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Netskope for
Utility Companies

Ensure you understand how cloud and web services are being used, so you can enforce adaptive access controls, protect sensitive data, and restrict risky activities to support compliance with standards from the payment card industry (PCI), Federal Energy Reliability Corporation (FERC), and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
Netskope for utility companies

Secure cloud usage to help you transform your utility

Netskope ensures you can find, assess, and enforce policies that govern usage and secure sensitive data in all your SaaS, IaaS, and web environments. Use the cloud to transform your utility – deliver reliable energy services, measure performance, provide resources to employees in the field, and manage customer and billing information.

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Key statistics

Why utility companies choose Netskope


95%


of Netskope users said the top criteria for selecting Netskope over other security vendors was that "Netskope delivers the best security for my use cases."

Source: UserEvidence survey

66%


of Netskope users said the top criteria for selecting Netskope over other security vendors was that "Netskope delivers the best security for my use cases."

Source: UserEvidence survey

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you need

Assess risk

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Understand and manage the risks associated with your growing cloud and web usage.

  • Gain granular visibility into your cloud and web usage, so you can strike the right balance between risks and expected business benefits
  • Discover which cloud services and websites are being used
  • Assess enterprise-readiness of cloud services
  • See usage details about users, activities, and data

Ensure compliance

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Understand activity-level usage of your cloud services and websites in the context of rules from regulatory bodies, like FERC, NERC and PCI, and govern access, activities and data in the cloud to ensure compliant usage.

  • Govern access, activities, and data across cloud and web
  • Build a detailed audit trail of cloud and web activities
  • Create regular reports for policy compliance
  • Govern usage across all cloud and web services
  • Restrict non-compliant activities

Protect data

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Identify and protect sensitive data, like payment card information stored in the cloud, as well as control data being uploaded, downloaded, and shared.

  • Accurately detect PCI and other sensitive content
  • Support your data classification system
  • Protect sensitive data with strong encryption
  • Stop data exfiltration to personal cloud services
  • Prevent users from uploading content to poorly rated cloud services

Control access

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Prevent risky activities in sanctioned and unsanctioned services, as well as web traffic, with granular policies that take into account user, service, device, location, activity, and content.

  • Enforce granular policies that take into account user, service, device, location, activity, and content
  • Control activities by risk level, by defining policies based on the Cloud Confidence Level in the Netskope CCI
  • Set different policies based on managed and unmanaged devices and allow varying levels of access
  • Enforce policies across sanctioned or unsanctioned cloud services and websites based on user, service, instance, service category, device, location, activity, and content

Understand and manage the risks associated with your growing cloud and web usage.

  • Gain granular visibility into your cloud and web usage, so you can strike the right balance between risks and expected business benefits
  • Discover which cloud services and websites are being used
  • Assess enterprise-readiness of cloud services
  • See usage details about users, activities, and data

Understand activity-level usage of your cloud services and websites in the context of rules from regulatory bodies, like FERC, NERC and PCI, and govern access, activities and data in the cloud to ensure compliant usage.

  • Govern access, activities, and data across cloud and web
  • Build a detailed audit trail of cloud and web activities
  • Create regular reports for policy compliance
  • Govern usage across all cloud and web services
  • Restrict non-compliant activities

Identify and protect sensitive data, like payment card information stored in the cloud, as well as control data being uploaded, downloaded, and shared.

  • Accurately detect PCI and other sensitive content
  • Support your data classification system
  • Protect sensitive data with strong encryption
  • Stop data exfiltration to personal cloud services
  • Prevent users from uploading content to poorly rated cloud services

Prevent risky activities in sanctioned and unsanctioned services, as well as web traffic, with granular policies that take into account user, service, device, location, activity, and content.

  • Enforce granular policies that take into account user, service, device, location, activity, and content
  • Control activities by risk level, by defining policies based on the Cloud Confidence Level in the Netskope CCI
  • Set different policies based on managed and unmanaged devices and allow varying levels of access
  • Enforce policies across sanctioned or unsanctioned cloud services and websites based on user, service, instance, service category, device, location, activity, and content

Netskope Borderless SD-WAN stands apart from everything in the market. Whether it’s addressing multi-cloud scenarios, connecting equipment in the field, or providing a simple ‘plug-and-play’ solution for the hybrid workforce, we’re pleased with what we can accomplish and are excited to see where Netskope will take this integration with their SSE platform.

Mahesh Gopalakrishnan
VP IT
, PDC Energy
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Netskope One Platform

Netskope One is a cloud-native platform that offers converged security and networking services to enable your SASE and zero trust transformation.

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How does Netskope One guarantee compliance with NERC CIP and FERC mandates? link link

Compliance is built directly into the data path. Netskope One provides continuous, real-time enforcement and immutable activity logs mapped to NERC CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) and FERC requirements. By intercepting and decoding all web, SaaS, and cloud traffic, the platform verifies that only authorized personnel can touch compliance-impacted environments, providing the audit-ready telemetry needed to prove grid resilience to federal regulators.

 

Compliance is built directly into the data path. Netskope One provides continuous, real-time enforcement and immutable activity logs mapped to NERC CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) and FERC requirements.

Can Netskope protect critical customer billing, PII, and smart meter data? link link

Yes. Utilities process immense volumes of consumer billing and smart meter architecture data daily. Netskope deploys inline Data Loss Prevention (DLP)—powered by machine learning and over 3,000 specific data classifiers—to inspect traffic across SaaS, web, and infrastructure environments. It automatically stops the unauthorized transfer of payment card numbers or PII, allowing your team to satisfy PCI DSS standards while keeping essential consumer operations running smoothly.

 

Yes. Utilities process immense volumes of consumer billing and smart meter architecture data daily.

How does Netskope secure field workers and remote crews accessing grid operations? link link

Field technicians and emergency line crews need secure access to operational schematics from bucket trucks and remote substations. Netskope Borderless SD-WAN replaces vulnerable legacy VPN architectures with high-performance, resilient connectivity. It integrates natively into the Netskope One SASE framework, ensuring that a field worker connecting from a cellular link receives the exact same zero trust access controls and deep threat protection as an analyst sitting at corporate headquarters.

 

Field technicians and emergency line crews need secure access to operational schematics from bucket trucks and remote substations.

How does the platform defend utility environments against sophisticated nation-state malware? link link

Modern cyber threats targeting infrastructure routinely exploit encrypted cloud channels and trusted SaaS apps to slip past old-school perimeters. The Netskope Zero Trust Engine decrypts and inspects multi-cloud traffic exactly once at the edge via the NewEdge global private network. It uses real-time behavioral analytics (UEBA) and advanced sandboxing to spot zero-day malware payloads or anomalous data staging, isolating threats before an attacker can move laterally into operational systems.

 

Modern cyber threats targeting infrastructure routinely exploit encrypted cloud channels and trusted SaaS apps to slip past old-school perimeters.

Why do utility providers choose Netskope over legacy point-product security stacks? link link

Fragmented tools create visibility blind spots that utilities simply cannot afford. Netskope One converges Secure Web Gateway (SWG), CASB, Universal ZTNA, and SD-WAN into a single cloud-native architecture managed from a single console. In an independent UserEvidence survey, 95% of customers cited “best security for my use cases” as their top reason for choosing Netskope. The platform replaces operational complexity with uniform zero trust guardrails across your entire IT, IoT, and OT landscape.

Fragmented tools create visibility blind spots that utilities simply cannot afford.
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