Creos implements granular cloud and web control for improved security and user experience

Creos operates within a highly regulated industry and Netskope is providing invaluable audit trails to allow the organisation to prove compliance both with industry specific ‘unbundling’ requirements and broader EU data protection regulation. Creos plans to build upon this, providing even greater support to the company’s CISO, for instance by taking advantage of Netskope’s ability to support data governance with insights and audits of cloud application security compliance.

“Our employees across the Encevo Group now have a seamless and consistent user experience, whether they are in the office or remote. Before, their experience was heavily dependent on location as we used separate setups to manage office and remote workers, but now everything goes through exactly the same channels. Remote workers are here to stay in our organisation and now our architecture no longer treats them as exceptions.”

Raphaël Rose explains that it is Netskope’s NewEdge infrastructure that ensures optimised performance times: “Netskope has direct peering relationships with our major technology vendors including AWS, Microsoft and Salesforce, so not only do we benefit from untangling complicated network architecture for remote workers, but even our office workers are fast-tracked to the internet or cloud app they need through these peering connections. It makes a notable difference.”

Creos’ goal is a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture, one that sees the merger of traditional WAN management and security capabilities into a unified whole – one that is built, implemented and managed using cloud- native architectures. With this in mind, the next step for Creos is Zero Trust Network Access, for which the company is assessing Netskope Private Access (NPA).

Creos turned to its trusted network security partner Snowball Technology for advice on how to proceed. Roland Schoenauen, Head of IT at Creos explains; “The team at Snowball Technology has an incredibly high level of security competence, both in technical knowledge and in areas such as policy and governance. Their recommendations are highly regarded by the team here.”