Cato Networks,provider of software-defined and cloud-based network withbuilt-in enterprise security, has announced that Alon Alter and StreeNaidu have joined the company to accelerate customer and partner growth acrossEMEA and Asia Pacific & Japan.
The appointments follow the successful 2016introduction of the CatoCloud integrated securityand network platform, and $30M Series B round of funding.
Alon Alter will be responsible forall sales, business development and partner acquisition efforts for CatoNetworks across EMEA. Prior to joining Cato Networks, Alon was the VicePresident of Global Sales for Incapsula (now Imperva Incapsula) where he builtthe sales team from the ground up and was responsible for growing the businessfrom $1M in revenue to the high tens-of-millions within four years. Alon has 18years’ experience leading global sales, business development, operations andsoftware development in the cloud and cybersecurity industry.
“The days of clunky, expensive,rigid and hard to defend enterprise networks are coming to an end. With computeand storage rapidly moving to the cloud, networking and security are the nextpillars to migrate - enabling on-demand secure connectivity with a single pointof management,” said Alter. “Cato is at the forefront of this convergence and Ilook forward to bringing to bear my nearly two decades of experience helpingenterprises and channel partners across EMEA optimize their IT operations anddeliver new managed services.”
Stree Naidu will manage Cato’sbusiness operations in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. In his previous roleat Imperva, Stree’s technical knowledge and experience developing and growingsoftware businesses were key to providing solutions that helped customersprotect against data security threats. Stree is a recognized industry leaderacross Asia Pacific for his deep IT, networking and security knowledge, acrossboth public and private sectors.
“Extending our cloud service toAsia will enable regional and international organizations to better connect andsecure their global branches, datacenters and mobile users,” said Naidu. “Ourcustomers and partners are enthusiastic about the simplicity, security andaffordability of the Cato Cloud and the opportunity to transform their complexand fragmented IT infrastructure.”
“The addition of two provenindustry veterans to our team will allow us to help customers achieve trueconvergence and simplicity while reducing infrastructure cost and andmanagement overhead,” said Shlomo Kramer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cato Networks.
“Overcoming one of the greatest challenges of today’s IT infrastructure - embeddingsecurity into the network’s data plane - is our mission at Cato Networks, andwe’ve achieved it with an entirely new cloud-based architecture.”
The Cato Cloud connects allelements of the enterprise network, including branch locations, the mobileworkforce, and physical and cloud datacenters, into a global, encrypted andoptimized network in the cloud. With all WAN and internet traffic consolidatedinto the cloud, Cato applies a set of security services to protect traffic atall times.