How Netskope’s Security Competency and AWS Integrations Help Address the Shared Responsibility Model

It’s no secret that Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to grow by leaps and bounds as organizations modernize their IT infrastructure by migrating apps and workloads to the cloud. And due to the AWS shared responsibility model of cloud security, a deep and broad ecosystem of security vendors has also grown up alongside AWS. In an effort to provide organizations with confidence in a given vendor’s ability to integrate tightly with their environment and provide reliable services, AWS introduced their Competency Program, with Security Competency as one of the specializations. 

The Security Competency designation is reserved for vendors who demonstrate deep technical expertise with security in AWS and proven success securing customer cloud journeys. Netskope is one of only 18 Amazon Partner Network (APN) vendors to have achieved competency in the area of Infrastructure Security, which encompasses “solutions including zero trust network access (ZTNA), secure web gateway (SWG), and cloud access security broker (CASB) to detect and protect your workloads from malicious traffic.” 

Protection for AWS Environments

Netskope provides the above protections and much, much more. Here are some of the important use cases that Netskope solves for AWS customers:

• Secure remote access to private applications – Remote and hybrid workers need to access business-critical applications from anywhere. Netskope Private Access (NPA), Netskope’s zero trust network access (ZTNA) solution, provides secure, granular access based on adaptive trust principles. This helps organizations reduce and improve security in several ways:
  • Users can only access the applications and resources they need when they need them. 
  • NPA improves security by replacing outdated VPN gateways and concentrators that expose their IP addresses to the public internet. 
  • Private resources are not visible on the public internet and are shielded from attackers.
• Discover shadow IT and block data exfiltration and threats – Netskope has multiple technologies that act in real-time to block movement of sensitive data, threats, unauthorized users, and access to rogue accounts. 
  • Netskope Inline CASB monitors traffic to and from AWS resources and applications to expose suspicious or malicious activity. 
  • Netskope’s Zero Trust Engine decodes activities in real-time to place activity-level restrictions on users, groups, and organizational units across more than 270 AWS services. 
  • Netskope’s Next Generation Secure Web Gateway (SWG) blocks malware, detects advanced threats, and controls cloud apps and services for users located anywhere, using any device. 
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