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Netskope AI Security

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Employee AI and data5 related approaches
Network and cloud access controlsAdditional if: Employee AI traffic crosses managed web or cloud controls · Employee AI traffic passes through security controls for web, cloud, or business applications.Employee AI access and usage controlsDirectly addresses · Discover employee AI use and control access to approved and unapproved AI services.AI data protectionDirectly addresses · Inspect prompts, responses, and files to prevent sensitive data from moving through AI tools.Sensitive-data discovery and accessDirectly addresses · Discover sensitive company data that AI can access and identify where that data enters AI-enabled business workflows.Browser and extension controlsAdditional if: Employees use a managed browser or extension · Employees use AI through a managed browser or browser extension where data and session controls can operate.

Company scale

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?EstablishedA provider with at least $1B in annual revenue, at least 1,000 employees, or backing from an established owner.This is a company-maturity signal, not a product-quality rating.

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  • $709M annual revenue (2026-01-31)
  • 1000+ employees

Company context

Public company (Nasdaq: NTSK)

Netskope reports 4,000+ customers worldwide, 30%+ Fortune 100 customers, and a NewEdge private cloud in more than 80 regions

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Vendor statements
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Evaluation requirements
19 in this research model
Unresolved requirements
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Company intelligence

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Founded2012
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California
OwnershipPublic company (Nasdaq: NTSK)
Employees1000+
Capital and scalePlatform provider

Netskope

Latest annual company revenue
$709M

Netskope Inc · period ended 2026-01-31 · filed 2026-03-31

Operating scale
Netskope reports 4,000+ customers worldwide, 30%+ Fortune 100 customers, and a NewEdge private cloud in more than 80 regions
Backing context
Raised $908M in a 2025 IPO; previously venture and growth backed
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Company tenure
2012
Workforce scale
1000+
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Company sources and research limits5 linked public sources

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Company sourceNetskope One AI Security pageNetskope positions Netskope One AI Security across enterprise apps, private models, agents, shadow AI, GenAI SaaS, AI-powered applications, and autonomous agents.Company sourceNetskope company pageNetskope's company page lists Santa Clara headquarters, NewEdge scale, customer stats, and company scale.Company sourceMarketWatch IPO coverageMarketWatch reported Netskope's 2025 IPO, Nasdaq ticker NTSK, and $908M raised.Company information sourceStored company websiteSupports the company facts shown in this profile.Regulatory filing10-K annual filingNetskope Inc (NTSK) · period ended 2026-01-31

Solution areas

These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.

Network and cloud access controlsCore product focusEmployee AI access and usage controlsCore product focusAI data protectionCore product focusSensitive-data discovery and accessRelated coverageBrowser and extension controlsRelated coverage

Buyer context

  • For current Netskope SASE/SSE customers, treat Netskope AI Security as an extension path for existing policy, data loss prevention (DLP), cloud access security broker (CASB)/SWG, browser, and traffic-control investments.
  • For non-Netskope customers, compare whether adopting a SASE/SSE control plane is justified by AI security requirements versus using a narrower AI security point solution.

Related frameworks

Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements

11 related frameworks · expand when needed
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Current referenceCSA AI Controls Matrix
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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
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Current referenceISO/IEC 42001
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Current referenceMITRE ATLAS
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12
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Current referenceNIST AI RMF Playbook
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13
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Current referenceNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
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Informative referenceOWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
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Informative referenceOWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
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Commercial Metadata
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Evaluation questions

What to verify beyond public claims

These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.

  1. 01
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    An unmanaged AI app used by a test user appears in discovery inventory with user, app or domain, and timestamp.

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    Unapproved AI use discovery

    The test user's AI usage activity can be filtered or exported with AI-specific context.

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    AI-feature discovery in business applications

    A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

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    AI-feature discovery in business applications

    The inventory shows which users, data classes, integrations, or providers are associated with the AI-enabled software as a service (SaaS) app.

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    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.

  6. 06
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Prompt, model, or admin activity can be exported or correlated for the selected approved AI platform.

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    Controls for unapproved AI use

    A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.

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    Controls for unapproved AI use

    The control event records policy reason, user, destination, action, and timestamp.

Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
AI-feature discovery in business applications

Inventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

Browser and business-application controls

Apply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.

Generative AI application security

Protect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

AI governance, risk, and compliance

Inventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.

AI assurance and adversarial testing

Test models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.

AI model and supply-chain security

Discover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls

Mediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.

Non-human identity and service-account security

Inventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.

AI agent identity and permissions

Register AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.

AI coding-agent and workstation security

Discover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.

Licensing model

Publicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.

Strong public support
Commercial MetadataCSA AI Controls Matrix

The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.

Public sources

Vendor statements and quoted evidence

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AI governance, risk, and complianceSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Netskope claims unified AI governance using AI inventory, risk assessments, interaction logs, compliance mappings, policy controls, guardrails, and a single platform policy framework.

Log detailed session information, including initializations, tool requests, and responses, to provide the transparency required for AI governance.
AI assurance and adversarial testingSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims automated, scheduled adversarial simulations using more than 18,000 scenarios, multi-turn attacks, continuous risk tracking, and application programming interface (API)-based CI/CD release screening.

Automating adversarial simulations and integrating into CI/CD pipelines to help you uncover vulnerabilities.
AI model and supply-chain securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Netskope claims an Model Context Protocol (MCP) Catalog and inventory spanning local, containerized, remote, and code-repository Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with risk assessment and access controls.

An inventory of publicly available MCP servers (remote and code repositories).
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controlsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims an AI Gateway and Agentic Broker with real-time decoding, inspection, data loss prevention (DLP), guardrails, and granular blocking policies for prompts, responses, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tools, and traffic.

Advanced real-time protection policy controls.
AI agent identity and permissionsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Netskope claims policy-based access control for autonomous non-human Model Context Protocol (MCP) interactions and visibility across Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients, servers, tools, resources, and prompt requests.

Scale your autonomous AI, and secure autonomous, non-human interactions, with unified visibility and control of public MCP servers.
AI coding-agent and workstation securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Netskope claims real-time protection and data loss prevention (DLP) for Model Context Protocol (MCP) client applications including AI code editors and developer tools, with discovery and blocking of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tools, resources, and requests.

Real-time protection when using MCP client applications including AI code editors, chat interfaces, and developer tools.
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Licensing modelSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope documents AI Gateway as a subscription licensed by gateway instances and monthly transaction allocations, with separate tenant entitlements and add-on packages for more gateways or transactions.

Each Subscription Unit entitles the Customer to one Gateway instance and a fixed allocation of Transactions per calendar month.
Unapproved AI use discoverySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims Netskope One AI Security provides visibility and controls across enterprise apps, private models, agents, and shadow AI.

Unified AI security for every interaction, from enterprise apps, private models, and agents, to shadow AI.
AI-feature discovery in business applicationsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims it can see and secure generative AI software as a service (SaaS), privately hosted large language models (LLMs), AI-powered applications, and autonomous agents.

See and secure your AI ecosystem across generative AI SaaS, privately hosted LLMs, AI-powered applications, and autonomous agents.
Approved AI usage monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims generative AI App Security provides visibility across personal, corporate, approved, and shadow generative AI usage.

Gain complete visibility and enforce policies across your entire genAI footprint: personal to corporate, sanctioned to shadow.
Controls for unapproved AI useSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims it can enforce policies across generative AI use and provide access controls for enterprise AI adoption.

Gain complete visibility and enforce policies across your entire genAI footprint: personal to corporate, sanctioned to shadow.
Sensitive-data protection for generative AISource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims it inspects and sanitizes AI prompts and responses in real time and protects sensitive data across AI apps.

Inspect and sanitize every prompt and response in real time, with a unified defense against AI threats, misuse, and data loss.
Browser and business-application controlsSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims cloud app controls for generative AI include real-time access, out-of-band data protection, and security posture management.

Secure the GenAI era with Netskope's proven cloud app controls, from real-time access and out-of-band data protection to security posture management.
Generative AI application securitySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims AI Gateway secures AI-powered applications as data risk shifts to autonomous app-to-large language model (LLM) application programming interface (API) calls.

As you build AI-powered applications, data risk shifts from human prompts to autonomous app-to-LLM API calls.
Action-taking agent monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Netskope claims AI Command Center provides visibility across generative AI apps and autonomous agents.

Gain comprehensive visibility across your entire AI environment, from genAI apps to autonomous agents
Agent-to-agent communication securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Netskope claims Agentic Broker secures autonomous non-human interactions and provides visibility and control for public Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Scale your autonomous AI, and secure autonomous, non-human interactions, with unified visibility and control of public MCP servers.
Non-human identity and service-account securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Netskope claims visibility into non-human activity for AI agent interactions through Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic monitoring.

Monitor the MCP traffic that enables your AI agent interactions, giving visibility into non‑human activity and preventing unauthorized data access or risky connections.
AI cost and usage controlsNo supporting claim found

No public Netskope AI Security claim found for operational AI spend attribution, budget controls, rate-limit cost governance, or model-routing cost optimization.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Approved AI platform contextSource checkedRelated public context only

Netskope positions AI Security inside Netskope One, so current Netskope SASE/SSE customers should evaluate incremental enablement, policy reuse, and license scope before adding a separate AI security control plane.

Here's your chance to experience the Netskope One single-cloud platform first-hand.