Registration is now open for SASE Week 2023! Get on the guest list.

  • Security Service Edge Products

    Protect against advanced and cloud-enabled threats and safeguard data across all vectors.

  • Borderless SD-WAN

    Confidently provide secure, high-performance access to every remote user, device, site, and cloud.

The platform of the future is Netskope

Intelligent Security Service Edge (SSE), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Firewall, Next Generation Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Private Access for ZTNA built natively into a single solution to help every business on its journey to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture.

Go to Products Overview
Netskope video
Borderless SD-WAN: Ushering in the New Era of Borderless Enterprise

Netskope Borderless SD-WAN offers an architecture that converges zero trust principles and assured application performance to provide unprecedented secure, high-performance connectivity for every site, cloud, remote user, and IoT device.

Read the article
Borderless SD-WAN
  • NewEdge

    NewEdge is the world’s largest, highest-performing security private cloud.

  • Cloud Security Platform

    Unrivaled visibility and real-time data and threat protection on the world's largest security private cloud.

  • Technology Partners & Integrations

    Netskope partners with the strongest companies in enterprise technology.

Embrace a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture

Netskope NewEdge is the world’s largest, highest-performing security private cloud and provides customers with unparalleled service coverage, performance and resilience.

Learn about NewEdge
NewEdge
Your Network of Tomorrow

Plan your path toward a faster, more secure, and more resilient network designed for the applications and users that you support.

Get the white paper
Your Network of Tomorrow
Netskope Cloud Exchange

The Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) provides customers with powerful integration tools to leverage investments across their security posture.

Learn about Cloud Exchange
Netskope video
Make the move to market-leading cloud security services with minimal latency and high reliability.

Learn about NewEdge
Lighted highway through mountainside switchbacks
Safely enable the use of generative AI applications with application access control, real-time user coaching, and best-in-class data protection.

Learn how we secure generative AI use
Safely Enable ChatGPT and Generative AI
Zero trust solutions for SSE and SASE deployments

Learn about Zero Trust
Boat driving through open sea
Netskope enables a safe, cloud-smart, and fast journey to adopt cloud services, apps, and public cloud infrastructure.

Learn about Industry Solutions
Wind turbines along cliffside
  • Resources

    Learn more about how Netskope can help you secure your journey to the cloud.

  • Blog

    Learn how Netskope enables security and networking transformation through security service edge (SSE).

  • Events & Workshops

    Stay ahead of the latest security trends and connect with your peers.

  • Security Defined

    Everything you need to know in our cybersecurity encyclopedia.

Security Visionaries Podcast

Leveling Up the SASE Conversation
Robert Arandjelovic and Gerry Plaza sit down to chat with Max Havey about how embracing a SASE journey can help bring networking and security teams closer together.

Play the podcast
Leveling Up the SASE Conversation
Latest Blogs

How Netskope can enable the Zero Trust and SASE journey through security service edge (SSE) capabilities.

Read the blog
Sunrise and cloudy sky
SASE Week 2023: Your SASE journey starts now!

Join us for the fourth annual SASE Week, September 26-28.

Get on the guest list
SASE Week 2023
What is Security Service Edge?

Explore the security side of SASE, the future of network and protection in the cloud.

Learn about Security Service Edge
Four-way roundabout
  • Our Customers

    Netskope serves more than 2,000 customers worldwide including more than 25 of the Fortune 100

  • Customer Solutions

    We are here for you and with you every step of the way, ensuring your success with Netskope.

  • Netskope Community

    Learn from other network, data, and security professionals.

  • Training and Certification

    Netskope training will help you become a cloud security expert.

We help our customers to be Ready for Anything

See our Customers
Woman smiling with glasses looking out window
Netskope’s talented and experienced Professional Services team provides a prescriptive approach to your successful implementation.

Learn about Professional Services
Netskope Professional Services
The Netskope Community can help you and your team get more value out of products and practices.

Go to the Netskope Community
The Netskope Community
Secure your digital transformation journey and make the most of your cloud, web, and private applications with Netskope training.

Learn about Training and Certifications
Group of young professionals working
  • Company

    We help you stay ahead of cloud, data, and network security challenges.

  • Why Netskope

    Cloud transformation and work from anywhere have changed how security needs to work.

  • Leadership

    Our leadership team is fiercely committed to doing everything it takes to make our customers successful.

  • Partners

    We partner with security leaders to help you secure your journey to the cloud.

Supporting sustainability through data security

Netskope is proud to participate in Vision 2045: an initiative aimed to raise awareness on private industry’s role in sustainability.

Find out more
Supporting Sustainability Through Data Security
Highest in Execution. Furthest in Vision.

Netskope recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge.

Get the report
Netskope recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge.
Thinkers, builders, dreamers, innovators. Together, we deliver cutting-edge cloud security solutions to help our customers protect their data and people.

Meet our team
Group of hikers scaling a snowy mountain
Netskope’s partner-centric go-to-market strategy enables our partners to maximize their growth and profitability while transforming enterprise security.

Learn about Netskope Partners
Group of diverse young professionals smiling

Next Gen SWG Use Case #6 – Protecting Users going Direct-to-Internet

Apr 29 2020

This is a series of articles focused on Next Gen SWG use cases. This is the final in a series of six use cases.

In my recent blog about advanced data protection, I covered how data protection requirements have evolved and how the SWG (secure web gateway) needs to also evolve to be effective in protecting data everywhere it goes. The final use case is centered around protecting users that are going direct-to-internet. This is arguably the most important use case I am covering in this blog series. We are at an inflection point where digital transformation, the explosion of cloud apps, and the dramatic rise in mobile workers are rendering the traditional “traffic backhauling” approach ineffective at providing fast and secure access to internet resources.  

It is still common today to backhaul traffic from remote workers and branch offices over expensive MPLS circuits through security appliances located in the data center and then to a cloud or web destination. The obvious intent is to enable branch offices and remote workers to take advantage of the stack of security appliances that are physically located in the data center. There are four core challenges with this legacy approach. 

First, it is very expensive, as you are relying on high-cost MPLS circuits. Second, the user experience suffers because the hub-and-spoke architecture is adding additional latency, impacting user response time and there is typically a VPN connection that needs to be performed for remote workers. Third, the load at the data center is increased. Furthermore, in today’s remote worker dominated world, this is obviously top of mind as users need to be protected as they access the cloud and web while working out of their home office. The recent rise of remote workers is putting a strain on legacy remote access architectures and COVID-19 is amplifying the limitations of old school hub-and-spoke architectures. Last, but certainly not least the security stack sitting in the data center, whether it is a NGFW or SWG, is most likely not built to adequately protect against today’s cloud-enabled threats.

A more modern approach is to deploy a Next Gen SWG, like Netskope’s offering, that is cloud-native and can more effectively cover today’s cloud-enabled and advanced web threats. Deployment is elegant with options ranging from IPSEC/GRE tunnel configuration in the branches to integrating with an existing SD-WAN solution that is providing local internet breakouts. For remote workers, a lightweight steering client can optionally be deployed on managed devices and all the cloud and web traffic for that device is steered to the Netskope Security Cloud for visibility, control, and protection wherever the user goes. Dynamic steering also detects whether that user is in a remote location or in a branch office and will dynamically choose the steering method. The last key point is that the Netskope Security Cloud also runs on Netskope NewEdge, which is one of the world’s largest, fastest, and most reliable security networks. NewEdge overcomes the performance challenges that exist with the public internet to provide fast and secure access to the cloud and web for users connecting direct-to-internet from anywhere.

You can learn more about this Next Gen SWG use case and watch a demo here. Don’t forget to also consider the other use cases and associated requirements covered in this blog series.

author image
Bob Gilbert
As Vice President of Strategy and Chief Evangelist at Netskope, Bob is dedicated to helping clients transform their security and networking infrastructure to meet the demands of an ever-changing world.

Stay informed!

Subscribe for the latest from the Netskope Blog