Securing Generative AI with Netskope One

Confidently adopt Generative AI with industry-leading protection.
As AI rapidly integrates into every corner of the enterprise, Netskope One, powered by the full range of SkopeAI innovations, helps organizations build a foundation of responsible Generative AI adoption, without slowing innovation.

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Secure Generative AI with safe use and total data control

In the age of generative AI, data security is a key concern for organizations to manage.Netskope One helps you confidently secure this evolving landscape with industry-leading SSE capabilities, providing the visibility, control, and Gen AI readiness to ensure you can say yes to AI usage in your organization.

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The challenge

98%

of users in an organization are using some sort of Gen-AI enabled application

72%

of generative AI use in the enterprise is shadow AI

54%

of organizations are running local genAI infrastructure

^{Source: Netskope Threat Labs, Cloud and Threat Report: Generative AI 2025}

Netskope helps you…

Create a consistent foundation of AI readiness

With advanced discovery, classification, and labeling, organizations can identify and manage data that may interact with LLMs, applications, or AI agents, creating a foundation for safe and responsible AI use and development.

Gain a comprehensive view of AI across the organization

Security teams can monitor employee activity, track personal and corporate instances, and understand their data at rest and in motion across managed and unmanaged environments.

Enforce granular protection with adaptive risk context

Move beyond simple allow-or-block controls by applying fine-grained policies based on user behavior and data sensitivity. Teams can also control specific actions such as uploading, downloading, copying, printing, and more within AI applications to reduce risk. Manage and prevent “shadow AI” adoption by guiding users toward approved tools such as enterprise versions of Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.

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Visibility into shadow AI

Identify AI use across all managed and unmanaged Saas applications. On the AI Dashboard, see the various applications used, the instance type, and what actions were taken, such as login, post, upload, download, etc.

Understand application risks

Netskope identifies and classifies risk for more than 82,000 public and private apps. Whether it’s a dedicated genAI tool or a traditional Saas application enhanced with genAI features, Netskope One provides you with detailed insights on risk characteristics, including if they use customer data for training, share data with third-parties, meet specific compliance requirements, and more, to help you make informed decisions about their use in your environment.

Protect sensitive data

With Netskope One DLP, leverage the largest catalog of over 3,000+ data classifiers and over 1800+ file types to proactively identify and protect your critical data.

Support safe AI training

Prevent sensitive or regulated data from unintentionally feeding into LLMs, whether directly, through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), or other AI methodologies. Netskope One DSPM identifies and flags at-risk data across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and on-prem sources.

With Netskope One DLP, leverage the largest catalog of over 3,000+ data classifiers and over 1800+ file types to proactively identify and protect your critical data.

Secure your organization’s use of ChatGPT Enterprise

With Netskope One, you can monitor and control how data is shared within the app, apply advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to safeguard sensitive information, and detect and block threats in real time with inline and API-based protection. Enforce compliance with governance and industry regulations, while enabling safe use of generative AI tools across your workforce.

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Key features

Netskope One offers a range of capabilities across the platform providing deep visibility into AI activity, enforcing granular data protection policies, and mitigating risks across public genAI tools.

Cloud Confidence Index (CCI)

Netskope Cloud Confidence Index (CCI) covers over 370 genAI apps and 82,000+ SaaS applications, helping organizations proactively understand AI-related risks, including data usage, third-party sharing, and model training behaviors. Leverage Netskope One CASB for genAI powered risk categorization of new SaaS applications.

Coach and pivot

Implement real-time user coaching to guide and educate users on safe data handling practices or redirect them to corporate sanctioned GenAI applications.

Instance awareness

Distinguish between different instances of the same SaaS application, such as personal versus corporate instances. Organizations can implement different policies based on the specific instance being accessed. For example, allow full access to corporate instances while restricting personal instances.

User and entity behavior analytics

Detect anomalies or misuse of AI tools with continuous behavior monitoring, powered by user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA).

Zero Trust Engine

Apply continuous, adaptive access controls based on user, device, risk, and AI app behavior, ensuring AI usage aligns with zero trust principles.

Implement real-time user coaching to guide and educate users on safe data handling practices or redirect them to corporate sanctioned GenAI applications.

Detect anomalies or misuse of AI tools with continuous behavior monitoring, powered by user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA).

Apply continuous, adaptive access controls based on user, device, risk, and AI app behavior, ensuring AI usage aligns with zero trust principles.

AI in the Fast Lane Roadshow

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Netskope’s AI in the Fast Lane roadshow brings together security professionals to discuss how organizations are using AI today, and how a comprehensive security strategy can create a smarter, safer, and future-proof model. This essential, interactive event is for networking and security practitioners and executives seeking to harness AI’s power while maintaining security and compliance.

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Cloud and Threat Report: Generative AI 2025

Explore emerging trends and pressing security challenges shaping the future of AI

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Resources

Navigating the Future: Securing & Governing Generative AI

As organizations race to adopt GenAI, the risks are evolving just as fast. Moderator Mike Matchett, Neil Thacker of Netskope, and AWS’s Vinit Anshuman break down the governance frameworks, security controls, and best practices needed to mitigate data exposure, bias, and shadow AI threats.

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AI and SaaS Will Make 2026 a Turning Point for Healthcare Security

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4 Security Considerations as AI Use Expands Across Teams

By Rich Beckett

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Platform, Products, & Services

Securing Agentic AI Before It Scales Past You

By Melody Nouri

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FAQs

How can organizations adopt generative AI tools safely? Can security tools block sensitive data from being sent in AI prompts? What is shadow AI and how is it managed by security teams? Does AI security protect against sophisticated AI generated threats? How does the network optimize performance for AI applications?

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How can organizations adopt generative AI tools safely?

Organizations can securely adopt AI by moving beyond fragmented tools to a unified platform strategy that provides visibility and protection across the entire AI ecosystem and the data flowing through it, including SaaS AI tools, embedded AI and copilots in SaaS, privately hosted models, and autonomous AI agents. Netskope One AI Security provides a high-performance zero trust architecture that grants deep visibility into AI interactions, securing users, applications, and agents against threats while protecting data with real-time data loss prevention (DLP) to ensure organizations use AI safely without exposing proprietary information or violating compliance requirements.

Can security tools block sensitive data from being sent in AI prompts?

Yes. Netskope One DLP and Netskope One AI Guardrails inspect every prompt and response in real time to prevent sensitive data such as source code, publicly identifiable information (PII), and intellectual property from leaking into public AI models. Traditional DLP struggles with AI because it relies on pattern matching (like regex), which fails when AI transforms or rewrites content while preserving its meaning. To solve this, Netskope uses semantic inspection that evaluates the actual intent and context of the data, regardless of how it is phrased. Security teams can also implement real-time user coaching, which uses pop-up messages to educate users who attempt to share sensitive data or visit unauthorized AI apps or sites, steering them toward corporate-approved AI tools.

Yes. Netskope One DLP and Netskope One AI Guardrails inspect every prompt and response in real time to prevent sensitive data such as source code, publicly identifiable information (PII), and intellectual property from leaking into public AI models.

What is shadow AI and how is it managed by security teams?

Shadow AI is the unmanaged and unauthorized use of AI applications by employees, and it is expanding rapidly. The risk now also extends to shadow agentic AI, where autonomous AI agents operate in the background without security oversight. Netskope tackles this by delivering granular visibility through application instance awareness, which separates personal AI accounts from corporate instances on the exact same platform. Using the Netskope Cloud Confidence Index (CCI), which evaluates the risk of over 85,000 SaaS and AI applications, security teams can dynamically assess app risks, block unauthorized usage, restrict high-risk activities, and gain comprehensive auditability over both human and machine-to-machine AI interactions.

Shadow AI is the unmanaged and unauthorized use of AI applications by employees, and it is expanding rapidly.

Does AI security protect against sophisticated AI generated threats?

Yes, and it actively protects against novel threats specifically targeting AI systems themselves. Through Netskope One Threat Protection and Netskope One AI Guardrails, the Netskope One platform uses machine learning and advanced heuristic analysis to block malware and malicious links hidden in AI interactions, while continuously monitoring traffic for AI-specific attacks like prompt injections and jailbreak attempts. Guardrails also acts as a content moderator, automatically filtering harmful, discriminatory, or copyrighted content in AI responses. For organizations developing their own private AI models, Netskope One AI Red Teaming automates adversarial simulations using over 18,000 scenarios to stress test models for vulnerabilities before they are deployed. All detected violations and threats are mapped to industry standards including MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs to dramatically accelerate incident investigation.

Yes, and it actively protects against novel threats specifically targeting AI systems themselves.

How does the network optimize performance for AI applications?

AI demands high-speed, dynamic data processing, making traditional security latency unacceptable. Netskope eliminates the security vs. speed trade-off dilemma through NewEdge AI Fast Path, which optimizes network routing to critical AI destinations across public and private clouds. The NewEdge Network features more than 120 data centers globally, placing users and AI agents milliseconds away from the LLMs, CPUs, and GPUs powering their workflows. Using NewEdge route control, the network makes tens of thousands of adjustments daily to bypass internet congestion and ISP issues. This infrastructure significantly reduces the time-to-first-token (TTFT) for conversational AI and provides the high-speed processing required for rapid, multi-prompt agentic workflows, ensuring security acts as an accelerator for AI innovation rather than a roadblock.

AI demands high-speed, dynamic data processing, making traditional security latency unacceptable.

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Securing Generative AI with Netskope One

Secure Generative AI with safe use and total data control

The challenge

Netskope helps you…

Create a consistent foundation of AI readiness

Gain a comprehensive view of AI across the organization

Enforce granular protection with adaptive risk context