT.
To zoom in on applications, the App Catalog displays app profile ratings and risk scores, allowing for informed decision making when setting employee usage policies.
To get a detailed view of usage, application analytics shows application usage trends across users, sites, and departments. This allows you to design and enforce policies such as Zero Trust access.
Finally, application analytics supports reporting to upper management and control and provides an ongoing view of usage, threats and risks.
Objective no. 2: Consistent real-time threat prevention
With visibility also comes threat prevention. The IPS, Anti-Malware and Next Generation Anti-Malware features, which are part of Cato SSE 360, operate in a single pass and the security engines are enabled by default. This ensures constant safety and inspection.
Additionally, to further ensure and improve security, the features provided by Cato’s cloud-native architecture are strengthened with daily security updates. For example, Cato customers were all protected from the Log4j vulnerability in just over 24 hours.
To provide CISOs with an understanding of threat activity and the ability to adjust policies, the Cato Threat Dashboard displays top users, hosts, threat types, and threat countries of origin. Additionally, IPS-based geo-restriction policies can be implemented.
The threat dashboard can be easily filtered, for example, by specific threats or events.
Cato also provides a MITER ATT&CK dashboard and offers 24/7 MDR service powered by Cato’s SOC.
Objective #3: data sovereignty
Cato allows organizations to easily add DLP and CASB capabilities to protect their traffic. DLP protects sensitive information, such as source code, PCI data, or PII data. CASB controls how users interact with SaaS applications. This protects against uploading or downloading risky data.
The DLP dashboard allows you to track policies and filter them. This allows you to fine-tune rules to meet user needs while protecting organizations.
The future of security
Cato offers instant visibility, consistent protection, and minimal configuration, ensuring your policies are consistently enforced and all your users and locations are protected from the latest threats.
CISOs who adopt Cato SASE or SSE 360 can expect future growth. With implementation, supply chain constraints and onboarding are no longer a barrier and there are no limits to the security capabilities that can be achieved.
Read the full guide for CISOs here.