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Bellwether industry analyst reports continue to indicate the future direction for security service edge (SSE) solutions. The recently released report, The Forrester Wave™: Security Service Edge Solutions, Q1 2024, includes Netskope as a Leader and ranked it highest for in the Current Offering category. Beyond the short list of leaders, here is Netskope’s take on the report’s findings and key signals that will help you assess the right vendors to fit your strategic outcomes.
Netskope’s top-level review of the report considers the full integration of secure web gateway (SWG) and cloud access security broker (CASB) solutions with data protection as a critical difference-maker for SSE solutions. Having a heritage of protecting data makes a difference as it’s more than a checkbox feature or another acronym to list. In 2019 Netskope integrated its market-leading CASB and data protection solution with SWG capabilities to create a Next Generation SWG solution. While the label of “next generation” often just sounds like marketing, creating a fully integrated single-pass inspection point is what built the foundation for SSE visibility and control with a mind’s eye view on protecting data for web, SaaS, shadow IT, email, and endpoints. Netskope began that integration journey as far back as five years ago.
Threat protection is an important component and expected given the high percentage of hybrid and remote workers requiring SSE protection. Netskope research notes more than 60% of web traffic is now related to SaaS and cloud services, and where now more than 50% of threats are cloud-delivered. SSE vendors should provide inline threat efficacy testing results for real-time protection at T+0 and T+1-hour for various threat types including phishing and fileless attacks and beyond just malicious executable files. You can review Netskope’s recent AV-TEST results for January 2024 for