Enhance your network security with Cato LAN NGFW.

Why Is Securing LAN So Challenging?

If managing LAN security feels overwhelming, you’re not alone. Traditional firewalls require hardware investments, complex configurations, and ongoing maintenance. As businesses expand, handling security policies across multiple locations becomes an operational nightmare. And compliance? That’s an entirely different challenge—ensuring data segmentation and policy consistency across various environments can feel nearly impossible.

Legacy security approaches were never designed for modern enterprises that demand scalability, centralized policy enforcement, and protection against lateral threats—without added complexity. Traditional solutions are complicated, expensive, and require constant oversight from already overburdened IT teams. As a result, many companies leave their networks exposed to risks from uncontrolled lateral movement within the LAN.

Cato LAN NGFW – Security Without Complexity

Imagine being an IT administrator responsible for multiple locations, each with different security requirements. Instead of deploying and managing multiple physical firewalls, you can have comprehensive LAN security without additional hardware, fully integrated into your infrastructure.

Cato LAN NGFW is a next-generation firewall (NGFW) natively embedded within the Cato SASE Cloud platform, providing application-aware segmentation directly from the Cato Edge Socket. This ensures that LAN traffic is protected at the same level as WAN and Internet traffic.

Operating at Layer 7, Cato LAN NGFW enables granular control over LAN applications such as RDP, SSH, and more, ensuring complete security and segmentation. Management is centralized via the Cato Management Application (CMA), allowing for consistent policy enforcement across all locations, regardless of their number.

How Cato LAN NGFW Simplifies Security Management

The goal is simple – enhance network protection while reducing complexity.

No More Hardware Headaches

Tired of deploying and managing physical firewalls? Cato LAN NGFW requires no additional hardware—just the Cato Socket. This means lower costs, reduced complexity, and no need for separate firewall maintenance, allowing you to maintain an efficient, lightweight infrastructure.

Security That Grows with You

Whether you have one office or a hundred, Cato LAN NGFW ensures consistent application-aware segmentation across all locations. Forget manually configuring separate firewalls—now, everything is managed from a single console.

Protection Against Lateral Threats

One of the biggest security risks is lateral movement, where an attacker, once inside, can spread freely across the network. Cato LAN NGFW stops this by enforcing granular segmentation, allowing only authorized traffic to move within your LAN.

Effortless Compliance

Meeting regulatory requirements is complex when security policies are scattered across multiple systems. Industries like healthcare and finance must enforce strict data segmentation to comply with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other standards. Cato LAN NGFW automatically enforces these policies locally, eliminating the risk of unauthorized data flow and simplifying compliance significantly.

Cato LAN NGFW in Practice

⦿ Eliminating Outdated LAN Firewalls

Managing hardware lifecycles, patches, and updates is a time-consuming task. Cato LAN NGFW replaces traditional LAN firewalls by embedding segmentation directly into the SASE platform, reducing costs and lowering operational overhead.

Easier Security Management for Distributed Locations

Ensuring LAN security across multiple locations can be challenging. Cato LAN NGFW enables consistent application-aware segmentation, regardless of the number or distribution of company branches. This provides complete control over network traffic without the need to configure separate firewalls at each site.

Blocking the Spread of Threats

Once a threat enters the network, containing its spread is crucial. Cato LAN NGFW leverages application-aware segmentation to protect critical systems without compromising network performance. This ensures that only authorized traffic moves within the LAN infrastructure.

Effortless Regulatory Compliance

Many compliance standards, such as HIPAA and PCI-DSS, require LAN traffic to remain within the local network. Cato LAN NGFW automatically enforces these rules, ensuring that sensitive data stays in its designated location and does not cross network segment boundaries.

Why Choose Cato Networks?

We believe that security should be simpler, smarter, and scalable. By natively integrating LAN security into the Cato SASE Cloud platform, we eliminate the barriers that make traditional solutions increasingly complex and costly.

With Cato Networks, you get:

✅ Unified security for LAN, WAN, and the Internet
✅ Consistent security policies across all locations
✅ Simplified management and rapid deployment

Security Can Be Simple

You don’t have to choose between effectiveness and ease of management. Cato LAN NGFW delivers complete network protection within a single cloud-based platform. If you’re looking to simplify LAN security, eliminate hardware firewall management, and meet compliance requirements, it’s time to take a closer look at Cato LAN NGFW.