Introducing Cato AI Security
Secure and Govern AI Usage Across Your Organization
The new AI Security service lets you confidently adopt AI tools and applications across your environment while maintaining full visibility, policy enforcement, and data protection. AI Security includes these scopes:
AI for End Users governs how employees use external AI services and AI-enabled SaaS applications
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AI for Applications protects AI capabilities built into your enterprise systems and custom applications
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AI Security helps you control AI usage with the following capabilities:
Gain visibility into AI interactions across public AI tools, AI-enabled SaaS applications, and custom AI-powered apps
Apply consistent threat prevention and data protection controls to AI interactions
Monitor prompts and responses to detect misuse and prevent data leakage in real time
Enforce acceptable use and compliance policies for AI services used by employees
Secure API calls and data flows between enterprise applications and AI models
Available in Demo Mode in the Cato Management Application (CMA)
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Requires an AI Security for Users or AI Security for Applications license. For more information, contact your Cato representative or authorized reseller
New Features & Enhancements
Accelerate Troubleshooting with Expanded Ask AI Event Coverage: We added broader event coverage across your environment so that Ask AI helps you resolve issues faster, including:
Investigating security, network, connectivity, and audit events in one place
Getting Socket-related information, such as how many X1500B Sockets do I have?
Starting troubleshooting immediately and resolve issues before opening a Support ticket
Available in the Ask AI assistant in the CMA and through Cato’s remote MCP server
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Aggregated WAN Throughput for Socket Sites in Network Analytics: You can view total aggregated WAN link throughput for Socket sites in the Network Analytics page, including concurrent hosts and flows. This provides a unified view of site capacity and utilization, helping you better monitor performance and identify bottlenecks across all WAN links. Previously, metrics were shown only per link.
The existing Site & Tunnel tab is now split into separate Site and Tunnel tabs. The new aggregated metrics appear in the Site tab
RBI Profiles for Granular Browser Isolation Policies: Create Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) profiles with different browsing isolation controls and assign them to specific Internet Firewall rules. This lets you apply different RBI behavior based on user role, risk level, or business need. For example, you can enforce stricter RBI controls for uncategorized domains and more relaxed controls for SaaS apps.
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Cato Security App for Splunk with a Threats Dashboard: Monitor and investigate security threats with the official Cato Security App for Splunk, giving you visibility similar to the Threats Dashboard page in the CMA.
View IPS, DNS, Anti-Malware, and suspicious activity data
Filter data by time range, index, and SPL query
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Device-based Criteria for Network Rules: Apply device criteria conditions to Network Rules to control routing and connectivity decisions based on device identity, posture, and context.
Apply attributes such as OS, platform, manufacturer, and model when matching Network Rules
Use Device Posture Profiles to route traffic only for compliant devices (for example, approved Client versions)
Differentiate Network Rules based on device location, origin (remote or behind a site), or device category (such as IoT/OT)
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Configure Custom Thresholds for Default DEM Probes: Fine-tune alert sensitivity for default DEM probes by configuring custom thresholds to help you detect issues more accurately based on your environment. The configurable predefined default probes include:
LAN Gateway
Underlay Reachability
Underlay Socket Traceroute
Supported from:
Socket v25 and higher
Windows Client v5.22 and higher
macOS Client v5.11 and higher
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Application Control via API - Support for Miro: Connecting SaaS apps to Cato lets you understand who is accessing each app and identify suspicious activities or trends even when users are not connected to the Cato Cloud. You can now connect your Miro account to provide visibility into user activities.
The Miro connector is available from the Integrations Catalog, under App Activities
CASB license required
AI-Driven LAN Firewall Analysis and Insights: We’re extending an AI-driven enhancement to the Socket Next Gen LAN Firewall policy that provides admins with actionable insights to optimize their firewall configurations, improve security posture, and ensure compliance with best practices. The Autonomous Firewall engine automatically analyzes your LAN Firewall rulebase and detects issues such as:
Temporary rules
Rules that are expired or soon to expire
Test rules
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LAN Firewall and Network Rules Hit Counter: The LAN Firewall and Network Rules policies now include a hit counter to help you monitor the performance of each rule in the policy. Hit counts are based on events generated by the rules, and show:
The number of events generated by each rule in the policy
How often the rule is hit relative to other rules (ranked by percentile)
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Advanced Groups for Network Rules and Socket LAN Firewall Include Support for IP Ranges: We extended support for advanced groups to Network Rules and the Socket Next Gen LAN Firewall, including defining and reusing large sets of IP ranges. This reduces manual configuration and ensures consistency at scale.
Previously available for the Internet and WAN Firewall policies
User Risk Score Dashboard Role-Based Permissions: Better control which admins can access user-related security data and take actions such as revoking sessions or resetting risk levels.
Available from the Access Admin role in the Account > Roles and Permissions page
By default, users with the Access role have edit permissions on the User Monitoring > User Risk page
Microsegmentation with Third-party DHCP Server Using DHCP Relay: Enforce microsegmentation for network ranges that use an external DHCP server, without changing your existing DHCP infrastructure. When Cato is configured as a DHCP relay, the external server assigns IP addresses while Cato applies the same /32 host routing and east-west traffic inspection as with Cato-managed DHCP.
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Enhanced OCR Scanning for DLP: To improve detection accuracy for image-based content OCR scanning now includes coverage for more complex image conditions and text patterns, for example:
Low-resolution and blurred mobile images
Warped, rotated, or crumpled images
Images that contain text in two languages
Optimized Real-Time Quality Health Alerts: Faster and more responsive detection of quality issues improves visibility into network performance.
Automatically applied to Quality Health Rules
May generate more frequent alerts due to increased sensitivity. To reduce alert volume, adjust your Quality Health Rules configuration
Events Show When Sites are Down: For better visibilty into site availability, we added new events to indicate when all site links are down and when one or more links recover.
Previously, events were reported only per link
API for Creating and Managing Webhooks, Mailing Lists, and Subscription Groups: Automate notification delivery across email and third-party systems using a unified API.
For more information, see this article
PoP Announcements
Seoul, KR: A new range (113.30.133.0/24) will soon be added to the Seoul PoP location.
Upcoming New Localized IP Range for Estonia: The following localized IP range for Estonia (serviced through the Helsinki PoP location) will soon be available:
EE: 159.117.235.32/27
Security Updates
Apps Catalog
View more details about apps in the Apps Catalog.
New Apps: 5 new apps - ADB, Claud GPT, Sparkup, StackAI, Tango
Removed Apps: 1 apps - Hangouts for desktop (Deprecated)
Enhanced Apps:
Apple Account
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Apple App store
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Apple iCloud Private Relay
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Apple location services
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Apple Safe Browsing proxy
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Apple software update
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Asana
Updated app domains
Autodesk
Updated app domains
Cisco General
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP)
Modified name from Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) to Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP)
Application is now available in Application Control rules
Darktrace
Updated app domains
Google Chat
Updated app domains
Google meet
Added domains duo.google.com, meet.turns.goog, tel.meet
Updated app IPs
Huntress
Updated app domains
Jfrog
Updated app domains
Kandji
Updated app domains
Microsoft Exchange (Outlook)
Signature Updated
Microsoft Office365
Signature Updated
Ninjarmm
Updated app domains
PDF Converters Unified
Removed domain dfcfw.com
RingCentral
Updated app IPs
Splashtop
Updated app domains
Vicarius
Updated app domains
Vonage
Updated app domains
Zscaler
Updated app IPs
Category Changes:
Generative AI Tools:
Added app: Notion
News:
Added app: Meteofrance
Productivity:
Added app: Notion
Restaurants, Leisure and Recreation:
Removed app: Meteofrance
Travel:
Added app: Meteofrance
IPS Signatures
View more details about the IPS signatures and protections in the Threats Catalog.
CVE-2025-34067 (New)
CVE-2025-40551 (New)
CVE-2025-40552 (New)
CVE-2025-40553 (New)
CVE-2025-71243 (New)
CVE-2026-0770 (New)
DNS Tunneling Abusing NULL Quereies (New)
DNS Tunneling | Iodine (Enhancement)
Long DNS Type A Query Request (New)
Malware - Chrysalis C2 Traffic (New)
Websocket Traffic To Low Popularity Target (New)
SAM Signatures
These protections were added to the SAM service:
Agent Skill ClawHub Web Search (New)
Agent Skill ClawHub Download Web (New)
XDR Indications of Attack
Threat Hunting
Suspicious Files Downloaded From Netlify (New)
Device Inventory
These are the updates to the Device Inventory detection engine:
IOT
IP Camera
Ubiquity IP Camera (Enhancement)
Application Control Via API and Data Protection API Integrations
The enhancements were made for Application Control Via API
Miro Activities
Activity (New)
Microsoft Exchange
Activity (Enhancement)
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Microsoft Teams
Experience (Enhancement)
Zoom
Activity (Enhancement)
GitHub
Activity (Enhancement)
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Google Apps
Activity (Enhancement)
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Google Drive
Activity (Enhancement)
Dropbox
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Slack
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Third Party Apps (Enhancement)
DocuSign
Activity (Enhancement)
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Microsoft General
Activity (Enhancement)
Anomalies (Enhancement)
Azure AD
Third Party Apps (Enhancement)
SalesForce
Third Party Apps (Enhancement)