Being a CISO is a balancing act: ensuring the security of the organization without compromising the productivity of its users. This requires consideration of multiple factors 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 can leverage Cato at different touchpoints in their SASE and SSE transformation journeys. It shows three major things CISOs can achieve: visibility, immediate threat protection and data sovereignty. Read on and find out how it’s done. Because Cato is easy to deploy, adopt, and manage, you can quickly benefit from these capabilities.
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Achievement #1: Comprehensive Visibility
Use Cato’s zero-touch edge SD-WAN devices or IPSEC tunnels to quickly log into websites. At the same time, remote users can easily download the Cato client and log in by themselves.
Now, as traffic flows through the Cato SASE cloud, CISOs have complete visibility into security activities and network and connection events for all users and locations. Armed with this information, research and SOC teams can understand the context for protection and prevention activities.
View information in the Cato Management app. It allows easy filtering for easy investigation and incident and outage correlation, just like SIEM.
For broader environmental context, cloud application dashboards provide the overall picture. This can identify shadow IT, for example.
To zoom in on applications, the App Catalog displays application profile assessments and risk scores to enable informed decisions when setting employee usage policies.
For a detailed view of usage, App Analytics shows app usage trends across users, sites, and departments. This allows for the design and execution of policies such as zero trust access.
Finally, application analytics supports reporting to upper management and auditing and provides a continuous view of usage, threats and risks.
Achievement #2: Consistent, immediate threat defense
Visibility also brings threat prevention. IPS, anti-malware and next-generation anti-malware capabilities are part of Cato SSE 360, a one-time run with the security engine enabled by default. This ensures consistent security and inspection.
In addition, to further ensure and enhance security, the capabilities provided by Cato’s cloud-native architecture are enhanced through daily security updates. For example, Cato’s customers were all protected from the Log4j vulnerability in just 24 hours.
To provide CISOs with visibility into threat activity and the ability to modify policies, the Cato Threat Dashboard displays top actors, hosts, threat types and threat source countries. In addition, IPS-based geographical restriction policies can also be implemented.
For example, the threat dashboard can be easily filtered to look for specific threats or incidents.
Cato also provides the MITER ATT&CK dashboard and provides 24×7 MDR services, provided by Cato’s SOC.
Achievement #3: Data Sovereignty
Cato makes it easy for organizations to 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 prevents risky data uploads or downloads.
The DLP dashboard allows tracking policies and filtering them. This allows you to fine-tune your rules to meet consumer needs while protecting your organization.
a secure future
Cato provides instant visibility, tightly coupled protection and minimal configuration to ensure your policies are enforced consistently and all your users and locations are protected against the latest threats.
CISOs who adopt Cato SASE or SSE 360 can anticipate future growth. With deployment, supply chain constraints and onboarding are no longer barriers, and there are no limits to the security capabilities that can be implemented.
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