Cato Networks and CrowdStrike have integrated their security platforms to unify network and endpoint telemetry, giving customers a more streamlined way to investigate threats while creating new managed security and consolidation opportunities for channel partners.
Cato and CrowdStrike connect network and endpoint data
This unified integration will help security teams unify network and endpoint visibility, streamline investigations, and accelerate threat detection and response.
“Organizations need security technologies that work together seamlessly to keep pace with modern threats,” said Chris Stewart, vice president, Global Cloud and Technology Alliance Partners at CrowdStrike.
“By integrating the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with the Cato SASE Platform, customers can correlate network and endpoint telemetry, streamline investigations, and respond to threats faster.”
Integration targets faster investigations and threat hunting
Integrating the Cato SASE Platform with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform enables organizations to investigate threats more efficiently, improve detection fidelity, and respond faster through a unified security operations workflow.
Among the features of this integration are:
- Accelerated investigations: Cato XOps and CrowdStrike Falcon Discover correlate endpoint detections with network telemetry to improve threat visibility and accelerate investigations.
- Strengthen asset visibility and posture: Cato Asset Security and Falcon Discover enrich device intelligence with endpoint context and provide a more complete view of managed assets.
- Enhance threat hunting and detection: The Cato SASE Platform streams network telemetry into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to enable analysts to hunt threats, build detections, and investigate activity from a broader set of security signals.
Cato sees a broader technology alliance ahead
According to Karl Soderlund, Global Channel Chief at Cato Networks, in an interview with Channel Insider, these three features are key to what Cato Networks is working on with CrowdStrike to cover the EDR, IoT, and next-gen SIEM spaces.
“I look at that as a starting block of the integration. Starting blocks to really get the relationship going,” said Soderlund. “We’re going to go wider and deeper together. We’re both committed to doing that. And I can tell you, both sales forces are excited as well as our joint partner community is very excited.”
This new integration is borne of customer’s desire for unified visibility across their environments – making the CrowdStrike-Cato Networks partnership a natural fit.
“From a customer standpoint, what they’re always trying to do is unification. In this case, we unify the network and endpoint telemetry, so the more information they have, the more they will be able to manage their network and their environment in the best possible way and also increase their security posture,” Soderlund explained.
When it comes to telemetry, Soderlund compares traditional independent security products with the integrated approach by saying that more shared information leads to better protection and a simpler customer experience.
“Information is king,” Soderlund says, adding that the more information that you can gather, the more knowledge you can have to protect your network, protect your security assets, and protect your environment.
CrowdStrike and Cato Networks are two best-of-breed companies coming together to bring together two best-of-breed solutions, according to Soderlund.
Partners gain managed services and consolidation opportunities
There are two key benefits for channel partners as a result of this partnership: bringing a differentiated solution to customers and available service dollars.
“Whether it’s consolidation of the network itself and consolidation of the environment. Whether it’s allowing them to run a full-blown managed service together with the two companies, there’s a tremendous amount of upside for them,” said Soderlund.
“We’ve been doing partnership events with CrowdStrike to build awareness out there in the marketplace that the customers can take advantage of.”
Simpler security management drives the customer pitch
Simplicity is a key tenet of the partnership. Organizations that invest in managed services today do so for a level of simplicity due to having smaller IT teams.
These two organizations partnering means bringing together two technologies that work together and not requiring resources to manage them independently.
“As much as folks want to increase their security posture, they’re always looking back and saying, ‘How difficult is it to manage from a day-to-day basis? What kind of talent pool do I need to have to manage it?’ If we can bring simplicity to the marketplace, they get excited,” Soderlund explained.
Soderlund emphasizes simplicity and long-term value as key to what customers should take away from this partnership.
“[Customers] have an opportunity to look at two best-of-breed technologies through a singular lens,” he said. “It’ll bring a lot of simplicity into management – a simplicity from an ease of use and delivery standpoint. And there’s a lot of long-term viability that they have.”
“When you have a technology alliance and integration, you hope to bring simplicity, but you also hope to bring it to market. We’re going to bring this to market and scale it together. We’re well prepared on this one, and we look forward to seeing what results we can drive together.”