Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Over the past nine years in the SASE business, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with hundreds of IT leaders—CIOs, CISOs, and IT executives. Through these conversations, I’ve found that five main concerns consistently keep them up at night. This blog aims to share those insights and highlight how I’ve seen Cato Networks’ SASE platform help address these challenges, allowing IT leaders to sleep a little easier.

We’ve watched it happen more than once: A company nails its ISO 9001 audit, celebrating streamlined processes, detailed documentation, and measurable quality goals. Then, a quarter later, they’re scrambling to respond to a phishing incident that exposed customer data – because security lived in a separate silo, untouched by all that operational rigor. At TrustCloud, we’ve seen that organizations that treat quality and security as separate tracks are missing a massive opportunity.

Device onboarding encompasses the entire process of integrating new IoT devices into an organization’s network infrastructure, from initial discovery and authentication to configuration management and ongoing monitoring. This process becomes exponentially complex as device populations grow and diversify. Traditional onboarding approaches often rely on manual configuration, pre-shared keys, or simple certificate-based authentication that requires significant human intervention.