Aryaka, Cato Networks, Dispersive Stealth Networking and Netskope

About Cato Networks

Cato Networks sells the Cato SASE Cloud, a SASE platform built as a global cloud with a single-pass engine, a single data lake and single policy enforcement. Cato Networks describes its SASE platform as converging networking, security and access into a single, global, AI-powered cloud service. Cato Networks states that the platform delivers secure, optimized access from distributed points of presence close to users and business resources.^[15]

Cato Networks states that day-to-day planning, scaling and maintenance depend on specialized, hard-to-find expertise. In the company's account, controls differ across users, sites, datacenters and cloud, leaving gaps as applications migrate. Cato Networks positions its platform as a replacement for point products, with a single policy and console running on an SLA-backed global backbone.^[6][7]

The core of the platform is the Single Pass Cloud Engine, called SPACE. SPACE converges NGFW, threat prevention, and CASB, DLP and ZTNA into one cloud-native stack. Thousands of SPACEs run on bare-metal compute across worldwide PoPs, interconnected by tier-1 carriers. Every inspected flow feeds network, device, user, app and data context into one open data lake that is accessible through the Cato API. Cato Networks says NGFW, CASB, DLP, ZTNA, threat prevention and AI controls all run on a single policy engine.^[6]

On the networking side, Cato Networks carries SD-WAN traffic over a private global backbone. Cato Networks connects sites to the Cato Cloud, where they are managed centrally. For access, Cato Networks offers adaptive, risk-based, zero-trust access to private applications located on-premises or in the cloud. The access methods include ZTNA Client, Enterprise Browser, Browser Extension and Clientless Portal. Cato Networks says these access methods can coexist with current access solutions and be selectively deployed to secure some or all application access.

Cato Networks discovers local, custom and managed agents across the enterprise, including their tools, MCP servers, data access and execution paths. Cato Networks controls prompts, responses, tool calls and tool actions before agents create business impact. Cato Networks says AI security can be deployed independently to protect AI usage and AI agents across the organization. Organizations can run AI Security for Applications on-prem or in their own cloud with AI Security Outposts.^[9][10]

Other modules run on the same platform. Cato DLP offers a catalog of 350+ pre-defined data types covering common use cases for sensitive data, PII, and compliance. The Cato DLP engine inspects all traffic to private applications and SaaS apps. Cato EPP is fully managed through the Cato Management Application. Cato DNS Security inspects all DNS traffic in real time to prevent malicious activity hiding within the protocol, and it blocks DNS requests to malicious destinations before a connection is ever made. The Cato Management Application unifies configuration, monitoring and analytics in a single pane of glass.^[12][13][14]

Cato Networks offers MDR, which delivers zero-footprint detection of persistent threats with no agents or appliances. Cato Networks monitors last-mile ISPs 24×7 at every site. On an outage or performance degradation, Cato Networks works with the ISP to resolve it. For management, customers can choose Cato or a qualified partner to help manage the networking and security environment. For site deployment, the zero-touch Cato Socket deploys quickly at customer premises, by the customer or with Cato and partner remote or on-site support. Customers can self-manage, co-manage with a partner and Cato, or hand over complete hands-free operations.^[15]

On deployment, Cato Networks says zero-touch provisioning and self-service client rollout enable selective deployment by use case, geography, or org unit. Cato Networks says its modular platform coexists with existing infrastructure, allowing gradual adoption. Cato Networks says organizations can start with a specific capability such as SD-WAN, SSE, or ZTNA and expand over time without rearchitecting the environment.^{[6][12][13][14][15]}

About Dispersive Stealth Networking

Dispersive Stealth Networking is described by the company as a lightweight, quantum-resilient overlay that makes communications and data in motion invisible and keeps them running under attack. The company says it strengthens the network and security stack a customer already runs, with sovereign control of critical systems, enclaves, AI workloads, and distributed operations. It secures the communication paths that connect users, applications, agents, models, and infrastructure.^[1][3][4]

Dispersive is a software overlay that runs on the infrastructure a customer already operates. Communications are fragmented and dispersed across dynamic, non-deterministic paths. It runs over transport including internet, 5G, VSAT, MPLS, and cloud backbone. DispersiveCloud is a hosted solution, and a self-host option is also offered. Trusted Cloud Edge (TCE) dynamically splits and secures traffic across multiple invisible paths.^[4][5]

The company describes Dispersive Stealth Networking (Dispersive Holdings, Inc) as a preemptive cybersecurity platform. For its hosted option, it states that it operates on cloud networks, partnering with Amazon Web Services and Azure.^[4][6]

The company states its architecture is FIPS 140-3 compliant and aligned with NIST-standardized algorithms, including ML-KEM. It also says post-quantum protection extends across the data plane and the control plane. Its defense page describes a software-defined transport fabric that combatant commands, mission partners, and federal systems integrators can field on mission-approved or customer-furnished hardware. Its financial services page says it meets standards like PCI DSS and GDPR.^{[1][2][4][5][6][7][8]}

About Netskope

Netskope sells a cloud-native platform, Netskope One, that converges security and networking services to enable fast and secure AI, cloud, and web access. Netskope describes the platform as one engine, one client, one console and one network.^[11][15]

Netskope says its platform addresses the move of work to the cloud. Netskope One is described as a unified SASE platform providing access to and securing SaaS, IaaS and web traffic. Netskope says it makes networking, operations and security teams more efficient by reducing complexity across both networking and security.^[11][15]

At the center of the platform sits the Netskope Zero Trust Engine, which Netskope says ensures continuous adaptive trust-based policy controls across secure access (SASE), AI security and data security services. The Netskope NewEdge Network is described as the backbone of the Netskope One platform. The Netskope One Orchestrator provides a single point for policy management across all components of the Netskope One platform.^[11]

Its components include Netskope One Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, which delivers web security from the cloud, and Netskope One CASB, which identifies and manages cloud application use for both managed and unmanaged apps. Netskope One Firewall as a Service provides network security on outbound traffic across all ports and protocols for users and offices. Netskope One Remote Browser Isolation isolates risky websites for safe viewing.^[11]

Netskope One Private Access is the foundation of Netskope's Universal ZTNA, which replaces VPNs and provides access across IT, operational technology, and connected devices. Copilot for Private Access auto-recommends granular app segments and least-privilege policies for new deployments. Local Broker extends ZTNA to on-prem and OT environments.

Netskope Skylight AI Command Center provides a single operational view of an AI ecosystem, including AI asset discovery, visibility of usage, and risk intelligence. Netskope Skylight AI Command Center runs on the Netskope One platform, so existing deployments stay unchanged.^[11][18]

For data protection, Netskope One DLP offers over 3,000 data classifiers and over 1800 file types. Netskope One DSPM identifies and flags at-risk data across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and on-prem sources.^[11][19][20]