Netskope vs Forcepoint

Forcepoint’s legacy web security is riddled with blind spots

Your business is shifting over to the cloud, so why would you build your security infrastructure for the web only?

Here are five limitations of Forcepoint web security:

Limited proxy visibility

Supports a limited amount of apps for inline visibility when the average organization uses over 2,415 apps and cloud services. The default is allow/deny policy controls with limited risk ratings for web security.

Appliance limitations

Limited compute capacity for inspecting encrypted traffic, hosting advanced threat defenses, and storing logs and metadata. Appliances are also often last in line for updates after cloud services.

DLP silo

While basic DLP is integrated for web security, full enterprise DLP is another solution silo, console, policy, and administration effort. Data flowing in thousands of apps has limited visibility for their DLP rules and policies.

Remote users

Requires two agents for cloud access and remote protection, plus a limited number of points of presence (PoPs) for global access.

Solution suite

Lacks full integration of one console with a unified policy for secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), data loss prevention (DLP), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) capabilities.

Netskope One

Solve your SASE and Zero Trust transformation challenges with one platform

Netskope One is a cloud-native platform that offers converged security and networking services to enable your Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust transformation. Using its patented Zero Trust Engine, Intelligent Security Services Edge (SSE) components, and the NewEdge network, Netskope One makes it easy for you to defend your business and protect your valuable data while delivering a phenomenal user experience.

Solution brief

Protect your business in real-time with continuous adaptive trust

Our Zero Trust Engine continually gathers and monitors risk telemetry associated with users, data, devices, and applications. This process establishes continuous adaptive trust, providing IT admins with exceptional contextual awareness.

Empowered by the breadth and depth of contextual insights, IT admins can implement highly precise and granular policy decisions that dynamically adjust to the changing risk landscape. Continuous adaptive trust signifies a shift away from the traditional binary approach of block or allow in policy enforcement, offering a more sophisticated and nuanced execution of zero trust.

Drive your business forward with lightning speed and dependable resilience

Security often comes at the detriment of performance and the user experience, but not with Netskope. With our expansive NewEdge network and private cloud infrastructure, users benefit from fast, reliable access backed by a seamless user experience. Provisioning full compute capabilities in every one of our 72 regions and backed by over 3,000 network peering adjacencies, NewEdge ensures zero performance trade-offs. This allows security deployment wherever your people and devices are, eliminating reliance on virtual points of presence or backhauling, resulting in faster connectivity to any application and delivering exceptional user experience.

In addition, our zero trust engine conducts single-pass inspection of traffic with an unmatched average scan time of under 15 milliseconds, minimizing latency and optimizing availability.

Outsmart the risk landscape with AI-powered data and threat detection

We are at the forefront of using advanced AI/ ML technology to enhance data protection and fortify defenses against cloud security threats.

With over 3000 advanced data classifiers and 20 patented AI/ML detection techniques, our Intelligent SSE vigilantly monitors sensitive data, including data interactions with AI chatbots, and analyzes patterns and behaviors among users to establish a baseline for normal behavior and identity a wide range of evasive and never-seen-before threats.

To protect sensitive data exposure from generative AI, our Intelligent SSE blends data protection techniques with innovative controls to precisely classify and dynamically manage secure usage of generative AI applications.

The benefits of switching to Netskope from Forcepoint

When you expand your web security into the cloud you take control of everything you once left to chance.

Decipher all major SaaS and cloud applications

Unlike other SSE offerings that bypass critical applications that are both a source of malware and data loss.

Continuously assess risks

Comprehensively assess risks in real-time with unequaled trust scoring of more than 75K applications using 50+ attributes.

Protect sensitive data

Protect sensitive data with our comprehensive cloud-delivered DLP, powered by over 3,000 data identifiers and 20+ AI/ML patents – more than any other SSE solution.

Block threats everywhere

Reduce data breaches or data loss incidents with industry-leading threat and data protection across the web, cloud and all your private apps.

Unlock peak performance with Industry-best SLAs

Achieve the fastest end-to-end round trip times for web, cloud, and SaaS with low, typically single-digit millisecond latency on-ramps for users accessing from anywhere.

Quickly on-ramp everything

Quickly on-ramp every site, cloud, remote user or IoT device to the cloud with the widest range of deployment options.

View and manage UX end-to-end

Promptly automate diagnosis, management, and remediation of events impacting user experience, application performance, and availability with Proactive DEM.

Optimize user access

Securely optimize user access by steering all access through adaptive policy enforcement and leverage real-time coaching to alert users of potential data exposure.

Comply with industry regulations

Attain the highest degree of data protection efficacy with advanced, AI-powered DLP for compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPPA and others.

Safely enable GenAI apps

Classify ChatGPT and other GenAI apps, view their usage, and dynamically apply granular access.

Redefine data protection and threat defense

Automate data classification, threat protection, and traffic prioritization with Skope AI.

Gartner report

Netskope is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge—maintaining a Leader position since the report's inception in 2022.

Netskope SSE protects against advanced and cloud-enabled threats and safeguards data across all vectors (any cloud, any app, any user). A single-pass architecture delivers a fast user experience and simplified operations. Netskope One Security Service Edge puts cloud and data security first

In the latest report, you’ll discover why we were recognized as A Leader Again and placed Furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.

You will also get an understanding of:

The broad market trends driving adoption of SSE
The criteria used to position vendors within the Magic Quadrant
The approach taken by vendors when converging secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), and zero trust network access (ZTNA) components

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what sets us apart and what it means for your organization.

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2025 Gartner magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge (SSE)

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Netskope vs. Forcepoint