We compared Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Cato Networks across several parameters based on our user reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Initial Setup: The user reviews for Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform mention varying durations for deployment and setup, ranging from three months for deployment and an additional week for setup to a week for both. Cato Networks users emphasized the importance of considering the context in which terms like deployment, setup, and implementation are used.
Valuable Features: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is known for its robust security measures, seamless integration with existing systems, advanced analytics, simplicity of use, and reliable customer support. Cato Networks is praised for its excellent network performance and reliability, ease of implementation and management, and comprehensive security features.
Room For Improvement: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform could benefit from improvements in performance, reliability, and user interface. Cato Networks needs enhancements in network speed and stability, GUI for easier navigation, occasional connectivity issues, faster support response times, and more advanced customization options.
Setup Cost: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is affordable and offers good value for money, with transparent and flexible licensing terms. Users have also found the cost of Cato Networks to be reasonable, with appreciated flexibility in licensing options.
ROI: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform offers increased network security, simplified management, improved performance, and cost savings. Cato Networks provides increased efficiency, cost savings, improved network performance, ease of implementation, and secure connectivity across multiple locations. Both platforms offer valuable investment opportunities for businesses.
Customer Service: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is praised for its commendable customer service, with top-notch assistance and guidance. Cato Networks also provides highly satisfactory customer service, with customers appreciating the responsiveness and helpfulness of the support team.
Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is preferred over Cato Networks. This choice is based on user feedback that highlights Versa's robust security measures, advanced analytics capabilities, and seamless integration with existing systems. Versa excels in customer service and support, offering top-notch assistance and guidance to ensure a seamless experience for customers. Users have mentioned that Cato Networks could benefit from enhancements in terms of performance, reliability, user interface, and customization options.
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"I haven't had any trouble, and practically forget that I'm using it."
"The solution is stable."
"Cato offers all the functionality found in other solution. The life cycle management is always very stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features."
"The product is very simple, and everything can be done very quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Cato Networks is the CASB and the documentation is useful."
"It is quite simple and easy to use."
"The query and the SD-WAN are useful features of the solution."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"Their dashboard is also a good point for us and the customer. The solution is very clean and easy."
"Versa FlexVNF is a scalable product because it does not have any hardware dependencies. This makes it a versatile solution that can be easily integrated with any firewall."
"The division of Control Plane and Data Plane is most valuable. It can be deployed anywhere, and you can control it and configure it from anywhere. This is one of the good features of this solution."
"The product has a dynamic VPN feature for SD-WAN."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Our customers are very satisfied with this solution. They have not mentioned any areas for improvement."
"The granularity when it comes to configuration and security features are valuable."
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"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"The price could be better."
"They should include a web application firewall feature in the solution."
"Its functionality is a bit limited in some areas as compared to a Cisco solution. It is not as granular. It doesn't have the manageability, feature set, and capabilities of a larger or an enterprise-level solution. It just needs a more robust feature set and granularity."
"Web application firewalling (WAF) is a feature we would like to have in this solution and does not exist yet."
"I am located in South Korea, and I can say that most people here have no idea about Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks should promote its network services in various countries."
"A little tweaking or improvement of the UI in terms of logging when troubleshooting would be an improvement because it's very detailed."
"Cato Networks security could be better."
"I would like to see better integration with identity providers."
"We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the customers can have bigger chunk from the SD-WAN side so that customers can have critical data be transferred with NPS VPN and non-critical data or some labeled traffic can be transferred by the SD-WAN network. I think it's a very important direction for digital transformation."
"Certainly, there are areas that require enhancement, and the current focus is on improvements. Presently, I believe that the emphasis should be on enhancing user interface (UI) features, particularly over end devices. The issue arises when attempting to log in to Versa from other devices, as the UI is not device-specific. Consequently, guiding someone to log in to Versa antivirus becomes challenging. Despite the absence of issues on the website, the lack of a login scope impedes graphical representation of user data or databases. Since work databases support only a limited range of features, I recommend augmenting features for end devices to address these limitations."
"The UTM features can be improved. It should offer better functionality."
"I heard about them for the first time just before I started working on Versa. They do have blogs for information, but they could publicize more about the documentation and architecture. It doesn't seem to have that much exposure, and they should work on their customer base more."
"The smaller units lack a lot of functionality."
"The VPN feature is relatively new. It came out two releases ago, and they're still fixing that up."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
"The interface could be simpler."
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Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 21 reviews while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is ranked 8th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 20 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform writes "A flexible, stable and scalable solution ". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, whereas Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Meraki SD-WAN and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform report.
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