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Several of the examples in the Netskope Library with Word Clouds visualization are for Justification.  As these are largely user-generated, they tend to be nearly universally unique.  Has there been any consideration of tokenizing these into either individual words (discarding filler words) or shorter phrases?   A drill-in on these could then expose the justifications that contain the selected word/phrase.

  Hello Folks,    Below you can find a recap of questions asked at the office hours sessions last week and those sent in that we were not able to cover at the session. Feel free to comment and continue the discussion, as well as attend future sessions that can be found on the Community Events calendar!   Q: I’m new to Advanced Analytics. How and where can I start my journey? A: Here is a link to a helpful video on how to get started quickly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1X131ouyY0. We highly recommend starting with existing dashboards, either in the library or community. Tags can help you find dashboards you are interested in. You can explore any dashboards based on your needs, and customize them in your environment. You can also find tons of resources (e.g., hot topic discussion, dashboard intro, and upcoming AA events, etc.) here on the Netskope Community. Feel free to let us know if you need any help!   Q: What reports can be used to show executives a sum

TL;DR Use dashboard filters to reduce data volume being loaded all at once (i,e. Date range, Category, User Group) Dashboards will load slow if they contain a lot of widgets; for best performance, keep widget count < 15 when creating dashboards Dashboards with custom fields and advanced features such as merged results and pivot will take longer to load Large number of data attributes/columns will affect dashboard loading time   The most important element of dashboard performance is the underlying SQL query performance. Each widget on the dashboard runs a SQL query that takes time to execute on the underlying database. Below are some considerations for creating performant dashboards or widgets:   Data volume has the greatest impact on performance. The more data that is returned in a widget on the dashboard, the more memory resources will be consumed. Widgets returned with many thousands of data points will use more memory. Utilize filters to limit size of data or rows of

In Netskope R103, the UI for Advanced Analytics has a brand new look, and we think you’ll like it. That’s because based on the feedback from our user community, we’re making it easier for you to get the information you need, in a very personalized way. In some cases, we are adding new capabilities, such as the Persona profile so that you can quickly get information relevant to your job. In other areas, we’ve added quality of life improvements which makes many Advanced Analytics capabilities easier to find and use, such as favorite dashboards and counters to identify how many times a dashboard has been run.   The most immediate change you’ll notice is that Advanced Analytics now has an Overview page. In the past, admins would go directly to an Advanced Analytics submenu item, such as Netskope Library, directly from the UI (don’t worry, this functionality is still here, if that’s what you’d like to do). What’s changed is that there is now an Overview page, which taps into what you

Hello Folks,    Below you will find a recap of questions asked at the office hours sessions last week and those sent in that we were not able to cover at the session. Feel free to comment and continue the discussion, as well as attend future sessions that can be found on the Community Events calendar!   Q: How can I start to edit/customize a dashboard? A: Before customizing a dashboard, please copy and save the dashboard to your personal or group folder. To do this, click on the 3-dot button and then hit “Copy.” You can then select the destination folder with the dropdown menu (personal/group). By hitting “COPY HERE,” the dashboard will be saved to your selected folder. You can then find and start to edit the dashboard.     Q: What reports can be used to show executives a summary of cloud usage, threat, and risk assessment, etc.? A: “CISO dashboard” and “Cloud Risk Assessment - QBR” dashboard are 2 good options. You may also use the “Industry Benchmarks” das

I often find that knowing the host portion is much more useful than knowing the full URI of the referer, and trying to squeeze the full URI onto a widget can get cluttered real fast.    substring(substring(${app_event.referer},position(${app_event.referer},"//")+2,length(${app_event.referer})),0,position(substring(${app_event.referer},position(${app_event.referer},"//")+2,length(${app_event.referer})),"/")-1) That custom field could be simplified by referencing other custom fields containing substrings of the URI, but the version above is fully self-contained.

Knowledge is power…be it for use in parenting, cyber security or anything else. That said, knowledge is not all about getting a million data points, it’s about extracting insight out of them. Check out my Netskope blog post, in which I share some of my experiences getting actionable insights for security teams!   https://www.netskope.com/blog/data-insights-for-parenting-and-cybersecurity-teams  

I was trying to correlate and troubleshoot a sporadic issue I had noted for a very small number of our users. However, while I was able to geographicly correlate them, this is largely insignificant.  What I think would have been a more interesting piece of data to have included in the visualization is the user's presumed ISP.  Is this already being gathered via DNS when you retrieve the geolocation records, and just not available to us in DEM?  If so, can it be exposed? 

DLP incidents for Netskope Advanced Analytics are here! The documentation is live here: Advanced Analytics Incidents. The release notes are here: Advanced Analytics Incidents.   Key Features Incidents Data Collection (Explorer) DLP Incidents Status Monitoring (Netskope Library) Key Benefits Monitor Security Operations: Security incidents should be handled or mitigated in a timely manner. Advanced Analytics helps organizations see aggregated views of DLP incidents in order to get visibility into resolution. Identify process bottlenecks: With Advanced Analytics, organizations can dive into incident process workflows to identify and address bottlenecks. Identify frequent offenders: Advanced Analytics provides a summary view of DLP incidents, making it easier to spot the individuals and groups that need coaching. Communicate KPIs with upper management: CISOs need summary views to identify the problems in their security program. Submit your feedback via&nbs

Join Elena Matchey, Head of Analytics at Netskope for a conversation on how to optimize security operations with pre-built and custom data analysis tools. Bring your questions on Advanced Analytics and get step-by-step answers from a live Netskope environment. Register Here. This session is for Netskope Advanced Analytics customers, and aimed at engineers who have hands-on experience with Netskope. We welcome interaction so that you can learn from each other and share your personal experiences. Agenda: 1.) Introductions 2.) Open Floor Q&A 3.) "Select a Use Case" 4.) Resources and where to get help

Can the data stores behind DEM be exposed to clients who have both DEM and AA?   It's quite obvious that AA is driving the data presentation of DEM, to the point that a DEM folder was appearing in the Netskope Library of AA for a while.   But (unlike other Netskope provided AA reporting) we unable to copy and tune many of those reports.  Additionally, we are not able to explore the data to find stats meaningful to us.

For those of you that are leveraging Adv Analytics, what has been your real-world need for the cloud storage period for records? 7 days with a Splunk data collection looks to be feasible (if this data, indeed, feeds to Splunk). 30 days is likely where we'd want it capped but I'd like to hear from current users. 

Advanced Analytics is a powerful data platform that will help you develop a deeper understanding of what's happening in your cloud environment. We have a number of Advanced Analytics video training resources that are available to make it easy to learn new concepts, visualize cloud activity and apply the findings to your Netskope security policies.   Each week, I'll make updates to this post when new videos are released. Keep a bookmark on this post (Options->Bookmark) to learn more about Advanced Analytics.   Video 1: Quick Tour and Creating a Report from Explore Video 2: Advanced Analytics: Overview of Popular Dashboards Video 3: CISO Dashboard Video 4: Introduction to Advanced Analytics - Part 1 Video 5: Introduction to Advanced Analytics - Part 2 Video 6: Migrating Existing Reports   Do you have requests for additional videos? Reply to this post and let me know.  

  Advanced Analytics will help you understand activities within your applications in an entirely new light. In this video @mzhang walks through the key elements for building your first dashboard.       Are there topics about Advanced Analytics that you'd like to learn more about? Leave a comment and let me know.

Hey all,So here's what the widget does:It looks to see how many users in each company division are using Cloud Storage apps.The problem is there are many Cloud Storage apps, and the list just spans across too many columns.(see the screen shot) Is it possible to (within the same widget) break up the data into different rows, or would I have to use multiple widgets?

Here is a video that discusses what dimensions and measures are, and how to use them in Advanced Analytics. This video is part of a training series that is currently in development. Please let me know what you think! 

Does Netskope have a good video, etc on the advanced analytics. We get asked from our HR dept. to pull a full report on a users internet activity. They want a nice pdf with all this type of info: user, site/app, browse time, category, action, days accessed, etc....    Thank you!

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