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Shinka IT becomes Cato Partner MSP

Shinka IT becomes a Cato Partner MSP and expands its SASE expertise


Shinka IT is proud to announce the evolution of its official partnership with Cato Networks as a Managed Service Provider (MSP). This strategic move reflects our commitment to supporting organizations in transforming their network and security architecture through cloud-native, high-performance, and fully integrated solutions.

This partnership strengthens our SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) offering and enables us to deliver a modern, unified, and managed approach to connectivity and cybersecurity for our clients.

Why SASE? A response to today’s hybrid infrastructure challenges


Traditional architectures based on local appliances, MPLS, or a patchwork of disparate security solutions are reaching their limits:

  • Proliferation of sites, remote workers, and cloud resources
  • Surge in traffic volume to secure and optimize
  • Complexity in managing security policies
  • Rising operational costs
  • Lack of global visibility across the infrastructure

The SASE approach, defined by Gartner, aims to unify networking and security within a distributed cloud service.
It replaces or complements technologies such as:

  • Traditional MPLS / VPN
  • Physical firewalls
  • Web proxies
  • Standard SD-WAN solutions
  • Isolated CASB / ZTNA / SWG tools

The goal: deliver consistent, secure, high-performance connectivity aligned with modern usage (cloud, mobility, multi-site).

Cato Networks: a fully cloud-native SASE platform


Cato Networks is recognized as a SASE leader thanks to its 100% cloud-native architecture built on a global network of PoPs interconnected via its private backbone.
The platform natively integrates:

🔵 SD-WAN Connectivity

  • Link aggregation
  • Dynamic traffic optimization
  • Intelligent path selection (QoS, latency, loss…)
  • Advanced resilience

🔵 Comprehensive Security Suite (Security Service Edge – SSE)

  • Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS)
  • Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
  • Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
  • Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
  • Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
  • TLS inspection
  • Advanced malware and threat detection

🔵 Global Private Cloud Backbone

  • Optimized latency
  • Superior performance compared to standard Internet connections

🔵 Centralized Visibility

  • Single dashboard
  • Unified policies
  • Consolidated logs
  • Detailed application control

This consolidation of networking + security within one platform significantly reduces operational complexity.

A fully managed MSP offering by Shinka IT


As a Cato Partner MSP, Shinka IT handles the entire solution lifecycle:

🔧 Deployment

  • Assessment of existing network
  • SASE architecture design
  • Installation of Cato Sockets
  • SD-WAN and SSE policy configuration
  • Multi-site & remote user integration

📡 Monitoring & Supervision

  • Continuous performance and security monitoring
  • Traffic analysis
  • Proactive anomaly detection
  • Alerts and recommendations

🔐 Security Management

  • Ongoing policy updates
  • Rule optimization
  • Zero Trust enforcement
  • User and resource access management

🛠️ Support & Operations

  • Incident management
  • User / IT assistance
  • Regular reporting
  • Continuous optimization based on business needs

🎯 Final objective:


Enable your internal teams to focus on their core missions while ensuring a modern, high-performance, and secure architecture.

Concrete benefits for your organization


Thanks to this partnership, companies can now enjoy:

✔ Simplified architecture
Fewer disparate solutions, fewer appliances to maintain, more consistency.

✔ Lower costs
No complex hardware, no scattered local maintenance.

✔ Improved performance
Optimized traffic, private backbone, high-capacity cloud inspection.

✔ Unified security
One policy, one analysis engine, complete visibility.

✔ End-to-end Zero Trust approach
Users, sites, and resources treated with the same level of rigor.

✔ Expert-managed service
Shinka IT ensures ongoing monitoring, optimization, and security.

A major milestone in Shinka IT’s strategy
This MSP partnership with Cato Networks reinforces our vision:
to provide businesses with a modern, coherent, agile, and secure infrastructure capable of meeting current and future needs.

Combined with our expertise in networking, security, cloud, and managed services, Cato becomes a key component of our portfolio, enabling us to guide organizations through their transition to hybrid and distributed models.

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