Type Privately held company Number of employees 300+ | Key people Sanjay Beri (CEO) Founded 2012 | |
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Founder Sanjay Beri, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, Krishna Narayanaswamy Headquarters Los Altos, California, United States Products Netskope Active Platform, Netskope for Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Google Apps, Office 365, Salesforce, Cloud DLP, Encryption | ||
Netskope, Inc. is an American software company founded in 2012 that helps companies find, understand, and secure software-as-a-service (SaaS) in use by their employees. Netskope is in a category of technology classified by Gartner as cloud access security brokers.
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Netskope is based in Los Altos, California, with a software development office in Bangalore, India.
History
Netskope was founded by Sanjay Beri, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Krishna Narayanaswamy, with $21.4 million in funding.
Several of the company's early employees were distinguished engineers and principal architects from companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks/Netscreen, and McAfee/IntruVert.
Founder Sanjay Beri became the company CEO in 2012. In October 2013 the company launched and made its software generally available. In that same month, it announced the formation of an advisory team and appointed Enrique Salem, former Symantec Chairman and CEO to its board of directors.
On May 15 2014, Netskope announced series C funding of $35 million led by Accel Partners and added Eric Wolford, Partner at Accel, to its board of directors.
On July 19, 2016 Netskope, based on the work of Krishna Narayanswamy, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Sanjay Beri, received United States Patent 9,398,102 for the security of a network delivered service.
Technology
Netskope software is delivered as a SaaS service via a distributed cloud in SOC-2 data centers. The solution steers cloud and SaaS network traffic to a cloud-native service for the purposes of inspection. Clients of Netskope log into the software via a web browser interface where they can access analytics on cloud and SaaS app usage and set policies to control and secure specific usage behavior or alert an administrator. Netskope offers different deployment options for traffic steering for analysis and policy control. These include log ingestion, API connectors, an agent-less forward proxy, reverse proxy, and thin agent and profile for remote users on PCs or mobile devices. Netskope can enforce policies including data loss prevention (DLP), anti-malware, encryption, access control, and incident management services on the cloud traffic it inspects.