Case Study: Security Software Company achieves rapid European office launch, improved application performance, and cost savings with Cato Networks

Security Software Company Maximizes Global R&D Productivity With Cato Cloud

Security Software Company, a global security services provider with offices across the US, Europe and APAC, faced a five‑week deadline to open a European R&D office but had no onsite IT and relied on appliance-based IPsec VPNs that were slow to deploy and caused poor application performance and fragile Internet paths. Because NAT in the shared office prevented straightforward firewall/VPN installs and MPLS would take weeks to provision, the team needed an alternative — they evaluated and selected Cato Networks’ cloud‑based SD‑WAN, Cato Cloud.

Cato Networks deployed Cato Cloud using Cato Socket appliances at sites and the Cato Client for mobile users, plus centralized management via the Cato Management Application. The result: new locations went live in minutes instead of days, end‑user application performance noticeably improved, and operations were simplified — the company saved about 15 engineering hours per month and avoided a $4,800/month MPLS circuit as well as substantial branch firewall purchases and license costs.