Netskope Inc (NTSK)

Netskope provides security and networking technology for the cloud and artificial intelligence era. Its unified, cloud-native platform, Netskope One, was built from the ground up to secure and accelerate the digital interactions of enterprises. The platform gives organizations contextual visibility into their data and digital interactions, using patented technologies and proprietary AI models to apply dynamic, granular, context-aware policies. These policies are intended to protect sensitive data, stop threats, support regulatory compliance and improve the digital experience. For example, the platform can detect a user entering sensitive corporate data into a personal instance of an AI application such as Google Gemini or ChatGPT and coach or redirect the user to the corporate instance in real time.

The platform combines a converged security, network and analytics technology stack with a Zero Trust Engine that inspects and controls traffic in real time. According to the company, it can understand and control more than 100 activity types across thousands of cloud, SaaS and AI applications, over a billion websites, and many data lakes, data stores and private applications. It takes a unified approach to data security, helping discover, classify and protect structured and unstructured data in motion, in use and at rest. The text positions the platform as an alternative to legacy appliance-based and first-generation cloud security tools, which it says rely on rigid block-or-allow rules, fragmented point solutions and siloed management consoles, and which force tradeoffs between security and performance.

Netskope serves enterprises whose users work from any device or location and whose digital environments include SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, AI, private applications, data centers and private and public clouds. These environments also include non-human entities such as IoT and OT devices, applications, robots and AI agents. The company addresses data protection, cyber threat defense and compliance with data privacy and AI regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the EU AI Act. It also supports extended enterprises that must give access to business partners, suppliers, contractors and acquired businesses.

The platform runs on the NewEdge global private cloud network, which the company describes as one of the world's largest and most connected. NewEdge consists of more than 125 full-compute edge data centers in 80 regions, with all capabilities available to every customer in every data center. It is designed to deliver security close to the end user and to reduce the rerouting of traffic between data centers. The text does not describe the company's suppliers, named competitors or headquarters.