Your Netskope Monthly Highlights – October 2026
The latest updates, resources, and events – all in one place.
Hi there,
As part of our ongoing commitment to helping you get the most value out of your Netskope investment, we’re excited to bring you this month’s Netskope Highlights—your one-stop roundup of the latest product updates, expert content, and upcoming learning opportunities.
🚀 Product Release Updates
Release 142.0.0 is here! Explore this month’s key features and enhancements to ensure you’re getting maximum value from your setup.
📄 Release Notes - October 2026
✅ Pro Tip: Check for features relevant to your current configurations.
✅ Features not to miss out!
This section highlights key innovations from the recent Netskope release that can significantly enhance your Adoption and Value Realization journey.
Top Highlights:
1. Standard Features
- Cloud Firewall Consolidated DNS Events: Generates one DNS event per transaction instead of separate request and response events. This reduces duplicate entries and ingestion costs in third-party SIEM tools.
- Cloud Firewall Policy Enhancements: Policies now support Source IP Egress and Access Methods conditions, giving non-web traffic the same granular control as web traffic.
- New "Paste Sites" URL Category: A new predefined category for anonymous text-sharing sites such as Pastebin. It lets you apply Real-time Protection policies and reporting to these sites separately from other web traffic.
- Remote Proxy (formerly Forward to Proxy): Modernized with full REST API v2 automation, a Next-Gen UI and staged configuration with pending-change review.
- Advanced Analytics Favorites: Mark reports and dashboards as favorites for quick access, along with redesigned Personal and Group pages.
- Netskope Client OS Support: Now supports macOS 27, iOS 27, Chrome OS 152 and Debian 13.
2. Key High-Value Features
- Endpoint AI Discovery (AI Command Center)– GA: Automatically discovers AI assets on managed Windows and macOS endpoints via the Netskope Client. AICC also now shows a unified Risk badge with a confidence indicator for AI apps, MCP servers and identities, plus separate upload and download traffic views.
- AI Guardrails On Demand – GA (Netskope Hosted and User Hosted): A standalone REST API, or a VM you deploy on-prem or in your VPC, that scans AI prompts and responses in real time. It integrates with API gateways such as LiteLLM, Kong and Apigee. The new Prompt Sandbox lets you test and tune guardrail profiles before applying them to live traffic.
- Agent Action Control – GA (formerly Agent Guardrails): Adds a User Alert action for human-in-the-loop approval of AI agent actions before they execute. Coverage is also being extended to 79 applications (Beta).
- AI Red Teaming – Multilingual Testing: Adversarial safety testing now covers 23 languages, with custom prompts in any language, code-switching evasion attacks and side-by-side Attack Success Rate comparison.
- Endpoint DLP Expansion: Adds Browser Application Control and AirDrop Content Control for macOS, Printer Content Control v3 (GA) for faster Windows print inspection, and Windows EPDLP agent support for ARM64.
⚠️ Important Changes to Note
- Printer Content Control v2 is no longer supported from R142. Use PCCv3, or stay on R141.1 if you still need v2.
- Quarantine action removed from classic Real-time Protection policies. Existing policies using it reset to Block when next opened for editing.
- DLP engine maintenance: Netskope is updating the engine component used for file type detection and content extraction. Some extracted metadata fields (such as "Author" and "format") will change, and detection results may shift. Verify your DLP rules and severity thresholds after deployment.
- SSPM: 40 rules will soon be removed from the Netskope Best Practice category. This may affect your posture score if your policies use that filter.
- Rollout: Deployments take place over a one-week window, so features may not appear in your tenant immediately.
Want to learn more? Dive into the release notes
📚 Technical How-To & Knowledge Base Picks
Articles and quick guides to achieve most common use cases
🔍Explore the complete Knowledge Base here
- User Notification - Access Restrict
- Google Chrome - Blocking Chrome Extensions
- AWS S3 Auto-Purge Solution Documentation
- Google Chrome - Blocking Traffic from Chrome Extensions
🛠Scheduled Maintenance
Don’t get caught off guard. Review upcoming maintenance events and prepare your teams in advance. 🔧 Visit the Trust Portal
🎓 Learn Live with Netskope Experts – Webinars & Office Hours Join our upcoming sessions featuring practical demos, platform tips, and best practice walkthroughs.
📅 View Upcoming Webinars & Workshops here
Don’t miss out our customer success webinar featuring a walkthrough of features from recent Netskope releases (R142) in November :
If you missed our previous webinar, please review the recap of the events below covering top releases from R139, R140 and R141
📰 From the Blog: Deep Dives & Trends
Stay informed with expert analysis, threat trends, and strategic platform insights.
📝 Read the Latest Articles here
Featured stories this month:
- How Data Lineage Catches a File That’s Trying Not to Be Found
- Agent Action Control: For When The Agent Doesn’t Ask First
- Introducing Netskope Skylight AI Security
- Trying to Pace the Frontier is Not Going to Secure the Enterprise
- Netskope Joins CrowdStrike QuiltWorks + 3 Major New Integrations
🤖 GO-LIVE: Meet SCALE Agent – Your New AI Adoption Guide on Netskope Community!
We’re excited to announce the launch of SCALE Agent, an interactive, AI-powered assistant now live on the Netskope Community!
Whether you’re deploying a new feature or optimizing your existing Netskope configuration, SCALE Agent is designed to provide immediate, guided support to help you achieve faster time-to-value.
What you can do with SCALE Agent:
- Guided Onboarding & Feature Adoption: Get step-by-step guidance tailored to your deployment goals.
- Best Practice Advice: Quick answers and recommendations sourced directly from official Netskope documentation and Knowledge Base guides.
- 24/7 Self-Service Assistance: Resolve configuration questions instantly without waiting for support tickets or searching manually through docs.
📍 Where to find it:
- Visit the Netskope Community.
- Head over to the Adoption Hub section.
- Click the SCALE Agent icon on the bottom right of the page to start your guided journey!
⭐️ Customer Favourite This Month: Netskope AI Security — Agentic Governance
Netskope's latest releases (R142) bring powerful controls for securing AI agents, LLMs, and GenAI applications — all natively within Netskope One.
Top highlights customers love:
- Endpoint AI Discovery in AICC (AI Command Center): Discovers AI assets running on managed Windows and macOS endpoints through the Netskope Client. Now generally available. Netskope Client AI Discovery | AI Command Center
- Risk Assessment for AI Apps, MCP Servers and Identities (AI Command Center): A unified Risk badge with a confidence indicator replaces separate risk score and verdict values. [add link]
- General Availability (GA) of AI Guardrails On Demand (Netskope Hosted and User Hosted): A standalone REST API, or a VM you deploy on-prem or in your VPC, that scans AI prompts and Multilingual Testing Support responses in real time. It integrates with API gateways (LiteLLM, Kong, Apigee). AI Guardrails Docs
- New Prompt Sandbox Feature (AI Guardrails): Test prompts and responses against AI Guardrails profiles and tune confidence levels before deploying policies on live traffic.
- General Availability (GA) of Agent Action Control (formerly Agent Guardrails): Includes a User Alert action for Human-in-the-Loop Support, so users can approve AI agent actions before they run.
- Multilingual Testing Support(AI Red Teaming): Adversarial safety testing across 23 languages, with code-switching attacks and side-by-side Attack Success Rate comparison.
Why it matters: Organizations get more visibility into AI assets and agent activity, can test and tune AI guardrails before enforcing them, and can add human approval for agent actions.
🔗 Further Reading:
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See you next month with our November 2026 Highlights!
Warm Regards,
Netskope Customer Experience Team
