The company combines SASE with SSE providing a global converged cloud service that securely and optimally connects all organization’s offices, data centers, people and clouds.
The distribution agreement extends across Southern Europe, specifically covering Portugal, Spain, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Turkey.
Madrid, August 29th, 2022.- Ingecom, a Value Added Distributor (VAD) specialized in cybersecurity, OT/ICS, IoT and IMoT cybersecurity and cyber intelligence solutions, reached a distribution agreement today with Cato Networks, provider of the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform. Aligned with Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) architectures, Cato’s converged, cloud-native architecture allows companies to move away from rigid and disjointed connectivity and security architectures, reducing cost and complexity, while providing affordable and ubiquitous optimized connectivity worldwide enabling IT to rapidly address new business requirements, such as global expansion, M&A, cloud migration, and the hybrid workforce.
SASE and SSE: The Future of Networking and Security is in the Cloud
SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), converges SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE) functions, including FWaaS, CASB, DLP, SWG and ZTNA, into a unified, cloud-native service.
The transition from in-office to remote work, as well as the emergence of a cloud-first culture, is having a major impact on enterprise networks and information security. Networking patterns have changed, and organizations need to deploy new services and address new requirements faster than ever before. With a single-vendor SASE, enterprises gain a unified architecture for connecting and securing users everywhere – in the office, on the road, or at home. With SASE, enterprises eliminate the effort and costs required to maintain a complex and fragmented infrastructure made up of point solutions, reduce the risk of breach and data loss with an optimal security policy, enable secure work from anywhere, and improve access to global applications on-premises and in the cloud. In short, a SASE architecture provides the agility and flexibility needed in this new environment. SASE allows new branches to be deployed remotely with little overhead. It also provides security to ensure that employees can securely access systems from anywhere.
Secure access to the Internet, SaaS applications, and beyond
The Cato SASE Cloud is the leading single-vendor solution for SASE and SSE. SSE focuses on securing HTTP access to the Internet and SaaS applications. Cato SSE 360 goes beyond basic SSE to secure all ports and protocols in all directions whether applications are on the Internet, the cloud, or private datacenters. Cato SSE 360 provides visibility, optimization and control of all enterprise traffic, including WAN, cloud and Internet, so customers can control application access based on risk and compliance requirements associated with user identity, device location, website categories, cloud application profiles and many other attributes.
A global and converged cloud proposal
Cato SASE Cloud provides a global converged cloud service that securely and optimally connects all offices, data centers, people and clouds. Cato can be deployed incrementally to replace or augment legacy network services and security point solutions.
Ingecom has been offering Cato’s SASE and SSE proposition since the beginning of August, according to Javier Modúbar, CEO of Ingecom, “The signing of this agreement falls within Ingecom’s strategy of closing alliances with market leading companies in their sector and doing so in all territories where Ingecom operates directly or indirectly through MultiPoint in the rest of Southern Europe. We believe that with this agreement we cover a need of many organizations that are addressing a digital transformation and especially those that have many remote offices or teleworking users and need to reduce the complexity of IT management, as is happening in other countries. We expect enterprise adoption of Cato Networks to grow rapidly where it has placed its trust in us for distribution”.
From Cato Networks, Mark Draper, Director of Channel Sales, EMEA, said: “We’re excited to be partnering with a leading VAD like Ingecom. With Cato, organizations gain the agile, efficient, and secure infrastructure they need to transform their businesses and their organizations. The combination of Cato and Ingecom will enable even more companies to benefit from the power and agility of the Cato SSE 360 and Cato SASE Cloud.
