Speee Boosts SaaS Productivity While Strengthening Security with Netskope

“Our mission is to build an infrastructure that can flexibly and quickly adapt to diversified business expansion and organizational growth. However, as SaaS usage increased across daily operations, it became difficult to track which users were accessing which cloud services—and how. What particularly concerned us was the use of personal accounts for cloud storage. We had limited means to confirm whether business‑critical data was being stored in the appropriate, governed locations.”

In addition, the team began to see clear limitations in their network architecture, which routed all traffic through an on‑premises data center. Matsumoto explains, “Even when accessing cloud services from outside the office, users had to connect through VPN and pass through our data center, and our resources were already strained. This not only caused slower performance but also continued to increase the operational and maintenance burden on the Information Systems team.”

As SaaS adoption grew, challenges became increasingly evident on both fronts—security risk visibility and network performance.

Among the candidates, Netskope was selected as the final choice. One of the decisive factors was the granularity of its visibility. Matsumoto explains “Compared to competing products, Netskope offered superior visibility—not only showing which SaaS applications were being used but also what actions were performed within those applications. Being able to track activities at the level of creating shared links or uploading files made a significant difference.”

Network performance was another evaluation criterion during the PoC.

“We measured actual latency across several products, and Netskope had the lowest latency and the fastest user experience,” Matsumoto says. “Since this directly impacts user productivity, it was a critical factor for us.”

Ease of administration also played a key role. “From an operational standpoint, the management console was intuitive and gave us a clear picture of what day‑to‑day administration would look like post‑deployment,” Matsumoto adds. “This usability further reinforced our decision to choose Netskope.”

These achievements were highly praised by company leadership, and Matsumoto—who led the project—was awarded the company‑wide MVP recognition.

Looking ahead, Speee aims to further strengthen its zero‑trust network environment while maintaining user autonomy and freedom. “By deepening the integration between Netskope and our existing security tools—such as EDR, EPP, and SIEM—we hope to unify our fragmented security measures and enhance our defensive posture as a whole,” Matsumoto explains.

As AI agents become increasingly embedded across internal operations, autonomously exchanging and processing data, Netskope will continue to play an essential role in enabling the coexistence of advanced AI utilization and strong security.