The Cato Masterclass
Ten positions Matrix Networks holds on every Cato tenant we manage, and the chain of trust most tenants have not finished building.
Two hours for the people who administer Cato, the morning of Tech MiXer XIV. Same venue, lunch at noon, straight into the main event.
Save My Seat Tech MiXer XIVMost Cato tenants are healthy on paper and quietly incomplete in practice.
Inspection is switched on but decrypting a fraction of the traffic. A broad rule sits high in the list and stops everything beneath it from ever matching. A posture check still points at a product the business retired two years ago.
None of this throws an error. It arrives later as a ticket about call quality, or as a finding in an audit.
- How to read your own tenant the way we score it.
- Why enabled and inspecting are two different numbers, and why Encrypted Client Hello makes that gap urgent.
- Where rule order silently cancels the policy you thought you wrote.
- How device identity, posture and conditional access join into one chain you can enforce.
Two parts, one room.
Start with the standard, then go deep on the part most tenants have not finished.
The Cato Commandments
The ten positions, in order, with what a met position looks like and what a missed one looks like. Eight configuration standards ranked by scorecard weight, and two judgment calls the business owns. It also sets up the two positions Part Two goes deep on.
Chain of Trust
Jeremy takes a deep dive into the two areas where most tenants stop short: policy that follows the person rather than the address, and a device that proves itself before it connects. He follows both out to zero trust, identity provider conditional access, and single sign-on for SaaS applications through Cato. Very few tenants use the identity side, the posture side, or an IDP to lock down SaaS. That gap is what this hour and a half is about.
The people who score the tenants.
Both from Matrix Networks.
Jeremy Ness
Jeremy sets the technical standard Matrix holds its managed tenants to and leads the deep work behind it: inspection, posture, identity and the design decisions clients only get one chance to make correctly.
Todd Babiak
Todd runs the Cato deep dives and monthly reviews across the managed base. He scores tenants against the Commandments, which means he opens roughly forty client consoles a month and sees which of these ten go wrong most often.
Save your seat.
Seating is limited. Lunch is provided at noon, and Tech MiXer XIV doors open at 12:30, so you can stay for the afternoon without moving your car.
Reserve your spot
Friday, October 16, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Oregon Zoo. Lunch provided. Free to attend.
Having trouble with the form? Email info@mtrx.com or call (503) 654-3000 and we will register you.