Häfele transformed its 180-site global network and security infrastructure in less than a month with the help of Cato SASE Cloud . Daniel Feinler , CISO , Häfele , discusses how this transformation took place and offers advice to other organisations looking to improve their network and security infrastructure . ato Networks ,

“ When your network is down from a cyberattack , every minute counts and you can ’ t afford to bring back a partially secured network . You have one shot to do it right and fast ,” said Daniel Feinler , CISO , Häfele . “ The deployment speed with Cato SASE Cloud was a gamechanger . By working with Cato Networks , we were able to bring up the entire network with full security in less than a month . It was so fast that a competing SASE vendor didn ’ t believe us . Cato made it possible .”

“ Agility and security are core requirements for every enterprise and especially in times of crisis ,” said Shlomo Kramer , CEO and Co-founder ,

Cato Networks . “ We were happy to support Häfele confront such a challenge and we appreciate its trust in Cato SASE Cloud as its new global network and security infrastructure . Our teams collaborated efficiently and professionally , setting a world record in a large-scale SASE deployment project .”

Häfele finds the right SASE partner

In February 2023 , Häfele , a German family enterprise based in Nagold , Germany , suffered a severe ransomware attack forcing the company to shut down its computer systems and disconnect them from the Internet . At the time , Häfele was in an RFP process to select a SASE vendor .

“ We had finished a proof of concept with Cato and were getting ready to move to the next SASE provider when the ransomware attack occurred ,” said Mike Bretz , Global Team Lead of Network , Häfele . Instead , the Häfele team turned back to Cato .

Over the next four weeks , Häfele worked with Cato and restored its IT systems . Häfele installed Cato Sockets , Cato ’ s Edge SD-WAN device , at 180 + sites

Daniel Feinler , CISO , Häfele across 50 + countries such as Argentina , Finland , Myanmar ( Burma ) and South Africa . A global , unified security policy was configured to help prevent another attack and 8,000 employees regained secured access to the Internet and enterprise resources , including 4,000 mobile users who now use Cato Client for ZTNA .

With Cato SASE Cloud , Häfele is now benefitting from a global , unified multilayer security stack that inspects all traffic in all directions from all edges and provides consistent and comprehensive enterprise-grade security . Häfele ’ s new security from Cato includes FWaaS , SWG , IPS , Next-gen Antimalware , CASB and MDR – all targeted towards preventing future breaches and www . intelligentciso . com

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