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Securely adopt the cloud to enhance productivity and deliver exceptional client services. Understand cloud and web service usage, enforce access controls, protect sensitive data and restrict risky activities in the cloud.
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Simplify quarantines and legal holds in the cloud

See how Netskope gives legal firms the ability to understand and control their cloud services, with powerful policy workflows, in conjunction with Office 365, that quarantine and enact legal holds to prevent data leakage and help with legal compliance and investigations.

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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, whether it’s specialized solutions for legal case management to general-purpose cloud services used for client collaboration and document management, to make sure 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

Protect data

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Identify and protect your data to ensure sensitive documents and client information isn’t inadvertently exposed by controlling data being uploaded, downloaded, and shared.

  • Accurately detect your sensitive content
  • Support your data classification system
  • Protect sensitive data with strong encryption
  • Stop data exfiltration to personal cloud services

Protect against advanced threats

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Inspects traffic that other security solutions cannot, such as sync clients, mobile apps, and TLS-encrypted cloud services and websites to identify and address threats.

  • Gain full visibility into your cloud and web services
  • Apply multi-layered detection and remediation to your cloud and web traffic
    • Uses machine learning, anti-malware and antivirus inspection, user behavior anomaly detection, heuristic analysis, sandbox analysis, and more
    • Identify malicious activity and anomalies (like data ex-filtration, bulk downloads, and shared credentials)
  • Respond quickly and thoroughly to threats

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Create a granular, contextual audit trail of all your cloud activities for audit, forensics, and compliance reporting purposes.

  • Create regular reports for auditors
  • Provide details about users, activities, and data
  • Drill down for further investigation

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

  • Gain granular visibility into your cloud and web usage, whether it’s specialized solutions for legal case management to general-purpose cloud services used for client collaboration and document management, to make sure 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

Identify and protect your data to ensure sensitive documents and client information isn’t inadvertently exposed by controlling data being uploaded, downloaded, and shared.

  • Accurately detect your sensitive content
  • Support your data classification system
  • Protect sensitive data with strong encryption
  • Stop data exfiltration to personal cloud services

Inspects traffic that other security solutions cannot, such as sync clients, mobile apps, and TLS-encrypted cloud services and websites to identify and address threats.

  • Gain full visibility into your cloud and web services
  • Apply multi-layered detection and remediation to your cloud and web traffic
    • Uses machine learning, anti-malware and antivirus inspection, user behavior anomaly detection, heuristic analysis, sandbox analysis, and more
    • Identify malicious activity and anomalies (like data ex-filtration, bulk downloads, and shared credentials)
  • Respond quickly and thoroughly to threats

Create a granular, contextual audit trail of all your cloud activities for audit, forensics, and compliance reporting purposes.

  • Create regular reports for auditors
  • Provide details about users, activities, and data
  • Drill down for further investigation

We were looking for a comprehensive solution that integrated with our existing security products to protect all cloud usage at our firm. Netskope fits that requirement and helps us secure all our sensitive information in the cloud.

Information Security Engineer, Corporate Law Firm
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How does Netskope protect strict attorney-client privilege and confidential case data in the cloud? How does Netskope handle automated cloud-based legal holds and quarantines? Can legal teams safely use Generative AI and automated AI contract analysis tools? How does Netskope prevent data exfiltration by departing lawyers or staff? How does the platform support strict client audit mandates and compliance reporting?
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How does Netskope protect strict attorney-client privilege and confidential case data in the cloud? link link

Legal professionals frequently handle sensitive case files, privileged communications, and intellectual property across diverse collaboration networks. Netskope uses advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP)—powered by exact data matching, structured content classifiers, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for scanned court documents—to monitor data in motion and at rest. It prevents staff from accidentally uploading confidential client data to unauthorized personal cloud drives, personal emails, or unvetted third-party tools, ensuring an airtight perimeter around client secrets.

 

 Legal professionals frequently handle sensitive case files, privileged communications, and intellectual property across diverse collaboration networks.

How does Netskope handle automated cloud-based legal holds and quarantines? link link

During active litigation or investigations, data integrity is everything. Netskope integrates deeply with cloud environments like Microsoft 365 to automate file quarantines and enforce strict legal holds directly at the cloud tier. Powerful backend policy workflows ensure that once a legal hold is initiated, files cannot be modified, deleted, or exfiltrated by individual users. This guarantees full evidentiary preservation without requiring manual, time-consuming intervention across thousands of individual user accounts.

 

 During active litigation or investigations, data integrity is everything.

Can legal teams safely use Generative AI and automated AI contract analysis tools? link link

Yes. Legal firms are rapidly adopting AI for case research, contract review, and automated brief writing. However, pasting client details into public LLMs is a massive breach of confidentiality. Netskope One AI Security acts as an inline governance layer. It applies real-time AI Guardrails that scan lawyer prompts and uploads, automatically blocking the accidental ingestion of sensitive client names, financial records, or privileged trade secrets into public AI training models. It allows your firm to safely leverage legal tech innovation without risking disbarment or data exposure.

 

 Yes. Legal firms are rapidly adopting AI for case research, contract review, and automated brief writing.

How does Netskope prevent data exfiltration by departing lawyers or staff? link link

When attorneys or paralegals change firms, there is a high risk of “client roster” or case file exfiltration. Netskope uses Instance Awareness to differentiate between your firm’s sanctioned corporate cloud repositories and an employee’s personal account (like a personal Dropbox or Gmail). Combined with AI-driven behavior analytics (UEBA), Netskope establishes normal behavior baselines and flags anomalies—such as a user bulk-downloading case files or migrating documents to personal storage before a resignation—allowing security teams to intercept and block the data transfer in real time.

 

 When attorneys or paralegals change firms, there is a high risk of "client roster" or case file exfiltration.

How does the platform support strict client audit mandates and compliance reporting? link link

Modern corporate clients demand proof that their data is secure. Netskope automatically logs a granular, immutable cloud audit trail of all web, cloud, and SaaS interactions, capturing detailed context (user identity, action type, specific data classification, device, and location). GRC teams can use out-of-the-box compliance templates to instantly generate traceable reports showing precisely how client data is ring-fenced, allowing your firm to seamlessly pass client security audits and satisfy strict regulatory inquiries.

 Modern corporate clients demand proof that their data is secure.
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