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Netskope CASB

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What is Netskope CASB?

Netskope cloud access security broker (CASB) enables the user to identify and manage the use of cloud applications, regardless of whether they are managed or unmanaged, and prevents sensitive data from being exfiltrated from your environment by risky insiders or malicious cybercriminals who have breached your perimeter.

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Secure your endpoints in any environment.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Netskope CASB to monitor and restrict shadow-IT in our environment through policy rules. We also use Netskope CASB to enforce controls on SaaS applications, scanning for malware and preventing unwanted actions related to data exfiltration. In addition to the items above, we also utilize Netskope to log and filter HTTP activity at the endpoint.

Pros

  • Extensive controls for various SaaS applications.
  • Easy to deploy and manage.
  • Highly customizable policies.

Cons

  • Initial configuration requires strong knowledge of the product in order to avoid misconfigurations.
  • Challenging to troubleshoot network related issues.
  • Some integrations are released with limited functionality, making them difficult to implement.

Return on Investment

  • Reduce risk exposure associated with data exfiltration.
  • Prevent unsanctioned use of third-party SaaS applications.
  • Provide defense-in-depth by scanning files through network traffic before they reach the device.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Other Software Used

Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Verstality in One solution.

Incentivized
Harmesh Trivedi
Service Delivery in Customer Service at Doyen Infosolutions (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Netskope CASB in our organization caters to Govern, Secure data and protection against threats. Use case which we cater and helps organization wide is Govern O365 access and other cloud services. Upload/Download of documents are seamless and end users work is not hindered. Conditional activity is also one of the best feature, where outside organization/domain access needs to be approved. CRA report is also fantastic to capture anomalies regards to number of hits/uploads/download, etc.

Pros

  • Monitor or control user activities irrespective accessing via mobile or desktop app
  • User login anomalies
  • Block or limit access for creating cloud instances like Buckets, Clusters, etc
  • Prevent uploading any data to Cloud storage service

Cons

  • Fine tuning of Web Categories
  • UPN and Email attributes mapping should be further simplified as deployment progresses
  • Email DLP is at nascent stage, can be further strengthened and matured.

Return on Investment

  • ROI is difficult to quote but protection against threat is biggest ROI for any company
  • Confidential data is governed at micro level
  • Upload/download of documents even to unwarranted sites like pdf convertor is blocked

Usability

Other Software Used

CrowdStrike Falcon, Forescout Platform

Netscope it is a great solution for small size companies

Incentivized
Pat Balcerek
Security Specialist in Engineering at Hubsport (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Monitoring all traffic
  • Protecting your end user traffic

Cons

  • Public IP for user can be from different country then it came from
  • Sometimes you can't get anywhere with Netscope ON
  • Location is the key for speed so users complain for speed of 'internet'
  • Some location blocks Netscope IP ranges

Most Important Features

  • Protection of end user traffic

Return on Investment

  • We end up troubleshooting many not existing issues thanks to Netskope.

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Netskope CASB review

Incentivized
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used this for shadow IT and for basic DLP functions. We were one of the very first customers of Netskope, the trajectory of the product is excellent. It was a great control for managing and monitoring all SaaS usage with the organization.

Pros

  • Monitor SaaS usage.
  • Manage gaps in shadow IT.
  • Provide basic DLP functionality for SaaS usage.

Cons

  • Some improvements in reporting.
  • Make some integrations easier.
  • Pricing.

Most Important Features

  • Basic DLP
  • Shadow IT monitoring
  • SaaS usage monitoring

Return on Investment

  • Identify non-sanctioned cloud applications.
  • Justify use and expansion of IaaS.
  • Track sensitive data flows in and out of Cloud.

Alternatives Considered

Menlo Security CASB

Other Software Used

Armorblox

Keeping *aaS Visible and in Check

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Policies against integrated SaaS applications.
  • Visibility into cloud applications usage and risk.
  • Cloud Confidence Index (research into security confidence of providers).

Cons

  • Infrastructure resilience.
  • Growth and scale issues.

Return on Investment

  • We can see no large percentage of cloud applications that are being used in the enterprise outside of IT knowledge.
  • We can now have conversations regarding risk, and consolidation of overlapping applications, reducing risk and expense.
  • Allows for IT to assess and mitigate the risk of risky applications or platforms being used and where information may be leaked.

Other Software Used

Cisco Umbrella, Qualys Cloud Platform (formerly Qualysguard)