CE v6.1.0 GA & CE plugins

Netskope Cloud Exchange is cybersecurity industry’s leading technology integration platform empowering global organizations to unify their siloed security tools & optimize their ROI. 

We are announcing the general availability of Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) v6.1.0 patch release with the following enhancements:

1. Azure Key Vault
   • Azure Key Vault secures passwords, cryptographic keys, and secrets with enhanced compliance, control, and global scalability to protect cloud apps seamlessly.
   • CE now supports integration with Azure Key Vault. Please refer to Prerequisites for Azure Key Vault Secrets Manager - Netskope Knowledge Portal for more details. 
2. CRE Enhancements
   • Added normalization options at the schema editor to improve security context mapping 
   • Added risk score/context stats in Risk Exchange Dashboard
3. DLP (EDM & CFC) Module Enhancements
   • Added support for different delimiters in the EDM Module, like comma, pipe, semi-colon and custom delimiter.
   • Improved rate limiting in the EDM hash upload with 5 maximum retries at 5-second interval.
4. Other Key Enhancements
   • Added CE UI workflow for renewing expired SSL certificates.
   • Added CE UI workflow for generating and downloading the diagnostic logs.
5. NEW & UPDATED Plugins
   • Netskope Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) plugin NOW supports Destination Profile that allows Netskope administrators to manage a configurable set of network targets (IP addresses, domains, URLs) used to define policy enforcement and scanning rules.
   • Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) Sentinel One Singularity XDR | Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) Sentinel One Singularity XDR plugin fetches device security context from MS Intune and shares it with Netskope to enable Zero Trust Security policy enforcement 
   • Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) Microsoft Intune | CRE Microsoft Intune plugin fetches device security context from MS Intune and shares it with Netskope to enable Zero Trust Security policy enforcement 
   • Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight | CRE CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight plugin fetches device security context based on vulnerabilities and exposures from CRE Crowdstrike Falcon Spotlight and shares it with Netskope to enable Zero Trust Security policy enforcement 
   • Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) Tenable | CRE Tenable plugin fetches device security context based on vulnerabilities and exposures from MS Intune and shares it with Netskope to enable Zero Trust Security policy enforcement 
   • Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) Thales Imperva | CTE Thales Imperva plugin fetches app/workload security context from Thales Imperva and shares it with Netskope to enable Zero Trust Security policy enforcement
   • Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) Qualys | CRE Qualys plugin fetches device risk context and shares it with Netskope to enable Zero Trust Security policy enforcement. 
   • Exact Data Match (EDM) SMB File Share | EDM SMB File Share plugin is designed to fetch a CSV file from a remote SMB server (Windows/Linux) and generate Exact Data Match (EDM) hashes from the data.
6. Key customer bug fixes, latest & greatest security patches/updates

Please refer to the CE v6.1.0 release notes at Netskope Cloud Exchange Release Notes Version 6.1.0 - Netskope Knowledge Portal

AWS Marketplace (AMI) 

AWS Marketplace: Netskope Cloud Exchange AMI

Azure Marketplace (VHDX) 

https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/netskope.netskope_cloud_exchange?tab=Overview

VMware OVA, Microsoft Hyper V and KVM

https://cloud-exchange-store.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/cloudexchange/ova/cloud-exchange-6.1.0-20260427.ova

https://cloud-exchange-store.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/cloudexchange/ova/cloud-exchange-6.1.0-Hyper-V-vhdx-20260427.zip

https://cloud-exchange-store.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/cloudexchange/ova/cloud-exchange-6.1.0-kvm-20260427.qcow2 

GitHub 

netskopeoss/ta_cloud_exchange

Customers are strongly recommended to deploy/upgrade/migrate to CE v6.1.0 to strengthen the security posture of their digital ecosystem.

Please refer to CE v6.1.0 UPGRADE/MIGRATION procedure at the links below:

Upgrade Cloud Exchange - Netskope Knowledge Portal

Migrate Cloud Exchange - Netskope Knowledge Portal

The tentative ETA for the next CE v6.x patch with latest and greatest enhancements, performance improvements, customer critical bug fixes and security updates is July 2026.

IMPORTANT NOTE

1. CE v5.0.1 reached EOL on Jan 31, 2026
2. CE v4.2 and v5.0.0 already reached EOL on Jan 31, 2025 
3. Please refer to CE Product Life Cycle at About Cloud Exchange - Netskope Knowledge Portal for more details.