Cato Networks Acquires Aim Security

Cato Networks, an Israeli SASE company, has acquired Aim Security, which focuses on AI security.

“AI transformation will eclipse digital transformation as the main force that will shape enterprises over the next decade,” said Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks. “With the acquisition of Aim Security, we’re turbo-charging our SASE platform with advanced AI security capabilities to secure our customers’ journey into the new and exciting AI era.”

Aim discovers shadow AI usage, and monitors and protects end-user AI interactions, thereby enabling new AI use cases. Employees can use public and enterprise AI agents such as Microsoft Copilot, develop with new AI coding agents such as Cursor, and leverage local agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The company’s AI firewall secures internal AI applications and agents against runtime AI attacks. It also enforces corporate security and governance policies on all interactions between users, AI agents, and internal AI applications and models, whether on premises or in a cloud data center.

Aim extends the Cato SASE Cloud Platform by enabling additional AI security capabilities intended to address the complexity and unstructured nature of AI interactions to detect and stop threats, attacks, risky or anomalous access, and data breaches. These capabilities will be combined with Cato’s visibility and policy enforcement capabilities. Cato supports a modular and gradual adoption of platform capabilities across SD-WAN, SSE, ZTNA, and now AISEC.

Cato will offer Aim capabilities as part of the Cato SASE Cloud Platform in early 2026 and will offer a migration path to all customers who deployed the standalone Aim solution.

In addition, Cato announced it has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Cato also extended its Series G financing round announced in June with an additional $50 million investment from Acrew Capital, bringing the total round to $409 million. The financing took place on the same terms and valuation.

Channel Impact^®
This acquisition is intended to expand the Cato SASE Cloud Platform, enabling secure enterprise adoption of AI agents and public and private AI applications.