Netskope to enhance data
security for Microsoft Teams
etskope, a leading security
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cloud vendor, has announced
the availability of its security
controls and protection for Microsoft
Teams. With the Netskope Security
Cloud, organisations get the benefits of
increased employee collaboration and
productivity while enforcing security
policies that keep data safe. Netskope
also announced that the company has
met the requirements to be officially
named a certified Data Loss Prevention
(DLP) provider for Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams – part of the Microsoft
365 suite of applications – helps to
increase collaboration in businesses of
all sizes, combining workplace chats,
online meetings, calls, files and tools
and other apps. As remote working
skyrockets, the need for a secure and
scalable collaborative environment is
essential. Beyond providing security for
any location or device type, enterprises
need to consider data movement between
both managed and unmanaged instances
of applications, a challenge discussed in
the Netskope Cloud and Threat Report.
With Netskope, Teams customers benefit
from a unique convergence of security
capabilities that simplify the work of
security teams. Through one interface
and zero on-premises appliances, the
Netskope Security Cloud prevents data
loss and protects against threats inline
through its next-gen secure web gateway
(NG SWG) and covers data at-rest
through its cloud access security broker
(CASB). The Netskope Security Cloud
is delivered on Netskope NewEdge, the
world’s largest carrier-grade privatecloud
network that offers unsurpassed
performance at hyperscale.
“With 44 million daily active users,
Microsoft Teams has seen tremendous
growth. For CISOs, this fast adoption
reinforces the need to provide inline
data protection and compliance to this
application, enabling enterprise-wide
collaboration that is safe to the business
without impairing productivity,” said
Bruno Raimondo, Head of SaaS Product
Management at Netskope. “To address
this ‘collaboration from anywhere’ need,
Netskope provides near real-time APIenabled
protection, such as data loss
prevention (DLP) and threat protection,
to protect our customers’ data as it
relates to the cloud, regardless of where
users are located.”
Rushmi Malaviarachchi, Partner
Director of Programme Management
for Information Protection in Teams at
Microsoft Corp, said: “Netskope is a
well-known security and compliance
SaaS provider. By bringing it into the
Teams ecosystem, we are giving our
enterprise customers more options to
protect their valuable data as they adopt
our Microsoft 365 suite of applications
and tools.”
Key features:
• Granular visibility and control:
Netskope for Teams allows IT
security teams to monitor and set
policies that can be defined by
various attributes, such as user,
activity, teams and more.
• Advanced data protection:
Netskope for Teams offers advanced
data loss prevention (DLP)
capabilities to protect sensitive data
no matter where it’s located or where
it goes – out to any SaaS application,
IaaS service or to the web.
• Cloud threat and malware
protection: The Netskope Machine
Learning- and rules-based anomaly
detection engine can alert security
teams to suspicious logins, excessive
activity, data exfiltration and
compromised credentials to help
resolve incidents faster.
• Single console and cloud
architecture: Netskope provides a
single point of control for managing
cloud security and compliance
needs for Teams as well as many
cloud applications. u
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