# Cato Networks Suite Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Cato Networks Suite the right IT Management solution for you? Explore 42 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/173809/Cato-Networks/reviews --- Cato Networks Suite 4.7 (42) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/173809/Cato-Networks/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Cato Networks Suite Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.5 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews MB Muhammad B Sr. IT ManagerBiotechnology, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The integration with our network straight forward.“ June 22, 2023 IM Ilario M ICT Infrastructure ManagerMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “overall price, socket HW not always performing as expected“ February 16, 2025 ET Emiliano T ICT SpecialistMachinery, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Eveything is super-simple and super fast, leaving all the complexity of a global SD-WAN behind the curtain.“ July 15, 2021 MC Matthew C Systems AdministratorLegal Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Every site requires a new bandwidth license which increases cost.“ July 20, 2021 CB Chris B agentTelecommunications, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Looking to combine SDWAN with a high quality network security solution, that has easy to use secure remote access software. “ July 15, 2021 lc leonard c Network AdministratorMachinery, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Some onboard training helps out as we had and once you use it you are pretty much up and running or use the help section“ July 27, 2021 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 42 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Sr. IT Service Delivery Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CATO -A networking Solution that works" July 15, 2021 4.0 I would recommend CATO to anyone looking for a networking solution out there. It's quite affordable and actually works. It makes the whole experience of using a VPN memorable. Pros 1\. Security - CATO VPN guarantees a secure connection when accessing client platforms 2. Single Sign On Feature saves a lot of login time (available for Windows, Google, etc) 3. CATO VPN is really fast and reliable compared to its competitors out there 4. They have an awesome support team. Always ready for feature requests. Cons 1\. The GUI can feel a bit cluttered. It's hard for a beginner to find what they are looking for 2. The Bulk/Mass user update feature is still missing 3. The CATO Client can keep on disconnecting sometimes Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite 1\. Networking Solution 2. Security 3. Cost 4. User support Review Source EG Elvison G. Busines Architecture Supervisor Food & Beverages Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cato Networks Suite" April 10, 2025 5.0 Pros At the company I work for, we've used Cato Networks Suite to migrate from MPLS to SD-WAN, optimize global connectivity, improve secure access to SaaS applications, and enable secure hybrid work. This has allowed us to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase security in the network infrastructure. This is what I like about this tool. Cons During the implementation of Cato Networks Suite, you may experience conflicts with third-party VPNs, antivirus software blocks, firewall issues, and installation errors. However, these issues can be resolved by adjusting the configuration and following the best practices recommended by Cato Networks. Switched from [GlobalProtect](https://www.capterra.com/p/234123/GlobalProtect/) Some of the reasons are: improving security, optimizing global connectivity performance, and simplifying network and security management from a single panel. Review Source mB michael B. owner Computer Networking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "beware of cancelation policy they do not allow this to be done even if its their fault" July 23, 2021 1.0 i was not happy with the service. their NOC always has a downtime (for philippines, not sure with other countries) at least once a month there is some sort of network issue when connecting with their NOC aside from the weekly downtime mentioned for maintenance issues. this is a SD wan product, so if thier side is down then you will be down as well even if you have multiple internet connections. defeats the purpose of redundancy. though you can switch from one of their NOCs to another NOC, the switching itself is a downtime and has to be manually done. when i decided to cancel my 5 year contract because of said issues, they are insisting i pay in full for the 3 years of service despite the fact that they violated SLA due to numerous downtimes etc. not happy at all and im still stuck now trying to figure out what to do with this pending bill they insist i should pay despite me cancelling. Pros easy deployment and simple admin panel to learn. Cons you will have a weekly maintenance downtime of about 15 mins. they do update the software which is a good thing, but you will be down for that said period weekly which is a pain for operations who require 24/7. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite i thought they were a better solution depsite the higher price, turns out i made a huge mistake in engaging wtih this comapny. Review Source MB Muhammad B. Sr. IT Manager Biotechnology Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A complete and proven SASE solution." June 22, 2023 4.0 Pros The integration with our network straight forward.Dashboard provides a clear picture of top-level events. Cons Support lacks the enthusiasm and can be improved. Switched from [Sonicwall Network Security Manager](https://www.capterra.com/p/219070/Sonicwall-Network-Security-Manager/) More effective due to its SD-WAN and SASE approach. Review Source CM Casey M. IT Service Delivery Manager Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great for admins, Learning Curve for end users" July 23, 2021 5.0 Overall the experience with Cato has been great. Our prior VPN and firewall solution were hosted on-perm and back-hauling some traffic while split tunneling other was a consent game of cat & mouse. It has also solved a bunch of communication issues we had with our Site2Stie VPN. Converting them to Cato Nodes really improved performance. Pros The solution was easy to install, configure, and deploy, from the administrators perspective. The ability to have it auto start when a user logs in to their endpoint has saved countless hours on my service desk troubleshooting the issues that arise when an endpoint is off the domain for too long. Cons Currently the feature that gives me the most grief is the re-authentication sequence for the VPN client. If a user is actively using their system and the client goes to re-authenticate it opens a the SSO portal in a background tab in their browser, and then users are not sure how to proceed and our service desk gets calls. It would be nice if either the SSO portal was opened in the foreground, or there was "captive portal" behavior where if they tried to open up another site, they would get redirected to the SSO portal. Really it comes down to user training, but its not exactly intuitive as it stands. Alternatives considered [Zscaler](https://www.capterra.com/p/175516/Zscaler-Internet-Access/) Switched from [Intercept X Endpoint](https://www.capterra.com/p/151731/Sophos-Endpoint-Protection/) The ability to use a cloud firewall solution that with integrated VPN and supported Azure SSO with MFA was the biggest attraction. Review Source AK Andy K. Director of IT Machinery Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Cato Networks SASE" July 20, 2021 5.0 Implementing Cato Networks has increased our security baseline footing by moving traffic management farther away from our internal network, decreasing the attack surface. It also strengthened our remote user access restrictions and control, and increased our internet bandwidth and network availability. Pros \- Edge firewall protection as a service rather than on-prem hardware that requires constant updating and lifecycle replacement/support. - Remote access methods that connects remote users directly to private backbone network and from there to resources. Lessens requirement for all traffic to flow through main office network for resource access, removes insecure split tunneling for internet access. - Ability to aggregate multiple WAN sources and software defined network QoS and traffic management, and redundancy should one WAN provider experience outage. - Local PoPs mean users connect to closest/fastest ingress to Cato Network, including Ashburn AWS PoP and MS data centers for our cloud-based resources. - AD directory sync to import VPN users and groups and also provide directory awareness (traffic can be labeled by specific AD user and/or machine). Cons Like any other change between vendor offerings, there is a learning curve on migrating existing policies and routes/uses to the new setup (for example, firewall setups and NAT/port forwarding were different than our Fortinet equipment). Frequent usage and help from deployment specialists have lessened this and increased our self-reliance and understanding for day-to-day use. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite Ease of use, value proposition for Komori America, full suite of product range in one purchase from one company (not add-on products to a separate vendor's offering, often lacking security component in SD-WAN), global private backbone. Switched from [FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall](https://www.capterra.com/p/231835/FortiGate-Next-Generation-Firewalls/)[FortiClient](https://www.capterra.com/p/151916/FortiClient/) Keeping the physical firewall updated with current firmware and need to replace models every 3 years was getting difficult to manage and costly to maintain. Firmware updates meant network downtime and sometimes major reconfiguration as features would be deprecated and have to be redeployed when the new firmware is installed. Also, as this hardware was directly connected to both the internet and our internal network, the chance of compromise was increased if bad actors could exploit any weakness in the physical firewall itself. Deploying MFA was an added expense with the Fortigate, plus the cost of maintaining a separate FortiAnalyzer instance for full reporting capability. Review Source JC Josia C. systems admin Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Review of Cato" July 23, 2021 5.0 very good! What I like most is how easy and helpful it is to get customer support! Pros The interface is very easy to use. During down time I get the notifications I need to make sure things are running, and overall it's a very reliable system Cons It would be nice to make it easier to do network packet test on specific ip addresses to see if anything is getting blocked Switched from [Sonicwall Network Security Manager](https://www.capterra.com/p/219070/Sonicwall-Network-Security-Manager/) The Sd-WAN features and the multi site management Review Source IM Ilario M. ICT Infrastructure Manager Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "usefull worldwide carrier" February 16, 2025 4.0 A very easy to use and stable link, with plenty of services supplied; we need a carrier in a difficult region and CATO was the best solution in terms of bandwith, services, compliancy and time to deliver. Pros easy to use and mantain access everywhere very stable Cons overall price, socket HW not always performing as expected Review Source BV Braian V. Analista infraestructura Food Production Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cato Network Suit, a perfect solution to keep you safe anywhere" September 17, 2024 4.0 The experience has been good overall, we are able to work from anywhere like in the office, keep an eye of who is using the VPN solution, keep unwanted pages at bay to keep the team productivity. Pros Easy enrollment of users, powerfull VPN, I can work anywhere like I'm in the office, the company can decide wich pages the users can use to avoid phisihng attacks or hacks via ads or unsafe pages Cons When the platform has problems it can be a headache, this don't happen a lot, but it leaves users without a network unless they change the wireless network to a wired one. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Infrastructure Engineer Management Consulting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very Easy to Use and Install Software" July 27, 2021 5.0 Pros Cato integrates very smoothly with Windows 10 and is non-intrusive. Users will barely know it is running, except that everything works. From an Admin perspective, it has easy to use dashboards to get an overview of your services. The support from Cato through all stages of set up and use are frankly excellent. Cons Nothing noticeably awry with this product. Review Source ST Stephen T. SM Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CATO Network" July 21, 2021 4.0 Pros Secure Access Service edge and ease of monitoring remote branches Cons no Cloud Access Security broker feature Review Source UA Urvish A. Director - IT Governance and Risk Chemicals Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great product with great support team" July 26, 2021 5.0 good Pros Light on system, easy to navigate and fast Cons User friendliness of extracting various reports. This has dependencies from support Review Source EL Enrique L. Network Engineer Outsourcing/Offshoring Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cato Review" July 20, 2021 5.0 Good Pros Easy to use, if your are looking for a simple environment, communication between branches and secure internet access this is the solution for you. If all of your sites are on the US. Cons Lack of some features. It's really expensive for sites outside the US Review Source HNW HAN NENG W. IT Manager Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Cato SDN is easy to setup and managed. " July 20, 2021 5.0 Pros We like CATA SDN is the most user friend and ease of managing the SDN network. The network in the Asia Pacific regions were stable and able to help us to manage remote office location easily. Cons Lack of support on the local remote location where our small region offices were located. Review Source ET Emiliano T. ICT Specialist Machinery Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The definitive SASE" July 15, 2021 5.0 We use Cato for routing and QoS over several sites and cloud datacenters, and the overall experience is great. We don't use instead security services, so I can't express myself for that. The product is inexpensive compared to MPLS or competitors, so it defintely worth the investment. Highly recommended. Pros Cato offers a complete SASE suite that you can bring up really in a few hours. By choosing to connect your sites with the hardware appliance (Cato socket) you can have them online by simply connect the WAN port to the Internet. Alternatively, you can connect your exisiting infrastructure using IPSec or, in case of cloud subscriptions, using the virtual version of the socket. All the traffic and security rules can be defined using the cloud console, same thing for the network ranges to connect through the cloud router. Eveything is super-simple and super fast, leaving all the complexity of a global SD-WAN behind the curtain. Support team is available for any need and very fast in answers. Cons QoS rules are applied at the Cato PoP, sometimes we had slight issues over the last-mile where the traffic shaper failed to avoid line congestion. Especially the "Limit only when the line is congested" feature resulted ineffective in those cases. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite Ease of use was the main driver. As icing on the cake, the required budget for the implementation turned out to be much less that competition. Review Source JD Jon D. Sr Systems Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CATO SASE is very good" July 26, 2021 5.0 Some of the benefits I noticed migrating from Cisco firewalls / IPS / VPN and Velo SD-WAN to CATO SASE: - My connection to Azure is no longer a somewhat buggy Cisco ASA to Azure, site-to-site VPN, and the remote access VPN users no longer have to tunnel through the main datacenter to get to Azure. Instead with CATO, you can stand up a set of CATO virtual appliances in Azure. The virtual appliances connect out to the CATO cloud, your datacenter, offices and VPN users connect out to the CATO cloud, and all the things talk (if your WAN firewall rules allow). If you need a way to connect into Azure, this is a nice setup. - In the Cisco world, updating a firewall meant looking through several firmware versions, reading the release notes to make sure the firmware is compatible with the IPS and the VPN clients and the ASDM. The process always seemed overly complicated, especially when these systems are mission critical and outage windows are small. With CATO, firmware updates, IPS updates, SSL certs updates, VPN client updates are all done automatically. - The tech support so far has been good to work with. I always seem to have suggestions with any new security product and CATO has been receptive to them. Pros I came to CATO from the Cisco world. I had 20+ years managing Cisco Firewalls/IPS/VPN/etc and one thing I required in a new solution was customization. The ability to fine tune security products to fit the specifics of different environments is critical in my opinion. CATO does require time to learn the system to get the most out of it, but it's no more difficult than Cisco firewalls. Cons I'm very happy with CATO. One thing I would like to see in the future is the ability to write custom IPS rules. Review Source GW Gerry W. IT Director Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cato Networks Simply Removed All Concerns we used to have about Network connectivity and reliability" July 20, 2021 5.0 This has been one of the very best technology decisions we have ever made. After living with Cato Networks for a few years I can’t imagine switching to another provider Pros Deployment was quick and easy. After that we basically ignore it because it just works, all of the time. Problems and outages don’t happen any more. When we want to make a change we can do it quickly and easily and expert support is available 24x7 when we are doing something new and need some help Cons There is very little to complain about and nothing major at all. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite All of these competitors did less for higher cost and were nowhere as capable or easy to use. Review Source lC leonard C. Network Administrator Machinery Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ulbrich's cato" July 27, 2021 5.0 Pros Dashboard, the fluidity of navigating to where you want, the management piece of it, the help section but its mostly self explained to get to where you want to get to as long as you have some basic understanding. Some onboard training helps out as we had and once you use it you are pretty much up and running or use the help section Cons Nothing really, it can be intimidating when you 1st see it but its really not. I suggest taking the time to really click through all the options and visualize how the options can protect your network Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite vendor relationship suggested it as we were looking to replace our mpls circuit Review Source CB Chris B. agent Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cato's SASE offering is a top notch SDWAN/Security/Remote Access Solution-" July 15, 2021 5.0 Looking to combine SDWAN with a high quality network security solution, that has easy to use secure remote access software. CATO is able to accomplish this! Pros I like it all. To be able to consolidate critical services into to ONE, with a single pane of glass to monitor and manage from...it's a winner. ZTNA is now needed more than ever, and to be able to include that with SDWAN, is a great way to go. Cons I think the user interface could be made to look a little nicer and user friendly. Also, on smaller accounts, more user friendly billing terms would be helpful. Other than that, no issues about the service offering, the quality of the install and support teams, or the pricing. It's all top notch. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite All is one, cloud based, very reasonable price point and easy to work with install and support teams. Review Source MC Matthew C. Systems Administrator Legal Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "CATO the Pandemic Breaker" July 20, 2021 5.0 Overall experience has been great. Cato helped us get our workforce working from home when it was crucially needed. Pros Ease of setup, configuration, maintenance, and VPN. Cons Every site requires a new bandwidth license which increases cost. Review Source JB Jason B. IT Manager Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CATO" July 20, 2021 5.0 The best experience so far from a security supplier Pros Has desired features, ease of use and integration with other apps. Cons Want to be able to order direct and configure with CATO Alternatives considered [FortiClient](https://www.capterra.com/p/151916/FortiClient/) Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite needed less hardware Review Source TW Thomas W. VP IT & Logistics Food Production Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cato Networks Suite for small and medium Business " July 20, 2021 4.0 I have done a complete Network and infrastructure overhaul, Cato is a key component and it works well! Pros Ease of use, remote accessibility. Clear crisp and easy to use Dashboard. Cons Reporting functionality - to cumbersome, not enough details no download capabilities. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite n/a Switched from [Cisco AnyConnect](https://www.capterra.com/p/169495/VPN-and-Endpoint-Security-Clients/) Technology overhaul in general. Review Source AS Abhay S. Manager Chemicals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Confluence of IT Services" August 8, 2021 5.0 Good Pros Transparency, robustness, responsiveness Cons Time lag between threat detection and response. Review Source FL Fernando L. Manager Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SASE experience" July 20, 2021 5.0 Very simple and agile solution. We really enjoy working with Cato. Pros Simplicity of how we can now control our communications and security. Cons Cato pricing can be challenging and requires to evaluate internal communications and security costs to calculate a ROI. Reason for choosing Cato Networks Suite Overall sase experience and technical results. Local POPs in Latam. Review Source VP Vickesh P. Head of Engineering Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "easy to use, does what it says" July 28, 2021 5.0 great for vpn access, managing security on the network Pros ease of use, easy to deploy, and administer intuitive interface Cons cost was a negative, but you pay for what you get and the higher price does reflect the quality of the suite Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.