Cato Networks today introduced digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities that will augment the company’s cloud SASE platform with application traffic and network performance data that IT operations teams need to optimize end-user experiences.

Cato DEM extends Cato’s capabilities beyond the traditional secure access service edge (SASE) platform by monitoring and analyzing data across application and network traffic. DEM augments Cato Cloud SASE with insights to improve application performance for end users and customers, in addition to the network and security data the platform covers. Cato had previously added extended detection and response (XDR) and endpoint protection platform (EPP) capabilities to its cloud-based SASE solution.

“We see DEM as a crucial component of the future SASE landscape, but only with the right platform,” said Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), in a statement. “User experience is a primary currency for evaluating IT effectiveness, and building DEM on the right SASE platform will help ensure great user experiences. But to deliver on that mission, the SASE platform must provide visibility into all applications, offer ways to fix user experience problems with those applications, and have the necessary real user traffic insights for accurate analysis.”