How Going with Cato Led to Consistent Performance and Security Worldwide The company wanted a single global solution that could connect and secure all offices and production facilities in a consistent manner. Also, the company lacked internal expertise to support this network, so an external technology partner was needed to make configuration changes and keep the network running. We had some discussions about going with a global MPLS solution, but we knew we would always end up somehow with more than one supplier and multiple points of contact because of all the countries we are in.” “We had some discussions about going with a global MPLS solution,” says the IT manager, “but we ruled out that option because even though we would theoretically get one supplier, we knew we would always end up somehow with more than one supplier and multiple points of contact because of all the countries we are in.” Cato also allowed the company to eliminate all the branch firewalls and VPN connections. Cato Cloud is an affordable MPLS alternative, connecting all branches, trusted business partners, and physical and cloud data centers with an SLA-backed, affordable global backbone. The company’s remote locations connect to the company’s systems via redundant Cato Sockets; remote users connect through the Cato client. With all WAN and Internet traffic consolidated in the cloud, Cato applies a set of security services to protect all traffic at all times. Firewall and other security rules are now centralized in Cato Cloud, so they are easy to manage and automatically updated by Cato. “It’s good to get the automated client and security updates from Cato,” says the IT manager. “We didn’t have updates from our firewall vendor—ever. Now we have everything updated centrally by Cato. This ensures we always have the latest features enabled to protect our network.” Once we began our pilot with Cato, we saw that it is much, much easier for us to get high- level support from Cato than we could ever get with our legacy 昀椀rewall provider.” Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Retail 19