Zidaj leveraged Cato’s mobile security and optimization to connect small locations with just a Cato Mobile Client. Avoiding appliances at each retail location significantly simplified deployment. Without an appliance to install and maintain, deployment was quick and simple. What’s more, all too often retail locations set in malls can only gain Internet access through private IPs provided through the mall’s Internet provider. Unlike many SD-WAN solutions, the Cato Mobile Client, as well as Cato’s SD-WAN device, the Cato Socket, can operate behind a NAT. Zidaj equipped the computers at each retail store with Cato mobile clients. The mobile client sends all traffic across an encrypted tunnel automatically established to the nearest Cato point of presence (PoP). Cato Cloud currently covers all major Australian business centers from PoPs in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney. His Azure instances were connected through Cato’s agentless integration into Cato Cloud. A few clicks on the Cato Management Console and an IPsec VPN connection was established from the Cato PoPs to Microsoft Azure. Cato collocates its PoPs in the same physical datacenters as the Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) of the leading cloud datacenter providers, such as AWS and Azure. Deployment was good, and the setup was pretty simple and straightforward. The Cato sales team, Cato Support, and CyberRisk helped a lot. It went well. We selected Cato, in part, because of its super quick and easy deployment.” When Zidaj is ready, he’ll also be able to connect larger locations with Cato Sockets. Cato Sockets connect load balance traffic across multiple circuits — MPLS or Internet (DSL, Cable, LTE and more) for maximum performance and uptime. Sockets correct for packet loss and dynamically route Internet and WAN traffic across the optimum last mile to the nearest Cato PoP. The PoP’s cloud- native software inspects all traffic, even SSL/TLS traffic, applying the necessary networking and security policies. Traffic is forwarded across Cato’s global network or onto the Internet. All Cato Sockets come with Affordable High Availability (HA) built-in for inexpensive redundancy. Cato. Ready for Whatever’s Next Case Studies - Retail 11