Netskope for Amazon Web Services

Get an understanding of your risk exposure, detect misconfigurations, inventory assets, scan S3 buckets, enforce compliance standards, and protect against insider threats and malware within your Amazon Web Services.

Solution brief

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Enhance and protect your AWS environment

Easily gain detailed visibility into AWS, and other cloud platforms, to identify and mitigate risk. Gain insights into the location and exposure of all of your sensitive data, as well as vulnerabilities and threats within AWS, so you can take action and protect critical data and services.

Netskope supports
AWS AppFabric launch

Netskope uses AI to help detect and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3 by AWS AppFabric. A new service from AWS, AppFabric natively connects SaaS productivity and security applications to each other, automatically normalizing application data for administrators to set common policies, and empowering employees to get answers quickly.

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AWS Partner Security Software Competency

Top use cases

Audit and monitor security configurations

Continuously monitor security configurations for resources in AWS to identify inaccuracies, inadvertent data exposure and more. Automatically remediate incidents and utilize predefined workflows to expedite operations.

Maintain compliance and best practices

Monitor and actively enforce standards compliance with industry regulations and best practices, including NIST, PCI DSS, CIS benchmarks, AWS best practices and more.

Find and protect all your sensitive data

Scan Amazon S3 buckets for sensitive content and apply cloud data protection policies to prevent unauthorized access and activity – such as inadvertent public exposure – then coach, notify, or block activity, based on user, location, and device type used.

Detect and stop data exfiltration

Monitor data in motion in real time to detect and prevent data exfiltration from managed S3 buckets to unmanaged S3 buckets or to other third-party storage services – then coach, notify, or block activity, as appropriate. (See the demo)

Detect and stop threats and malware

Detect and block malware hiding in data at rest in your S3 buckets. Prevent malware from going to and from S3 buckets by enforcing policies using real-time, multi-layered threat defenses.

Detect "shadow IaaS" services and protect against risky usage with real-time controls

Get reports on unmanaged, unapproved services within AWS and then create and enforce policies restricting use of these unapproved services with real time granular controls.

Monitor and actively enforce standards compliance with industry regulations and best practices, including NIST, PCI DSS, CIS benchmarks, AWS best practices and more.

Detect and block malware hiding in data at rest in your S3 buckets. Prevent malware from going to and from S3 buckets by enforcing policies using real-time, multi-layered threat defenses.

Get reports on unmanaged, unapproved services within AWS and then create and enforce policies restricting use of these unapproved services with real time granular controls.

The ability to run AWS Workspaces through the NPA is critical. Our engineers use AWS for pretty much everything, so it’s great we can send that traffic through Netskope. The control provided by NPA is also key.

Charbel Boutros - Senior Security Engineer, Zip
Source: User Evidence

How Netskope protects
AWS

Continuous security assessment of AWS services

Use a single, intuitive console to monitor and audit the security configurations, resources, and services in AWS, as well as other public clouds. Assess numerous AWS services such as EC2 instances, ELB, Route53 DNS, S3 storage buckets, RDS, IAM, RedShift Clusters and more.

Continuously monitors and audits your cloud configurations, using CIS Benchmarks and best practices
Offers role-based access controls (RBAC) dedicated to AWS use cases
Identifies and remediates misconfigurations that could inadvertently expose resources to the Internet and make them vulnerable to attack
Provides automated workflows and expert recommendations to improve security posture and ensure compliance
Offers predefined and custom compliance reports for auditors and internal teams

Advanced data loss prevention (DLP)

Identify and protect data at rest stored in Amazon S3 buckets even if the data is used by unmanaged devices or unmanaged, different IaaS apps. Monitor and control data in motion in real time between AWS and third-party IaaS services – enhancing visibility into cloud native audit logs, VPC flow logs and other data sources.

Protects your data at rest and data in motion
Offers predefined regulatory and best practices compliance templates
Uses 3000+ language-independent data identifiers to inspect 1400+ file types
Identifies and blocks any attempts by users to upload data to an unmanaged storage bucket or blob, whether via the cloud provider’s GUI or executing a programmatic copy and sync in the CLI
Feeds API-based insights into Netskope Security Cloud policies for inline enforcement
Includes file and binary fingerprinting as well as Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Provides exact data matching for structured content
Uses machine learning based document and image classification for high efficiency

Real time inline visibility and control

Monitor and protect your AWS resources in real time using granular controls that identify and restrict access between managed and unmanaged “shadow IaaS” services. See and control activities in real time across your clouds.

Enhances visibility into cloud and data activity using a combination of both real-time and API-enabled controls
Decodes activities in real-time using Netskope One Zero Trust Engine and places activity-level restrictions for users, groups, and OUs across a 80+ public cloud services
Provides visibility and control of actions performed via the cloud provider’s management console and CLI

Insider threat protection

Detect and stop threats and data loss from malicious insiders accessing S3 buckets using a unique combination of API-enabled and inline controls. Detect and stop insider threats in AWS.

Uses UEBA to defend against insider threats such as data exfiltration, compromised credentials and malware
Identifies and prevents malicious activity and anomalies like bulk downloads or copies of data – whether using the the AWS console, CLI or third-party app

Advanced threat protection (ATP)

Utilize multi-layer threat detection including anti-virus, anti-malware, user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), heuristic analysis, sandboxing and more, to uncover elusive and advanced attacks within AWS. Detect and stop threats in the cloud.

Provides automated policies and workflows for real-time response to stop or reverse the effects of cloud threats
Conducts real-time, full file inspection to detect and block malware
Provides rich metadata for SOC investigations and threat hunting
Utilizes 40+ threat intelligence (TI) feeds, plus custom IOC hash and URL feeds, and shares TI via STIX/TAXII formats
Utilizes machine learning anomaly detection to expedite and simplify threat response
Offers an open REST API for EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and 3rd party integrations

Secure access to private applications

Protect and secure access to private applications within AWS using zero trust network access (ZTNA) capabilities to mitigate public exposure of private applications while avoiding the need to inefficiently “hairpin” access back through a corporate data center.

Netskope One Private Access secures access to applications in public clouds.

Provides secure connectivity between remote users’ devices and private applications using end-to-end TLS (v1.3) encrypted tunnels
Supports multiple application access methods including browser-based (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS) and non-web / thick applications (e.g. SSH, RDP)
Ensures only authenticated and authorized users can gain access to select private applications
Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and Single Sign-On (SSO) providers to understand users, groups and organizational units
Ensures that only corporate, managed devices meeting a specific security posture can access private applications.
Provides inline, granular policies for restricting or allowing access to private applications based on criteria including User, Group or Organizational Unit (OU); Device Classification; or Operating System
Offers optimal routing through Netskope NewEdge – a low-latency, high-capacity, scalable global network infrastructure

Continuously monitors and audits your cloud configurations, using CIS Benchmarks and best practices
Offers role-based access controls (RBAC) dedicated to AWS use cases
Identifies and remediates misconfigurations that could inadvertently expose resources to the Internet and make them vulnerable to attack
Provides automated workflows and expert recommendations to improve security posture and ensure compliance
Offers predefined and custom compliance reports for auditors and internal teams

Protects your data at rest and data in motion
Offers predefined regulatory and best practices compliance templates
Uses 3000+ language-independent data identifiers to inspect 1400+ file types
Identifies and blocks any attempts by users to upload data to an unmanaged storage bucket or blob, whether via the cloud provider’s GUI or executing a programmatic copy and sync in the CLI
Feeds API-based insights into Netskope Security Cloud policies for inline enforcement
Includes file and binary fingerprinting as well as Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Provides exact data matching for structured content
Uses machine learning based document and image classification for high efficiency

Enhances visibility into cloud and data activity using a combination of both real-time and API-enabled controls
Decodes activities in real-time using Netskope One Zero Trust Engine and places activity-level restrictions for users, groups, and OUs across a 80+ public cloud services
Provides visibility and control of actions performed via the cloud provider’s management console and CLI

Detect and stop threats and data loss from malicious insiders accessing S3 buckets using a unique combination of API-enabled and inline controls. Detect and stop insider threats in AWS.

Uses UEBA to defend against insider threats such as data exfiltration, compromised credentials and malware
Identifies and prevents malicious activity and anomalies like bulk downloads or copies of data – whether using the the AWS console, CLI or third-party app

Provides automated policies and workflows for real-time response to stop or reverse the effects of cloud threats
Conducts real-time, full file inspection to detect and block malware
Provides rich metadata for SOC investigations and threat hunting
Utilizes 40+ threat intelligence (TI) feeds, plus custom IOC hash and URL feeds, and shares TI via STIX/TAXII formats
Utilizes machine learning anomaly detection to expedite and simplify threat response
Offers an open REST API for EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and 3rd party integrations

Netskope One Private Access secures access to applications in public clouds.

Provides secure connectivity between remote users’ devices and private applications using end-to-end TLS (v1.3) encrypted tunnels
Supports multiple application access methods including browser-based (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS) and non-web / thick applications (e.g. SSH, RDP)
Ensures only authenticated and authorized users can gain access to select private applications
Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and Single Sign-On (SSO) providers to understand users, groups and organizational units
Ensures that only corporate, managed devices meeting a specific security posture can access private applications.
Provides inline, granular policies for restricting or allowing access to private applications based on criteria including User, Group or Organizational Unit (OU); Device Classification; or Operating System
Offers optimal routing through Netskope NewEdge – a low-latency, high-capacity, scalable global network infrastructure