Cato Networks plans major hiring push in Israel amid war. The cybersecurity firm to add 140 employees to support rising demand for SASE solutions. 18:20, 31.03.26 Cybersecurity company Cato Networks is embarking on a significant hiring drive, Calcalist has learned. The company, founded and led by Shlomo Kramer, plans to recruit 140 employees in the coming months. It currently employs 1,700 people, half of whom are based in Israel. The expansion will span the entire organization, including development, support, marketing, finance, and human resources. Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato, told Calcalist: "Cato was founded in Israel out of conviction as much as strategy - to build a global company with its key leadership, R&D, and key functions based in Israel. Our continued expansion in Israel is a natural extension of that approach. Being based here enables our teams to be directly involved in decision-making and to have a direct impact on the product and the way the organization runs - enabling faster execution, broader ownership, and a culture built on team autonomy." The hiring push follows a period of rapid growth at Cato, which develops cybersecurity solutions in the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) category for secure remote connectivity in cloud environments. The company recently announced it had reached an annual revenue run rate of $350 million in 2025, representing 43% growth compared to 2024. Alongside workforce expansion, Cato is also increasing its real estate footprint. The company has leased the historic Farmers' House on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv, which it is expected to occupy in 2027 after Fiverr vacates the premises. The seven-story building will complement the six floors Cato already occupies in the Landmark Tower in the Sarona complex. The new space is intended to accommodate both newly hired employees and several dozen staff from Aim, which Cato acquired for $350 million in September 2025 as part of its expansion into AI application security. Following the move, expected to be completed in 2027, Cato will occupy a total of 23,500 square meters of office space, comparable to the footprint of Palo Alto Networks in the Alon Towers.

Cato Networks has unveiled a modular adoption model for its SASE platform, allowing organisations to start with specific capabilities and expand over time. The company offers four standalone modules: AI Security, SD-WAN, SSE and Universal ZTNA, all powered by a converged platform architecture. Each module functions as a complete enterprise solution whilst sharing a unified management console, policy framework and data lake. The platform runs on Cato Neural Edge, a GPU-powered global backbone spanning over 85 points of presence, with a 99.999% uptime service-level agreement. Cato Networks was named a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms for the second consecutive year. The platform is now generally available worldwide with user-based and site-bandwidth pricing that allows flexible scaling and phased deployment.

Cato Networks unveils GPU-powered SASE with native AI security controls. Mar 17, 2026 4 mins Cato Neural Edge embeds Nvidia GPUs to enable real-time traffic inspection, and Cato AI Security unifies AI governance and runtime protection for enterprise AI adoption. Cato Networks this week launched two additions to its secure access service edge (SASE) platform that the company says will address security challenges enterprises are facing now: protecting the AI tools end users rely on, while also using AI to defend against sophisticated threats. Cato Neural Edge deploys Nvidia GPUs across the 85+ points of presence (PoPs) of Cato's global private backbone to enable real-time traffic inspection, threat detection, and policy enforcement. Cato is also launching Cato AI Security, which combines AI governance and runtime protection capabilities the company acquired with AIM Security into the Cato SASE Platform. "AI is changing both sides of the equation: the threats we face and the defenses we need. With Cato Neural Edge and Cato AI Security, we are empowering enterprises to strengthen AI-driven defense and govern enterprise AI without sacrificing performance or adding operational complexity," said Matan Getz, vice president of AI security at Cato Networks, in a statement. According to Gartner, by 2028, more than 75% of enterprises will rely on AI-amplified cybersecurity products for the majority of use cases, up from less than 25% in 2025. This reality is reshaping cybersecurity, according to Cato Networks, and driving the need for enterprises to "evolve both their security controls and the infrastructure powering them." Cato Neural Edge embeds a GPU-powered enforcement layer directly within the company's global PoP network, enabling Cato's platform to execute intelligence and enforcement within the PoP itself, the company says. Cato Neural Edge can enable: * High-frequency execution of AI/ML models inline * Real-time semantic and behavioral inspection * Scalable analysis across global traffic flows * Deterministic performance without external processing layers Cato AI Security is designed to govern employee use of AI tools, secure homegrown AI applications, and enforce guardrails for autonomous AI agents, according to the company. It can operate as a standalone solution or with additional Cato SASE Platform capabilities, including SD-WAN, SSE, and universal ZTNA. The capabilities can be managed via a unified control plane and policy engine that shares context across the platform to deliver faster detection and response, Cato says. One early adopter shared their impressions of the Cato AI Security capability: "One of the biggest advantages for us is that AI security isn't another console or separate enforcement layer. It's built directly into the Cato SASE Platform," said Marc Crudgington, vice president of cybersecurity and IT infrastructure at global logistics company Crane Worldwide Logistics, in a statement. "We can govern AI usage, secure homegrown AI applications, and manage agent workflows using the same policy engine and data lake that already protect our network and cloud environments. That unified architecture reduces complexity and ensures consistent enforcement everywhere AI operates." Cato SASE Cloud Platform runs on a private global backbone of more than 85+ points of presence (PoP) connected via multiple SLA-backed network providers. The PoPs software continuously monitors the providers for latency, packet loss, and jitter to determine in real-time the best route for every packet. Cato applies optimization and acceleration to all traffic going through the backbone to enhance application performance and the user experience. To ensure all locations benefit, Cato optimizes traffic from all the edges and toward all destinations, on-premises and in the cloud. Cato AI Security is generally available to customers worldwide. Cato Neural Edge has been deployed across the Cato SASE Platform. Network World smart answers. From our editors straight to your inbox. Get started by entering your email address below. Senior Editor Denise Dubie is a senior editor at Network World with nearly 30 years of experience writing about the tech industry. Her coverage areas include AIOps, cybersecurity, networking careers, network management, observability, SASE, SD-WAN, and how AI transforms enterprise IT. A seasoned journalist and content creator, Denise writes breaking news and in-depth features, and she delivers practical advice for IT professionals while making complex technology accessible to all. Before returning to journalism, she held senior content marketing roles at CA Technologies, Berkshire Grey, and Cisco. Denise is a trusted voice in the world of enterprise IT and networking.