There is the marketing of secure access service edge (SASE), and then there is the actual integration of key capabilities that provide the benefits of less complexity, consolidation, and lower cost of operations a properly implemented SASE architecture provides. The integration of remote browser isolation (RBI) into the Netskope Security Cloud is another milestone in how Netskope is leading the way for the SASE journey, enabling Zero Trust, and helping enterprises embrace digital transformation projects.
Most RBI deployments involve forward proxy chaining configurations between siloed solutions, sometimes in different public cloud infrastructures where SLAs and health monitoring may vary. This configuration often includes specific certificates, allowing unique URLs, and extra policy configuration steps. If there are issues, then you have two separate solutions and perhaps multiple vendors involved, further complicating resolution.
There are other impacts of siloed solutions for RBI deployments including unique threat protection and DLP defenses. While your forward proxy is inspecting web and cloud traffic using the known threat and data protection defenses you have configured, any web traffic forward-proxy-chained to a unique RBI solution may traverse an entirely different set of threat and data protection defenses. This means administrators face multiple management consoles, policy engines, configurations, and locations for alerts to investigate.
Netskope simplifies the use of RBI for desired websites by using an “isolate” policy action within its secure cloud, providing one platform, one console, and one policy engine to make administration easy. With the complexity of forward proxy chaining configurations removed, you have one vendor, one set of threat and data defenses, and one place to investigate alerts. Netskope inline inspection with decrypting TLS includes user traffic for web, managed SaaS, shadow IT apps, public cloud services, and public-facing custom apps in the public cloud. That means all five lanes of user traffic in one SASE solution, with fully integrated defenses including RBI.