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. In the first part of this blog series, we observed the inception of an internet-based model where corporate networks have no borders anymore, home is the office, applications are in the cloud. This paradigm shift makes connectivity ubiquitous. But security risks have dramatically increased.

Latrodectus is a downloader first discovered by Walmart back in October of 2023. The malware became very famous due to its similarities with the famous IcedID malware, not only in the code itself but also the infrastructure, as previously reported by Proofpoint and Team Cymru S2. The malware is usually delivered via email spam campaigns conducted by two specific threat actors: TA577 and TA578.

In July 2024, Netskope Threat Labs tracked a 2,000-fold increase in traffic to phishing pages delivered through Microsoft Sway. The majority of the credential grabbing pages investigated used “Quishing,” a form of phishing that uses QR code to trick users into accessing a malicious website. The phishing campaigns targeted MS Office credentials, using documents to bait users into logging in.

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.