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What is Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management

Summary: Learn about how Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management gives organizations visibility, compliance, and protection for software as a service (SaaS).

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As enterprises move workloads and sensitive data into software as a service (SaaS) apps at a rapid pace, the risk of exposure, sensitive data loss, noncompliance, and threats like malware remain significant challenges.


Affected Products:

  • Netskope

Affected Versions:

  • Release 86 and Later

Netskope gives organizations the visibility, compliance, and protection for critical workloads that are needed for combatting these challenges. With Netskope, get an understanding of your risk exposure, detect misconfigurations, inventory assets, enforce compliance standards, and protect against insider threats and malware.

Netskope has expanded its security capabilities to SaaS apps. Netskope offers continuous security posture capabilities to help customers identify and remediate risky SaaS app misconfigurations and align security posture with best practices and compliance standards.

The latest release supports posture detection for GitHub, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce.

Key functionalities:

  • Visibility
    • Insight into current security settings and posture
    • Compliance dashboard view for both passed and failed rules
    • Alerts availability in Advanced Analytics (optional)
  • Policies
    • Set posture goals by aligning with best practices and industry compliance standards
    • Microsoft 365: CIS Benchmark v1.2.0 rules
    • GitHub, Salesforce: Netskope best practice rules
    • The rules are mapped to the following predefined compliance standards: CIS, PCI, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, HIPAA/HITRUST, SOC 2, ISO 27000, GDPR, and CSA Cloud Control Matrix
    • Custom rules and policies
  • Alerts
    • Continuous monitoring and benchmarking to posture goals
    • Get alerts for misconfigurations or other potential security risks
  • Remediation
    • Alert email notifications
    • On demand or scheduled compliance reports
    • Integrate alerts with ServiceNow and Jira using Cloud Ticket Orchestrator
    • Full access to alerts and compliance results using RESTful API
    • Guided remediation steps for all predefined rules
  • Other
    • Rule-based Access Control (RBAC) support

Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based service that brings together best-in-class productivity apps from Office 365 with advanced device management, intelligent security, and innovative online services. Microsoft 365 is a dynamic environment and must be continuously monitored for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. With Netskope, you can get a clear understanding of your SaaS security posture and see how the environment is performing against standards and best practices like CIS benchmarks. If violations are found, items are given severity levels of critical, high, medium, or low. Administrators can run a report for auditors, and quickly remediate and address gaps that were found using recommended guidance.

For more information about how to setup and access your Microsoft 365 security posture, reference How to Configure Microsoft 365 for Netskope Security Posture Management.

Salesforce is a dynamic environment. It must be continuously monitored for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. These include organization settings, users, profiles, permissions and roles, user files, enterprise data, the field audit trail, and more. With Netskope, you can determine if the environment has safe defaults for the organization and new users, user access management, data classification, platform encryption, and more. With Netskope, you can get a clear understanding of your SaaS security posture and see how the environment is performing against standards and best practices like Salesforce best practices benchmarks. If violations are found, items are given severity levels of critical, high, medium, or low. Administrators can run a report for auditors and quickly remediate and address gaps that were found using recommended guidance.

GitHub is a dynamic environment. It must be continuously monitored for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. These include organization settings, repository settings, users' information, teams' information, and repository access. With Netskope, you can now determine if the environment has safe defaults for new repositories and new users, and how many of your repositories are public. You can get a clear understanding of your SaaS security posture and see how the environment is performing against standards and best practices like GitHub best practices benchmarks. If violations are found, items are given severity levels of critical, high, medium, or low. Administrators can run a report for auditors and quickly remediate and address gaps that were found using recommended guidance.

Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management provides a status of the checks on compliance rules and SaaS resources. For more information, reference How To View Security Posture Compliance in Netskope.


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Article Properties


Affected Product

Netskope

Last Published Date

07 Mar 2024

Version

5

Article Type

How To