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In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the collaborative effort between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in issuing five joint Cybersecurity Information Sheets (CSIs) marks a significant milestone in guiding organizations towards secure cloud adoption. These documents serve as a testament to the critical nature of securing cloud services in an era where digital transformation is not just an option, but a necessity.

In today’s hybrid working environment, the software as a service (SaaS) apps employees use, and security service edge (SSE) solutions organizations use to secure it are dynamic and distributed. You sometimes need to deal with complex user experience issues without clear visibility into where they originate. Let’s take a look at some increasingly common situations and explore some proven ways IT leaders are regaining control.

Early in 2023 my colleague, and VP of Technology Integrations and Business Development, David Willis walked us through Realizing the True Power of Netskope Cloud Exchange. In the article, David painted the evolution of Cloud Exchange with a focus on how the Netskope Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) module has matured since it was released.

The latest example of an advanced persistent threat exploiting a legitimate cloud service to deliver a malicious payload was recently unearthed by researchers at Trend Micro.

Today we are very excited to unveil Netskope One, which is our new name for the full range of market-leading Netskope capabilities that are contained in, and delivered by, a single platform. Netskope One enables security, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams to reduce risk, cost, and complexity, protecting and accelerating everything to everywhere. Not only can we offer these unique capabilities; crucially, we are the only vendor that can deliver them all in a single platform.

In today’s era of digital transformation, organizations are rapidly shifting towards a distributed and dynamic digital infrastructure. This new reality is characterized by hybrid workforces, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud hosting. While this transformation brings numerous benefits, it also introduces significant challenges for IT organizations, particularly in terms of maintaining visibility over user experience and performance management.

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Netskope Threat Labs publishes a monthly summary blog post of the top threats we are tracking on the Netskope platform. This post aims to provide strategic, actionable intelligence on active threats against enterprise users worldwide.

According to Netskope’s recent “Year in Review” Cloud and Threat Report, the most common way cyber attackers gained access to organisations in 2023 was through social engineering. While a favourite tactic of cyber criminals, at its heart, social engineering isn’t about someone breaking code while hunched over a glowing keyboard. It relies on individual human vulnerability, tricking people into opening the door for the attacker to walk through.

The phenomenal growth in the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) has prompted enterprises of all sizes to move their critical data to SaaS-based applications. And as attackers tend to follow data to induce a breach, their new area of focus is enterprise SaaS. The recent Midnight Blizzard attack by nation-state actors clearly reinforces the fact that this trend has only just begun.