Cato Networks vs Microsoft
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Tel Aviv SASE pioneer (founded 2015, Check Point co-founder) at $300M+ ARR (Sep 2025) and $4.8B valuation (Series G Jun 2025); first acquisition Aim Security AI Sep 2025 competing with Palo Alto Prisma SASE and Zscaler.
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Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) network security company — having raised over $1 billion in total funding including a Series G round in June 2025 at a $4.8 billion valuation — providing enterprises with a converged SD-WAN, network security (firewall, CASB, DLP, ZTNA), and XDR platform delivered as a cloud-native service from a global Points of Presence (PoPs) network. Founded in 2015 by CEO Shlomo Kramer (co-founder of Check Point Software, pioneer of the commercial firewall in 1993, and founder of Imperva in 2002) and President Gur Shatz (co-founder of Incapsula, cloud web application security), the company defined the SASE category before Gartner formally named it in 2019. Cato surpassed $250 million in ARR in 2024 (+46% year-over-year growth) and reached $300+ million ARR by September 2025, serving 3,500+ enterprises across 190 countries with 50,000 connected sites and 1.5 million remote users protected by zero trust network access (ZTNA). In September 2025, Cato completed its first acquisition — Aim Security — to expand AI security capabilities for enterprise AI agent adoption.
GitHub Copilot 20M users; Copilot deployed in 90% of Fortune 100; Azure AI infrastructure serving OpenAI exclusively + 65,000+ enterprise customers. Copilot Studio for enterprise AI agents; $13B invested in OpenAI total.
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Microsoft Corporation is a Redmond, Washington-based global technology company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: MSFT) as an S&P 500 Information Technology component and the world's second-largest publicly traded company by market capitalization (~$3.2 trillion) — providing cloud computing, enterprise software, developer tools, gaming, and AI-integrated productivity applications to businesses, consumers, governments, and developers worldwide through approximately 228,000 employees. In fiscal year 2024 (ending June 2024), Microsoft reported revenue of $245.1 billion (+16% year-over-year), with the Intelligent Cloud segment (Azure cloud platform) generating $105.4 billion (+22%), Productivity and Business Processes (Microsoft 365, Teams, LinkedIn, Dynamics) generating $77.7 billion (+12%), and More Personal Computing (Windows, Xbox, Surface, Search) generating $61.8 billion (+17%). Microsoft completed the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023 — the largest gaming acquisition in history — adding Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Candy Crush, and King's mobile games to the Xbox ecosystem. For fiscal year 2025, Microsoft guided continued 13-15% revenue growth driven by Azure's AI infrastructure demand (Azure AI customers grew 100%+ year-over-year), Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise AI assistant adoption, and GitHub Copilot developer AI tool revenue. CEO Satya Nadella's "mobile-first, cloud-first" strategy, refined to "AI-first" with the OpenAI partnership, has created Microsoft's most competitive product positioning since the Windows/Office era.
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