The need to manage more and more business data, securely, instantly and geographically distributed across different areas is putting a strain on traditional network systems. At the same time, an increasingly Cloud First, fast and agile approach is incompatible with networks such as MPLS and Legacy WANs, which are increasingly under-utilised, despite their high costs.

Criticalcase Global Secure Network service

Criticalcase walks its customers towards the adoption of the Secure Access Service EDGE (SASE) Model, the framework introduced by Gartner in 2019. This is an emerging enterprise strategy that converts SD-WAN and network security services, including Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) into a single, secure, fully cloud-based service model.

Criticalcase applies the software-based approach to the enterprise network, adopting the Cloud Native SD-WAN solution in order to reduce transport costs over MPLS, VPN tunnels and other connection types and to improve application performance and increase agility.

Criticalcase and Cato Networks partnership

Criticalcase has formed a major partnership with Cato Networks, the world’s first SASE platform that combines SD-WAN and network security into a global cloud-native service. Cato Cloud connects all enterprise network resources, such as branch locations, mobile workforce, physical and cloud data centers, providing a global, secure and controlled SD-WAN service. 

Cato’s private global network backbone consists of more than 50 PoPs located around the world, including remote locations, so that performance is improved even in those areas with poor internet connectivity. PoPs are interconnected by multiple Tier 1 providers guaranteed by Service Level Agreements (SLAs). All PoPs use Cato’s cloud-native software stacks.