Netskope for SaaS: CASB Product Overview and Insight

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Netskope began shipping a CASB product in October 2013 and was one of the early CASB vendors that emphasized both cloud application discovery and SaaS security posture assessments. It includes well-developed behavior analytics and alerting within managed and unmanaged SaaS applications. Netskope for SaaS is aimed at enterprises.

Notable features

  • Netskope can be deployed either 100 per cent in the cloud, as an on-premises appliance, or via a hybrid configuration that includes both.
  • Cloud and web traffic is steered to Netskope for inspection using a patented all-mode traffic steering technology that provides several out-of-band and inline options. This is designed to ensure 100 per cent coverage for users on premises, mobile, and remote.
  • Real-time inline (proxy) capabilities include the ability to SSL-decrypt cloud and web traffic at scale in order to enable full visibility of data movement and user activities.

Supported applications and platforms

Netskope can secure and manage the use of thousands of cloud services — including sanctioned services like Office 365, Box and AWS, as well as unsanctioned ones like DocuSign.

Use cases

Automotive and manufacturing, financial services and insurance, government, healthcare and life sciences, legal, oil and gas, retail and hospitality, and utilities.

Size limits

Netskope’s cloud-native architecture is able to accommodate the requirements of the largest enterprises.

Security certifications

ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27018:2014, SOC 2, SOC 3, Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5), CSA Star – Cloud Security Alliance

Delivery method

Cloud service, appliance or both

Technology (API, proxy or hybrid)

API, proxy, and hybrid

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