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Organizations need secure AI to move their business forward, but controls and guardrails must not require sacrifices in speed or user experience. Netskope can help you say yes to the AI advantage.
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Modern Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Dummies
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6 Reasons Universal ZTNA is a Smart Escape from VPN and NAC Chaos
Ditch the complexity of VPNs and NAC. Learn how Universal ZTNA secures every user and device with one consistent framework.
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Netskope For Manufacturing

Netskope helps the world’s largest and most demanding manufacturing companies securely adopt the cloud to streamline operations and compete at all levels.
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Ensure you understand what cloud and web services are in use and how they are being used, enforce access controls, protect sensitive data and restrict risky activities in the cloud.

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Netskope One Zero Trust Engine

Completely replace remote access VPNs with Netskope One Zero Trust Engine

Netskope One Zero Trust Engine adds software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) capabilities to zero trust network access (ZTNA) to provide secure and optimized access to all applications – legacy and modern. Seamlessly upgrade from the existing remote access VPN solutions and modernize connectivity for the hybrid workforce.

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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, so 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

Ensure compliance

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Understand activity-level usage of your cloud services and websites in the context of rules from regulatory bodies, like PCI-DSS, and govern access, activities and data in the cloud to ensure compliant usage.

  • Govern access, activities, and data across cloud and web
  • Build a detailed audit trail of cloud and web activities
  • Create regular reports for policy compliance
  • Govern usage across all cloud and web services
  • Restrict non-compliant activities

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Identify and protect the sensitive data, like design plans, stored in the cloud, as well as control 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

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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, so 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

Understand activity-level usage of your cloud services and websites in the context of rules from regulatory bodies, like PCI-DSS, and govern access, activities and data in the cloud to ensure compliant usage.

  • Govern access, activities, and data across cloud and web
  • Build a detailed audit trail of cloud and web activities
  • Create regular reports for policy compliance
  • Govern usage across all cloud and web services
  • Restrict non-compliant activities

Identify and protect the sensitive data, like design plans, stored in the cloud, as well as control 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

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

When we moved to the cloud, finding the best cloud DLP solution was my number one priority. Netskope exceeded our requirements in every way.

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How does Netskope protect sensitive manufacturing IP, CAD designs, and blueprints? Can Netskope secure the use of Generative AI tools for industrial engineering teams? How does Netskope replace legacy remote access VPNs without disrupting factory floor operations? How does the platform handle security across highly distributed plants and remote workforces? How does Netskope discover and govern "Shadow IT" across different manufacturing facilities?
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How does Netskope protect sensitive manufacturing IP, CAD designs, and blueprints? link link

Manufacturing engineers and product designers routinely share heavy files across cloud repositories and collaboration tools. Netskope uses advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP)—enhanced by machine learning, exact data matching, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for blueprints and technical schematics—to scan data in motion and at rest. It prevents staff or contractors from accidentally or maliciously uploading proprietary CAD designs to personal cloud drives, unauthorized personal emails, or unvetted external forums.

 

 Manufacturing engineers and product designers routinely share heavy files across cloud repositories and collaboration tools.

Can Netskope secure the use of Generative AI tools for industrial engineering teams? link link

Yes. While manufacturing organizations are rapidly adopting AI to optimize supply chains and automate design processes, pasting proprietary manufacturing logic or source code into public LLMs creates massive compliance and IP liabilities. Netskope One AI Security acts as an inline governance layer, enforcing real-time AI Guardrails. It automatically blocks sensitive data from being submitted into AI models while still allowing engineers to use the tools productively, ensuring company secrets are never ingested into public training models.

 

 Yes. While manufacturing organizations are rapidly adopting AI to optimize supply chains and automate design processes, pasting proprietary manufacturing logic or source code into public LLMs creates massive compliance and IP liabilities.

How does Netskope replace legacy remote access VPNs without disrupting factory floor operations? link link

Legacy VPNs grant broad, implicit network access upon a single login, creating a massive lateral movement risk where an attacker can breach a remote user and pivot directly into critical plant floor control systems. Netskope Universal ZTNA replaces clunky VPNs by providing strict, identity-based, least-privilege access. Remote engineers, plant operators, and third-party maintenance vendors are connected only to the specific application or machine they are authorized to look at—leaving the rest of the operational network completely invisible.

 

 Legacy VPNs grant broad, implicit network access upon a single login, creating a massive lateral movement risk where an attacker can breach a remote user and pivot directly into critical plant floor control systems.

How does the platform handle security across highly distributed plants and remote workforces? link link

Traditional security relies on “backhauling” plant traffic to a central corporate data center for inspection, which ruins application performance and creates operational bottlenecks. Netskope processes security at the edge via the NewEdge global private cloud, keeping latency to a single-digit millisecond range. Whether an engineer is troubleshooting a machine from home, working on-site at a major production plant, or connecting from a remote testing facility, they receive identical zero trust protections and cloud performance.

 

 Traditional security relies on "backhauling" plant traffic to a central corporate data center for inspection, which ruins application performance and creates operational bottlenecks.

How does Netskope discover and govern "Shadow IT" across different manufacturing facilities? link link

In large industrial environments, local plant managers or teams frequently adopt unapproved cloud apps to speed up operations. Netskope’s Cloud Confidence Index (CCI) continuously tracks and risk-profiles over 85,000 cloud services across 50+ security and compliance attributes. This allows corporate IT teams to automatically discover unmanaged applications running on the network, assess their safety, and use Real-Time User Coaching prompts to guide plant employees toward secure, company-sanctioned alternatives without halting daily productivity.

 In large industrial environments, local plant managers or teams frequently adopt unapproved cloud apps to speed up operations.
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