Today we are very excited to unveil Netskope One, which is our new name for the full range of market-leading Netskope capabilities that are contained in, and delivered by, a single platform. Netskope One enables security, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams to reduce risk, cost, and complexity, protecting and accelerating everything to everywhere. Not only can we offer these unique capabilities; crucially, we are the only vendor that can deliver them all in a single platform.
This is the culmination of years of integration and innovation from our engineering and operations teams, and the continued expansion of our platform through both homegrown innovation and strategic acquisition. Today, Netskope One uniquely combines secure remote user access to web, cloud, and private apps, alongside endpoint DLP and endpoint SD-WAN. Now that we have all of these capabilities in one platform, engine, network, client and gateway, the name Netskope One says it best.
Why is this so important now? My conversations with more than 3,000 Netskope customers—and with those about to become our customers—inevitably lead back to one, or often all of these truths:
- Most ”zero trust strategies” feel intangible or even abstract, and aren’t organized with data protection in mind. This leaves organizations thinking that although a lot of what zero trust and SASE can offer sounds good “on paper,” they’re missing how to practically apply these concepts to what they should buy, what they should integrate, and how they should staff it.
- Everything wants to connect to everything else, everywhere—and AI is further driving this goal. Any security or networking solution that isn’t designed and built for this inevitability is already inadequate.
- More than 50% of all threats come from the cloud, but many organizations can’t currently inspect the most prevalent or important traffic from applications such as Microsoft 365, which leaves their technology full of blind spots, and, unfortunately, their data exposed.
- All business leaders want to propel growth, stay competitive, reduce risk, and lower their costs. Many have become resigned to only being able to achieve some of those goals with their technology purchases. We explain Netskope One in terms of what it (and we) can do to help all of those goals.
The Heart of the Platform
Frequent readers of my updates here will remember the origin story of Netskope technology; drawn on a napkin (which I still have) and predicated on the idea that the use of cloud applications and ‘work from anywhere’ in business would take hold and grow a lot faster than many anticipated at the time. At least 8 out of every 10 CIOs and CISOs I spoke to back then told us we were crazy, and maybe they were right (in a good way!). But we believed that the risks of using so many cloud and SaaS applications, and working outside of your physical office, would quickly leave then-current security technology behind. We also believed that it wouldn’t go far enough to just improve that aging technology with some extra cloud-centric bells and whistles. We had to rethink the entire enterprise strategy for protecting critical data from threats.
At the heart of Netskope One sits the Netskope Zero Trust Engine. Originally created to facilitate deep visibility into (and control over) SaaS and web apps, today the Zero Tru