In general, Netskope has helped in securing the connections between our infrastructure, whether it's on-premises or in the cloud. It provides a frictionless experience for our users. Basically, there's no change in the user experience for our employees. So, it's a seamless deployment, which is a good thing. All the adjustments are happening on the back end. So, it really improves the connectivity of our devices and users, whether they are on-premises or in the cloud.

Our organization has deployed Netskope security agents on all devices to achieve both Internet security and private access. The primary objectives behind this deployment were to provide security and protection for remote users regardless of their location. The second goal was to grant them VPN access to internal company resources using laptops or smartphones.

Netskope Private Access is a solution that helps you share all your web traffic. It applies policies and other measures in the Netskope data center and then routes the traffic to its original destination.

We have pretty complex use cases. Catering to a seamless end-user experience for accessing both external and internal applications—both private and public applications—with a consistent experience across on-premise and working-from-home environments. 

We use the product to provide secure access for remote desktop, Active Directory resources on-premises, DNS, and LDAP authentication.

The main use case of private access was to address the limitations of traditional VPNs. In the VPN scenario, connecting involved a back-calling process. This meant that when users connected through the VPN, they gained access to a variety of resources, including internal ones, within the network.

So, in the VPN scenario, what was happening, the user would get back to the complete source. But in Netskope Private Access, the application will go to the user. There is an outbound connection. There is no inbound. Storage providers are also not there. It's the best feature because it is the replacement of the VPN.

We are replacing traditional VPN access with a more robust and secure solution. The goal is to implement Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to improve security and policy enforcement. This change involves replacing traditional VPN (Virtual Private Network) access with a more advanced solution and following the principles of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), which means that trust is not assumed based on network location or user identity.

Netskope Private Access is generally used to migrate customers from legacy VPN solutions they are currently using. We approach them to migrate to us to meet compliance standards and have secure connectivity. 

Parallelly, it is used specifically for customers using VPNs, as Netskope Private Access provides outbound connectivity only. We acquire these customers who need this type of service.

I use Netskope Private Access for VPN access. 

We are using the solution as a VPN. 

With NetSkope's ZTNA, a huge amount of VPN can be saved. If I opt for a traditional VPN, then I need to purchase a user-based license to use that VPN solution, and it would also cause my users to dial the VPN client every day, which my users won't have to do if they opt for ZTNA from Netskope. ZTNA from Netskope just pushes one configuration profile onto a user's computer, after which the user gets access, along with the access policy on Netskope's portal.

In the firewall, we don't have a user-based policies list, and we can't create them. Netskope helps us to create user-based policies. For example, if there are specific teams like HR or more than nine teams, and we want logs from access over particular URLs, and we don't want to allow that specific URL for certain users, we can create these policies in Netskope. It's handy, easy to use for new users, and has a cool GUI interface. We can create multiple policies, and as for the proxy, it's a leading solution. 

Overall, it's user-friendly and beneficial for organizations requiring a proxy to modify data flowing through the Internet. Netskope has become a beneficial solution for them.

We use the solution for digital transformation for everyone working both on the perimeter and on homework assignments, accessing apps within proprietary work servers, and putting a publisher behind those servers to secure field trust access.

We're one of the handful of partners in Canada for Netskope. We're a platinum partner, and we do the architecture design and provide other services to our clients. We also use this solution internally because my company is 100% SaaS, and DLP, governance, and all that stuff is very important to me.