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Cloud security, let alone SASE, doesn’t work without the underlying infrastructure that provides a consistent “baseload” to deliver the security capabilities integral to protecting users, sites, apps, and most importantly the data. This is more important than ever with security a board-level priority and organizations confronted with an ever-growing number of risks, ranging from the latest ransomware and phishing attacks to insider threats, exposure from data breaches, and lack of the proper controls around SaaS application access.
That’s why Netskope has invested over $100 million in its infrastructure, called NewEdge to power Netskope Security Cloud services including Cloud Firewall, Next Gen Secure Web Gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA) and more. With 2022 in the rearview mirror and the new year just beginning, it’s an appropriate time to recap the advancements Netskope has made with NewEdge and specifically call out four unarguable facts about Netskope’s SASE-ready infrastructure that make it hands down, second to none in the industry.
1. NewEdge has the best coverage
With a total of 24 new data centers added in the last 12 months, NewEdge is powered by full compute data centers in 67 regions worldwide as of January 2023. This includes data centers launched in the last 30 days in new regions such as Dublin, Ireland; Warsaw, Poland; plus Kolkata and Hyderabad, India. Plus, data centers in new physical locations within existing regions like Tokyo, Japan; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; and London, UK to create more in-region resilience and capacity. (The latest updates on NewEdge data centers can be found on the Netskope Trust Portal.)
On the coverage front, Netskope also took a major step forward in 2022 by enriching its current coverage of Mainland China—previously addressed via its Hong Kong data center—by launching multiple data centers in Shanghai, China with imminent plans to add data centers in Beijing and Shenzhen, China. Because security is a business imperative and protections need to be extended everywhere, this global coverage is important both for multinationals operating in Mainland China, as well as organizations embracing hybrid work and the work from anywhere (WFA) trend.
By achieving the 67-region milestone, Netskope is now unmatched across the entire security service edge (SSE) vendor landscape in terms of having the best coverage with full compute data centers in more regions–at the edge, as close to the users as possible–for real-time inline and performant cloud security. In order to claim this leadership title, Netskope compared itself to all of the vendors defined in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant™️ for SSE Report.
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