Networking and Security Spotlight


CARLSBERG GROUP SELECTS CATO NETWORKS FOR SASE


With a single-vendor SASE deployment, Carlsberg is addressing strategic IT challenges at scale, improving application delivery, modernising security capabilities, and standardising IT service delivery across 200+ locations and 25,000+ remote users.


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ato Networks, which provides a single-vendor SASE platform, has been


chosen by the Carlsberg Group to transform its global network and security infrastructure. The Cato deployment will span 200+ locations and 25,000 remote users worldwide. Instead of security appliances, Carlsberg will rely on Cato’s cloud-native security capabilities, including SWG, CASB, DLP, ZTNA, FWaaS, IPS, and NGAM. “We were looking to move from


several regional service providers with fragmented technical solutions to one integrated network and security stack with an end-to-end managed service,” said Laurent Gaertner, global director of Networks at the Carlsberg Group. “The Cato SASE Cloud and service offering perfectly matched our requirements.” “The same challenges faced by


Carlsberg — optimal security posture, improved global performance, and enhanced business agility everywhere — confront enterprises worldwide every day,” says Shlomo Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. “Cato was explicitly built to help companies of all sizes meet those needs. We’re excited to work with Carlsberg and see their adoption of Cato as just the latest evidence that large enterprises can best meet today’s security and networking challenges with a single- vendor SASE cloud platform.” The legacy network, built from different regional point solutions


and technologies, proved to be challenging to manage for Carlsberg. Opening new locations took too long. VPN performance into China was a problem. And across regions, the Internet-based SD-WAN connecting locations was unsuitable for the company’s VoIP and fully utilising all Microsoft Office 365 features. “We had to retain MPLS just to ensure proper voice quality,” says Gaertner. “And with Microsoft Teams, it doesn’t take a lot of latency for the application collaboration features to become unusable.”


www.pcr-online.biz The mix of appliances also created


security problems. With multiple firewall appliances, visibility was fragmented. Multiple sets of security policies had to be maintained, which increased complexity and risk. Carlsberg’s Cyber Security Group wanted zero-trust to be implemented consistently, which also wasn’t possible with the legacy network. From a strategic perspective,


building the legacy network from different providers and technologies prevented IT from delivering consistent service levels worldwide. “Some users would receive higher availability and others better capabilities, but we couldn’t bring it all together to create an à la carte set of services that could apply to any office anywhere and facilitate our global IT development,” says Gaertner. Day-to-day management was also


compromised. Change requests took too long in part because of the different management interfaces, which complicated problem identification and resolution. Coordinating the different layers of the solution with different service providers became a real challenge. To address those problems, the


company began looking for a single, global SASE solution. After an extensive evaluation of six SASE approaches, Carlsberg selected Cato. Cato’s rich security capabilities meant Carlberg would have one


platform and one security policy worldwide protecting all edges -- sites with SD-WAN devices, the cloud with native cloud connectivity, and mobile users running the Cato Client. “The Cato security features are a significant step ahead in our Zero Trust implementation strategy and the future innovation will bring us even further,” says Tal Arad (pictured), vice president of global security and technology at Carlsberg. The Cato global private backbone underlying Cato SASE Cloud


also met Carlsberg’s performance requirements globally. As such, Carlsberg expects to eliminate the remaining MPLS, relying on Cato for VoIP, ERP, and the rest of its applications.


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