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Netskope for Retail and Hospitality

Understand how cloud services and websites are being used in your environment, and enforce adaptive access controls to restrict risky activities, prevent breaches, and protect against the loss of payment card data and other sensitive information.
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Maintain PCI-DSS compliance

Gain visibility and control over your cloud and web usage to prevent data exfiltration, loss and exposure of payment card data and other sensitive information, across your SaaS, IaaS, and web services, to ensure ongoing PCI-DSS compliance.

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The granular access you need

Assess risk

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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 PCI-DSS compliance, to govern access and 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

Protect data

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Identify payment card data and personally identifiable information (PII) stored in the cloud, as well as control data being uploaded, downloaded, and shared to prevent a breach of patient privacy.

  • Accurately detect PCI and other sensitive content
  • Support your data classification system
  • Protect sensitive data with strong encryption
  • Stop data exfiltration to personal cloud services to mitigate the risk of data breaches

Audit and report

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Create a granular, contextual audit trail of all your cloud activities to facilitate governance and reporting for PCI-DSS compliance, as well as other internal and external auditors.

  • 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 PCI-DSS compliance, to govern access and 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 payment card data and personally identifiable information (PII) stored in the cloud, as well as control data being uploaded, downloaded, and shared to prevent a breach of patient privacy.

  • Accurately detect PCI and other sensitive content
  • Support your data classification system
  • Protect sensitive data with strong encryption
  • Stop data exfiltration to personal cloud services to mitigate the risk of data breaches

Create a granular, contextual audit trail of all your cloud activities to facilitate governance and reporting for PCI-DSS compliance, as well as other internal and external auditors.

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

I love how Netskope surfaces all the information we need to track down an incident and get the right folks involved in remediation. This saves us a ton of time when time is of the essence.

SOC Analyst, Fortune 500 Retailer
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How does Netskope protect customer data, cardholder information, and PII in the cloud? link link

Retail and hospitality networks handle massive volumes of customer data daily. Netskope uses unified Data Loss Prevention (DLP)—powered by advanced data classifiers, exact data matching, and machine learning—to continuously scan data in motion and at rest. It monitors uploads, downloads, and shares across all cloud and web applications, immediately blocking attempts to exfiltrate credit card numbers or customer loyalty records to personal accounts or unauthorized third-party tools.

 

Retail and hospitality networks handle massive volumes of customer data daily.

How does the platform simplify and maintain strict PCI-DSS compliance? link link

Instead of relying on manual, point-in-time checks, Netskope provides continuous monitoring tailored to PCI-DSS requirements. The platform decodes Layer 8 application data to understand how cloud services are interacting with cardholder data, rather than just tracking who logged in. It restricts non-compliant user behaviors, enforces policy-based data isolation, and generates automated compliance audit trails so your governance team can instantly provide clear evidence to external auditors.

 

Instead of relying on manual, point-in-time checks, Netskope provides continuous monitoring tailored to PCI-DSS requirements.

How do retail security teams leverage Netskope to slash mean time to resolution (MTTR)? link link

Point security tools scatter logs across different systems, wasting crucial minutes during an active data breach. Netskope solves this by providing granular, contextual audit trails of all cloud, web, and SaaS activity in a single console. It captures user identity, location, device health, and the exact files involved. As a SOC Analyst at a Fortune 500 Retailer noted, “I love how Netskope surfaces all the information we need to track down an incident… This saves us a ton of time when time is of the essence.”

 

Point security tools scatter logs across different systems, wasting crucial minutes during an active data breach.

What are "Adaptive Access Controls" and how do they handle high retail staff turnover? link link

Retail and hospitality workforces experience frequent seasonal turnover, making rigid, static security rules impractical. Netskope enforces Adaptive Access Controls that adjust in real time based on situational risk signals—such as user behavior anomalies, current device posture, and data sensitivity. For example, a store manager can be allowed to view shifts on a corporate app via a personal phone, while the system dynamically blocks them from downloading a full payroll or cardholder file to that same unmanaged device.

 

Retail and hospitality workforces experience frequent seasonal turnover, making rigid, static security rules impractical.

How does Netskope help corporate teams discover and manage "Shadow IT" across distributed properties? link link

Employees at individual storefronts or regional offices often adopt unauthorized cloud apps to manage schedules, menus, or local marketing campaigns. Netskope’s Cloud Confidence Index (CCI) continuously screens and risk-profiles over 85,000 cloud applications across 50+ objective criteria based on global safety standards. This enables central IT security teams to automatically discover unmanaged applications on the corporate network and use real-time coaching prompts to safely guide staff back to sanctioned enterprise tools.

Employees at individual storefronts or regional offices often adopt unauthorized cloud apps to manage schedules, menus, or local marketing campaigns.
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