Cato SD-WAN
Connects branches and cloud over multiple links, picks the best path, and keeps the application up when one of them fails.
Managed service · SASE network and security
Converged network and security, managed on Cato
Lynxsource deploys and runs your network and your security on the Cato SASE platform — SD-WAN, firewall, secure web gateway, and Zero Trust access in a single cloud — from its own Security Operations Center, 24/7. We do not hand you another console for your team to administer: we run it ourselves, as an MSSP with ISO 27001:2022 and in-house teams in five countries.
SASE brings into one service what used to be separate boxes — the branch router, the firewall, the web proxy, the VPN. The value is not in owning the Cato license, but in who designs the policies, connects every site and user, and watches the traffic when something falls outside the normal. We do that for you.
- Operating since
- 2009
- Certification
- ISO 27001:2022
- Model
- MSSP
- Presence
- 5 countries
The definition
What is managed SASE on Cato?
It means bringing your network and your security into a single cloud — Cato’s — that Lynxsource designs, connects, and monitors for you, instead of maintaining and patching separate boxes at every site.
For years, connecting a company meant stacking equipment: a router for the link, a firewall to protect it, a proxy for web browsing, a VPN for whoever works away from the office. Every box from a different vendor, with its own console, its own updates, and its own blind spots between one and the next.
SASE collapses all of that into a cloud service: traffic from every branch and every remote user goes out to Cato, which applies the networking and the security right there. We design those policies to fit your operation, connect every point, and monitor the whole — you stop administering equipment and deal with a single party.
The scope
Which Cato components does Lynxsource operate?
SD-WAN for the network, FWaaS for the perimeter, SWG for web browsing, ZTNA for access, and a threat layer (IPS/anti-malware) — all in the same cloud.
These are not five separate products but one service seen in layers. The same traffic Cato routes with SD-WAN is inspected by the firewall, filtered by the web proxy, and governed by Zero Trust access; and if something malicious shows up, the threat layer acts without the traffic having to leave for another box.
FWaaS (Firewall as a Service)
The firewall lives in the Cato cloud, not in a box per site: the same rules across the company, with no appliances to maintain.
SWG (secure web gateway)
Filters and protects your users’ browsing, inside or outside the office, without hauling traffic through headquarters.
ZTNA (Zero Trust access)
Your people reach internal applications by identity and context, without exposing a traditional VPN.
IPS / Anti-malware
Threat inspection over that same traffic, to stop intrusions and malicious code in transit.
Secure networking is one of the nine layers we operate as a single system.
The decision
Why run Cato with an MSSP instead of in-house?
Because migrating to SASE and sustaining it properly demands network and security design at once, plus someone watching the traffic around the clock — not just an activated license.
Cato lowers the complexity of owning boxes, but it does not remove the decisions: which links each site prioritizes, what each department can and cannot browse, who reaches which application, how someone working from home connects. Badly configured, a SASE either slows the work down or leaves doors open.
Building and retaining a team that masters both networking and security, and that also watches 24/7, costs more than the platform. As an MSSP, that team already exists, has already run dozens of these migrations, and responds for you under a service agreement: you pay a fee, not a payroll.
The operation
How does Lynxsource run and monitor your network with Cato?
We design and connect your SASE, and from our SOC we watch the traffic: we triage anything anomalous in under a minute and respond before it escalates.
The start is a project: we survey your sites, users, and applications, define the network and security policies, and connect every point to the Cato cloud without interrupting the operation. From day one you have one coherent policy, not one per device.
After that it is continuous operation: Cato traffic and alerts come into our Security Operations Center, where they are correlated with the rest of what we monitor. We triage, investigate what warrants it, and respond — adjust a rule, block a destination, isolate an access — and every month we hand you what happened and what is worth tuning.
The coverage
Which countries does Lynxsource operate in?
With in-house teams in Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia, and also in the United States and Canada.
In-house means the analysts, the automation, and the operations center belong to Lynxsource. In a reseller model your provider opens a ticket with another provider and passes the answer along when it arrives; here whoever answers is whoever decides.
The service is the same in all five countries, with the same SOC behind it and the same triage and response figures. What changes is who you have nearby, not the quality of the monitoring.
Questions about this service
Frequently asked questions
Does Cato replace my MPLS and my VPNs?
Yes. The Cato network replaces dedicated links and the traditional VPN; we migrate gradually, without cutting your sites off.
Do I need to buy appliances at every branch?
There are no security boxes per site: a small device connects the branch to the Cato cloud, where the networking and the security live.
Does it work the same for a branch and for remote workers?
Yes. The remote user connects to the same service with the same policies, with no separate VPN.
What if I already have firewalls from another vendor?
They coexist during the migration and we retire them once Cato already covers their job; nothing has to be switched off all at once.
Can I migrate in stages?
Yes, and it is the sensible way: we start with the sites or the cases that hurt most and move forward in phases.
Who responds when something goes down at 3 a.m.?
Our SOC, at any hour: it does not wait for your office hours.
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