Singapore, June 19, 2024 – Netskope, a frontrunner in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), has announced its membership in the Google Workspace Security Alliance, marking a significant step in extending security and data protection for Google Workspace users. The Netskope One Platform offers an array of advanced security capabilities designed to safeguard data, defend against threats, and ensure users have rapid and secure access to Google Workspace tools, including Gemini for Workspace.
As organizations increasingly leverage cloud technologies for innovation and efficiency, they face mounting challenges in securing sensitive data against a variety of cyber risks. These include:
- The growing number of users uploading instances of cloud applications.
- Emerging and evolving threat techniques such as the misuse of certain applications for accessing critical data, back doors, financial gain, credential compromises, and insider threats.
- Data exposure risks from the insecure use of both managed and unmanaged AI-based productivity tools.
Netskope and Google Workspace empower organizations to harness the benefits of modern collaboration and productivity tools while ensuring robust security. Netskope provides advanced data loss prevention (DLP) techniques, offering real-time visibility and control over users, data, and corporate versus personal cloud instances. Additionally, Netskope’s comprehensive threat protection through both API and inline controls detects threats within Google applications and monitors data movement and threat propagation between Google Workspace apps and third-party ecosystem applications.
“Netskope is proud to expand its partnership with Google Workspace by joining the Workspace Security Alliance. There are already thousands of customers using Netskope to safeguard their Google Workspace applications, and this new partnership further enhances the secure usage capabilities for application-specific data protection policies,” said Andy Horwitz, VP, Global Partner Ecosystems, Netskope. “Together, Netskope and Google Workspace can help customers modernize their productivity stack. We look forward to helping customers safely optimize their employees’ daily productivity.”
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The partnership between Netskope and Google Workspace enables organizations to embrace collaboration and productivity while protecting critical data. Joint customers can now more effectively:
- Support best practice use of Gemini for Google Workspace: Utilize real-time user coaching to enforce best practices in application usage, gaining visibility into data movement to minimize sensitive information sharing while achieving data compliance objectives.
- Protect sensitive data: Detect and manage access to sensitive data within Google Workspace applications, enforcing policies to prevent unauthorized data movement across platforms, including third-party services like Microsoft OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox.
- Stop insider threats like data exfiltration: Prevent the download of sensitive data from Google Workspace business instances and subsequent upload to personal instances, a leading cause of data loss. Additionally, apply this control to unmanaged devices, allowing access to specific cloud apps for collaboration while restricting sensitive data downloads.
- Detect and stop elusive threats and malware: Guard against malware and phishing attacks delivered from the cloud with Netskope’s multi-layered advanced threat protection (ATP), enhancing security within Google Workspace and across cloud applications.
- Maintain compliance in Google Workspace: Ensure adherence to regulations and compliance needs by enforcing security policies within Google Workspace.
“By partnering with Netskope, a leading SASE vendor, customers can confidently expand their Google Workspace adoption leveraging their existing IT infrastructure investments,” said Nikhil Sinha, Group Product Manager, Google Workspace. “Netskope instance awareness enables fine-grained data governance policy differences to both corporate and personal Google Workspace accounts. We are excited to partner with Netskope to provide these advanced security capabilities to our customers.”
Customers and partners can now purchase specific SASE protection packages for Google Workspace, including Gemini for Workspace. The entire Netskope SASE platform is available today on Google Marketplace. For more information about Netskope and Google Workspace, please visit here.
About Netskope
Netskope, a global leader in SASE, helps organizations apply zero trust principles and AI/ML innovations to protect data and defend against cyber threats. The Netskope One platform and its patented Zero Trust Engine provide optimized access and real-time security for people, devices, and data anywhere. Thousands of customers trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to reduce risk and gain unrivaled visibility into cloud, web, and private application activity—ensuring security and performance without compromise. Learn more at netskope.com.
