This blog is part of the ongoing “I&O Perspectives” series, which features insights from industry experts about the impact of current threats, networking, and other cybersecurity trends. As I embark on a new role with the Netskope Platform Engineering team, I am eager to explore how our company’s vision shapes the evolution of enterprise networking security.

This is the first blog in a series about Branch Transformation with the Next Gen SASE Branch solution. Built on the Netskope One SASE platform, this innovative approach combines Context-aware SASE Fabric, Zero Trust Hybrid Security, and a SkopeAI-powered Cloud Orchestrator into a unified cloud offering. This blog delves into Context-aware SASE Fabric, the foundational tenet of the Next Gen SASE Branch solution that facilitates the convergence and sharing of context between networking and security.

As we reflect on the first half of 2024, it seems to me that two defining features so far have been a litany of significant cyber attacks on companies across every sector, and widespread adoption of AI tools as businesses seek to innovate. At the heart of this storm of cyber threats is the CISO, looking to guide their business safely through potential dangers. Last month, Netskope undertook research examining how CISOs view their role and asking how they’re approaching these challenges.

The Play ransomware, also known as PlayCrypt, is a ransomware that first emerged in June 2022. The ransomware has been targeting industries such as healthcare and telecommunication as well as a wide range of regions such as Latin America, Europe, and North America. The Play ransomware is known for gaining access to networks through compromised valid accounts or by exploiting specific vulnerabilities. Once inside the network, it uses a big pool of known post-exploitation tools to continue its attack.

Netskope is one of only two vendors positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for both key categories: Security Service Edge and Single-Vendor SASE. What’s more, the Gartner companion report, Critical Capabilities for Single-Vendor SASE, recognized Netskope as the only Single-Vendor SASE vendor that ranked among the 3 highest scoring vendors in all 3 Use Cases, with the highest score for the Zero Trust Platform Use Case (4.02/5.00).

Netskope and Wiz help organizations simplify and automate policy management across complex cloud environments. This partnership highlights the seamless integration between Wiz sharing security risk and threat insights to enable Netskope to modify existing policies or craft new ones automatically. Below, we present two of the primary use cases that customers leverage with our joint integration.

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

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s widely used Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) provides organizations with a common language that allows staff at all levels—and at all points in a supply chain—to develop a shared understanding of their cybersecurity capability.

Technological advances in how we create and consume media have repeatedly transformed how election campaigns are fought: social media, TV and radio were all revolutions in their times.There have always been concerns about the impact these new technologies would have on democracy: the Milwaukee Journal worried following the first televised presidential debate, in 1960, that “American Presidential campaigning will never be the same again.” Perhaps they were right…

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI (genAI) has seen rapid enterprise adoption. According to researchers in the Netskope Threat Labs, as of June 2024, an astonishing 96% of organizations are using various types of genAI apps. This widespread adoption is transforming how businesses operate, but with great power comes great responsibility—and risk.