Cloud app use for productivity is exploding; Office365, Slack, Zoom, and other cloud collaboration tools used by students, faculty, and staff on and off campus. While everyone is trying to get work and research done, security teams still need to protect sensitive data. Netskope provides granular visibility and control of web and cloud usage, combined with comprehensive data and threat protection to safely enable students, faculty, and staff no matter where they are, what device they are using, or what they do.
Netskope can mitigate risk without impeding the openness, productivity and collaboration that institutions require. Common use cases: enabling safe collaboration via cloud/SaaS technologies, preventing sensitive data loss, and providing remote access to private applications — for managed or unmanaged devices. With Netskope, colleges and universities using Netskope can adhere to FERPA, GLBA, and HIPAA compliance.
Campuses are often full of student owned BYOD. Enabling productivity while mitigating threat and DLP risk on these unsecured devices is a challenge. Netskope provides API and reverse proxy support allowing colleges and universities to get activity level control of sensitive data such as PII and research enabling productivity without an agent mitigating the risk of sensitive data exfiltration. Allow BYOD devices to view and edit documents but prevent move, print, and download to safely enable work and collaboration.
A growing number of colleges and universities rely on cloud infrastructure platforms in Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS for cost savings, efficient campus-wide IT management, and storing/processing big data for research. Netskope’s public cloud security provides insight into sensitive data stored in blobs and buckets preventing oversharing. It also enforces compliance against standards for NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, CIS, and best practice benchmarks alerting on and fixing misconfigurations that lead to data loss or breaches.
Remove expensive legacy back hauling using VPNs and deliver a direct-to-net architecture using a cloud security platform. Netskope provides a global security cloud for securing and managing remote workers’ access to websites and cloud applications. Additionally Netskope seamlessly and securely connects remote workers to their private applications in the data center or public cloud using Zero Trust Network Access.
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Understand and control the websites and cloud applications being accessed by your remote workers. Learn what level of risk those cloud applications pose, and how remote workers are using those apps.
Safely access cloud, web, and private applications using a high-performance, scalable global network infrastructure (Netskope NewEdge). Guarantee that students, staff, and faculty experience seamless and low-latency connectivity wherever they are.
Advanced DLP policies and reports help ensure regulatory compliance for FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA and more by monitoring and preventing sensitive data from being accessed and uploaded by students, faculty, and staff to unmanaged cloud applications or websites.
Detect and stop malware and cloud-enabled threats across your environment in real-time. Mitigate data exfiltration and insider threats, alert on account compromise and highlight anomalous user behavior.
Provide direct, seamless and secure remote access to applications in public cloud environments or data centers without unnecessary exposure to the internet.
Consolidate point solutions and reduce the complexity and cost of managing multiple disparate products. Protect your environment with a single, intuitive console and an integrated cloud-native platform to simplify deployment, operations and policy enforcement.
Understand and control the websites and cloud applications being accessed by your remote workers. Learn what level of risk those cloud applications pose, and how remote workers are using those apps.
Safely access cloud, web, and private applications using a high-performance, scalable global network infrastructure (Netskope NewEdge). Guarantee that students, staff, and faculty experience seamless and low-latency connectivity wherever they are.
Advanced DLP policies and reports help ensure regulatory compliance for FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA and more by monitoring and preventing sensitive data from being accessed and uploaded by students, faculty, and staff to unmanaged cloud applications or websites.
Detect and stop malware and cloud-enabled threats across your environment in real-time. Mitigate data exfiltration and insider threats, alert on account compromise and highlight anomalous user behavior.
Provide direct, seamless and secure remote access to applications in public cloud environments or data centers without unnecessary exposure to the internet.
Consolidate point solutions and reduce the complexity and cost of managing multiple disparate products. Protect your environment with a single, intuitive console and an integrated cloud-native platform to simplify deployment, operations and policy enforcement.
Netskope One is a cloud-native platform that offers converged security and networking services to enable your SASE and zero trust transformation. Through its patented Zero Trust Engine, Intelligent SSE, and the NewEdge network, Netskope One makes it easy for our customers to defend their businesses and protect their valuable data while delivering a phenomenal user experience.
Universities act as massive data centers housing student academic histories (FERPA), financial aid and tuition payment records (GLBA), and campus health clinic data (HIPAA). Netskope One automatically wraps real-time zero trust safeguards around these sensitive vectors. By analyzing traffic inline, the platform blocks unauthorized downloads, tracks file sharing, and builds an immutable, audit-ready compliance ledger so your team can easily satisfy strict federal GRC reviews.
You cannot force thousands of rotating students to install corporate security agents on their personal laptops, phones, or tablets. Netskope solves this by deploying in an agentless Reverse Proxy and API-integrated mode. When a student logs into the university’s Microsoft 365, Canvas, or cloud environment from a personal device, Netskope applies dynamic, context-aware guardrails. For example, a student can be allowed to view and edit an assignment online, while the system automatically blocks downloading or syncing sensitive university records onto that unmanaged endpoint.
Advanced persistent threats frequently target universities to siphon off cutting-edge medical, engineering, or defense research data stored across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Netskope’s Public Cloud Security continuously monitors your cloud storage buckets and compute blobs. It instantly discovers overshared files or architectural misconfigurations that could leak IP, alerts the security team, and autonomously enforces compliance against NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, and CIS benchmarks.
A blunt “block-all” approach completely breaks the open communication model that academic environments require. Instead of issuing broad restrictions across collaboration tools like Slack, Teams, or Zoom, Netskope uses Granular Activity Control. It decodes application behavior to allow standard research discussions and student collaboration to proceed completely unimpeded, while simultaneously applying inline Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to intercept the specific moment a user attempts to upload unauthorized PII, social security numbers, or grading sheets.
Legacy VPNs backhaul remote student and faculty traffic through choked central network hubs, degrading connection performance and creating a massive lateral movement risk if a single student account is compromised. Netskope Universal ZTNA replaces clunky legacy VPN setups with identity-based, direct-to-application connectivity via the high-performance NewEdge global network. Users are securely mapped directly to the specific library database, registration system, or server they need—leaving the rest of the campus network completely invisible to threats.
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