Cato Malware Prevention
Cato Malware Prevention delivers a multi-layered security approach to protect organizations against all types of malware. By leveraging Cato Next-Generation Anti-Malware (NGAM) to block both known and unknown threats, and Cato Sandbox to analyze malware behavior for deep forensic insights, Cato delivers a comprehensive defense against sophisticated attacks. This powerful combination enables security teams to contain threats, minimize impact, and investigate with precision.
Cato Malware Prevention Capabilities
Real-Time Protection from Zero-Day Malware
Cato’s NGAM detects zero-day and polymorphic malware in real-time. In partnership with SentinelOne, a machine learning algorithm maps connections between thousands of data points to return a verdict of benign, suspicious, or malicious.
Granular Policy and Simple Exception Controls
Policies are simple to manage, and administrators can define allow, and block actions based on context such as Internet or WAN, source (user, IP address, Host), application, and more. Aligning with the enterprise’s needs, exceptions can be specific or global to the entire account. With Cato, organizations can adopt a stricter security approach while maintaining the agility to meet business needs with policy changes taking effect globally in just minutes.
Complete Anti-Malware Protection With TLS Inspection
More than 90% of web traffic is encrypted and enterprises that aren’t inspecting this traffic are blind to threats hiding in it. Cato’s SASE cloud performs TLS inspection at scale, eliminating the need to size and scale legacy appliances. Inspection policies can be granularly applied, allowing organizations to inspect as much traffic as desired. Enabling TLS inspection has no impact on performance and allows Cato’s NGAM complete visibility to detect and block the most malware possible.
Protection for Nested Archives and Encrypted Files
Cato’s NGAM supports multiple file types and can scan multiple levels within nested archive files. Archive files are held until the engine confirms that the entire contents of the files are free from malware. Encrypted and password-protected files cannot be scanned but can be blocked by policy rules. These features help secure organizations by addressing one of the techniques used by threat actors to bypass security engines.
Always Up-To-Date Protection
Cato scans every file at wire speed, continuously evaluating the files against a signature and heuristics database that is continuously updated. Organizations benefit from the most up-to-date protection without the manual labor of managing the infrastructure and operational complexities of legacy solutions. Customers can replace the anti-malware engine of traditional firewalls and UTMs, ensuring that all files are evaluated against a comprehensive signature database without the constraints of fixed appliance resources.
Deep behavioral analysis of sophisticated, evasive threats.
Cato Sandbox automatically sends any suspicious or malicious files for sandbox analysis, executing it in a controlled, isolated environment. This generates rich, detailed forensic reports, including Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and attack behavior insights. Security teams can download these reports directly from the Cato Management Application (CMA) to accelerate incident response and enhance forensic investigations, improving their ability to detect, analyze, and mitigate advanced threats.
Next Generation Anti-Malware Demo Video
Cato’s Next-Generation Anti-Malware provides consistent, global protection against both known and zero-day threats, actively analyzing file content and delivering a verdict in typically under a millisecond.
Consistent Policy Enforcement
Scalable and Resilient Protection
Autonomous Life Cycle Management
Single Pane of Glass
Cato SASE Cloud Platform Powers the Digital Business
Customers use Cato to eliminate complex legacy architectures comprised of multiple security point solutions and costly network services. Cato’s unique SASE platform consistently and autonomously delivers secure and optimized application access everywhere and to everyone.
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