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Netskope NextGen SWG

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What is Netskope NextGen SWG?

Netskope NextGen SWG is a secure web gateway solution provided by Netskope. According to the vendor, this solution aims to deliver advanced threat and data protection for web and cloud traffic. It offers comprehensive visibility and control over user traffic, including web, managed and unmanaged SaaS, cloud service providers, and custom apps. Netskope NextGen SWG caters to small, medium, and large enterprises, as well as professionals in information technology, security, and compliance roles.

Key Features

Visibility and control: Achieve unmatched inline visibility and control across various lanes of user traffic, including web, managed SaaS, unmanaged SaaS, cloud service providers, and custom apps, utilizing a single pass cloud architecture.

Advanced threat protection: Prevent malware and detect advanced threats in web and cloud traffic with the advanced threat protection capabilities of Netskope NextGen SWG.

Advanced data protection: Safeguard sensitive data from unauthorized access and exfiltration with the advanced data protection features offered by the solution.

TLS inspection at cloud scale: Enable TLS inspection at cloud scale to ensure secure communication and detect threats hidden within encrypted traffic.

Advanced analytics and reporting: Gain insights into web and cloud traffic, detect anomalies, and generate detailed reports for compliance and auditing purposes using the advanced analytics and reporting capabilities of the solution.

Monitor and access: Monitor and access thousands of managed and unmanaged apps, cloud services, and web traffic to gain visibility into user activities with Next Gen SWG.

Control cloud apps: Effectively manage and control cloud apps, ensuring compliance with security policies and preventing unauthorized usage, with Next Gen SWG.

Acceptable Use: Define and enforce acceptable use policies for web and cloud traffic, ensuring adherence to company guidelines and preventing access to inappropriate content.

Protect against threats: Safeguard organizations from cyber attacks with robust threat protection capabilities, including malware prevention and detection of advanced threats, provided by Next Gen SWG.

Protect data everywhere: Ensure comprehensive protection of sensitive data across web and cloud traffic, preventing data loss and unauthorized access with the data protection features offered by the solution.

How Recover the control of our newly outside corporate users

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main use case of Netskope NextGen SWG in my organization is to can control what are accessed by the company users what work from home or outside of the office using or not corporate devices. With this tool we recover the control about what is accessed in internet include threat protection, SSL decrypt and dlp features.

Pros

  • Control Web Traffic
  • SSL Decrypt
  • Control Web 2.0
  • Threat Protection
  • DLP

Cons

  • Reporting
  • Integration with Azure AD
  • Deploy Procedure

Most Important Features

  • Control of WEB 2.0
  • DLP
  • Threat Protection
  • SSL Decrypt

Return on Investment

  • Complete Control of Web access regardless the location of user
  • Deep Application control ( Eg. Allow access just the company tenant of a SaaS App)
  • No Restrictions about the device type ( Eg. Windows, MAC and mobiles)

Alternatives Considered

McAfee Web Gateway and Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Other Software Used

Netskope Private Access, Netskope CASB, McAfee Complete Data Protection