If you implement the solution, it will give you visibility. If you have 1,000 or 50,000 people working in your environment, you don't know what solutions people are using. Personally, I'm using OneNote and Microsoft Office, but someone might be using a text file or third party software, or using a browser extension just to take notes. 

We don't know how much we can trust third party applications. The product itself provides visibility to us. When we started back in 2019, we activated the solution for everyone, but this is not the best way for 30,000 users in one shot because we started blocking people and the work environment because people were using their own solutions and software. Netskope doesn't know those softwares so we have to integrate with them and with the third party, for which we are paying the license. Netskope says, "Okay, this is the server. We are blocking the server," but we don't know if we can trust this one or not. 

After talking with the other teams, we realized, "No, we are paying the license for it. This is legit, so we don't have to block it." 

When we started deployment, each month we deployed the traffic for 1,000 people. When it was done, we could see what they were using, consuming, and what we were blocking.

This way, we can change our policies. We try to allow the legit solutions and third party applications that we are paying the license for. Then we go to the next thousand. Then we discover what these people are doing and the applications they're using. When people tell us that they don't have access to their Gmail, we tell them that we cut out Gmail because we are only using the Microsoft services, so there is no Gmail, unless there is a reason for it.

Netskope provides visibility in our case for the deployment.

The benefits revolved around effectively addressing the use cases using Netskope. Regardless of user location, as long as they were connected to the internet, their data remained protected at all times. These were the major benefits we obtained.

Netskope CASB has improved our organization's security rather than its functionality.

Probably the most recent example of how the solution can assist a company is in terms of a false positive on a DLP. It was instituted to overcome a false positive due to the strain that was being used that was being captured as a positive issue. The false-positive was locking users out of their email addresses. This helped solve that issue.

It allows the use of cloud since we can control risks vs. just blocking access.

It gives us visibility. When we saw how many applications that we had, there was a huge gap between what we thought we had and what we were actually using.

It gives us a view into risk, redundancy and cost, just to build on what I said previously. It helps us minimize risk in SaaS, and helps us minimize redundancy in SaaS and cost itself.

Before Netskope we couldn't see which employee what using our service but now, we can easily see which cloud service an employee is using. 

This solution helps put into place governance of the cloud in terms of usage.