Cato Networks launches agentic threat prevention

Cato Networks has expanded the AI capabilities of its cloud-based secure access service edge (SASE) platform with Agentic Threat Prevention.

The short version

• This new service uses AI agents to predict how attackers are likely to move through an enterprise environment and automatically deploy protections before an attack can progress.
• The capability combines network and security telemetry from across the Cato platform to build customer-specific attack models, correlate unrelated events, and enforce preventive controls globally through the company’s SASE platform.
• “Cato Agentic Threat Prevention starts from the premise that preventing AI-assisted attacks requires more than isolated alerts,” said Brian Anderson , global field CTO at Cato Networks, in an interview with Network World .

What happened

Cato SASE Cloud Platform runs on a private global backbone of more than 85 points of presence (PoP) connected via multiple SLA-backed network providers. The PoPs software continuously monitors the providers for latency, packet loss, and jitter to determine in real-time the best route for every packet.

Why it matters

Cato applies optimization and acceleration to all traffic going through the backbone to enhance application performance and the user experience.

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