Our take
What our shortlists say about the one we picked.
- Cato Networks Network Firewall
Best for: Teams eliminating on-premises firewall hardware entirely
The SIEM integration is worth noting. Cato logs network events and can forward them to your existing SIEM for correlation. This is important because FWaaS creates a new log source that your SOC needs to ingest and normalize. Verify that Cato's log format works with your SIEM before you commit. The cloud-native architecture also means you cannot do the kind of low-level packet capture and analysis that you can with an on-premises appliance, which matters for some incident response workflows.
From Best Next-Generation Firewall Solutions for Business, Fall 2026
Reviewed by Nika (Nikoloz) Kokhreidze.
