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This is a discussion board on Netskope Private Access, a cloud-based zero-trust network access solution that provides fast and secure access to private applications that are hosted in public clouds or enterprise data centers

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jschueleNew Member III
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NPA Browser Access HTTP vs HTTPS

So i configured a test private application to use HTTP browser access. FYI, the the app is hosted in our AWS environment and uses an auto-generated Amazon certificate. After enabling developer tools in my Chrome browser it clearly shows the session is still using TLS encryption. The only thing visibly different by enabling HTTP vs HTTPS in the private app configuration is it adds 80 to the unique URL name. Everything else appears to be encrypted. Can you explain in more detail what the difference between configuring HTTP and HTTPS?

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NPA Unreachable Host

HiI have an internal application accessible by PublisherA and PublisherB which are deployed in different location.If PublisherA failed to access the internal application while PublisherB was able accessible, does my client will still try to connect to PublisherA?thank

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jschueleNew Member III
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NPA Browser Access

So i configured a test private application to use HTTP browser access. FYI, the the app is hosted in our AWS environment and uses an auto-generated Amazon certificate. After enabling developer tools in my Chrome browser it clearly shows the session is still using TLS encryption. The only thing visibly different by enabling HTTP vs HTTPS in the private app configuration is it adds 80 to the unique URL name. Everything else appears to be encrypted. Can you explain in more detail what the difference between configuring HTTP and HTTPS?

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rohit_chandnaNew Member III
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How threat detection works in NPA

Hi All,How would Netskope detect if lets say a compromised machines is uploading malware in the payload towards the server or lets say ho their stack is detection Remote File Inclusion, Remote Code Execution ,Cross-Site Scripting ,SQL Injection etc for NPA connection.

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Netskope Integrates Wiz.io Webhooks for Real-time Policy Enforcement

In cloud security, staying ahead of potential threats is crucial. As organizations continue to embrace cloud technologies, ensuring robust security measures becomes increasingly complex. To address this challenge, Netskope is proud to announce an exciting new integration, empowering users to proactively safeguard their resources across hyperscaler environments like never before.Introducing the Integration of Wiz Webhooks with Netskope APINetskope, a leader in cloud security, has partnered with Wiz, a renowned cloud security platform, to introduce seamless integration of Wiz webhooks with the Netskope API. This collaboration enables customers to leverage real-time insights from Wiz's comprehensive cloud security platform directly within Netskope.Proactive Policy Enforcement for Hyperscaler ResourcesOne of the key highlights of this integration is the ability to create dynamic policy changes in Netskope based on vulnerabilities detected by Wiz for your AWS, Azure, and GCP resources. By h

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Create a NPA policy via REST Api

Hello,I’d like to create a new NPA policy via REST Api.I wonder if this part is needed:"rule_order": {                          "order": "top",                          "rule_name": "api-policy-managed",      "rule_id": 1,                          "position": 5                        }I don’t know the “rule_id” as it’s not created yet. Could I just skip it?What is default order for newly created policy within provided "group_id" and "group_name"?What about other parts like "dlp_actions", “privateAppsWithActivities”, "net_location_obj", "srcCountries"  - should be skipped if not needed? Best regards

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jgournetNew Member III
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[Small feature request] icon color

Hey there,This might sound silly (because it is), but would it be possible to have a different icon color when private apps are disabled ?ie: having a more orange-y color when private apps are disabled, so users can know they need to re-auth (instead of showing a green dot that implies “all is good” when it is actually not).Cheers

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WWWNew Member
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best practice for the publisher implementation behind the FW

Where is the recommanded location (DMZ or Server zone) to implement the publisher in the firewall protected environment? All the port need to be opened to the back-end servers on the firewall?is the traffice flow is correct?End-users → tunnel  →  publisher -->(open all required ports on the FW ) → App servers

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Deepak_InfoTruNetskope Partner
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PQDNs or short name doesn`t work in Netskope Private Access

Hi there,We have created apps definition with FQDN and PQDN, but we are able to access the application with FQDN and not with PQDN. We have DNS Search Domain update from DHCP which is correct domain and also edited the 51-cloud-init.yaml  file with the correct domains in publisher. But still access with PQDN doesn`t work.Does anyone has any idea what next can be done? I have already raised Netskope Support, but would like to quick resolution if anyone has faced this issue.

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jschueleNew Member III
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NPA and DNS resolution issues

Netskope is not compatible with Google or Cloudflare public DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 1.1.1.1). This is well known and prevents resolution by NPA for all our configured private apps. Based upon our testing (and trial and error) the following public DNS servers are working with NPA for our users and we must update our fleet of Macs as needed.Comcast (Xfinity):  75.75.75.75, 75.75.76.76AT&T:   68.94.156.1, 68.94.157.1Frontier:  185.228.168.168, 185.228.169.168Quad9 Public DNS Servers: 9.9.9.9, 149.112.112.112Fortinet Public DNS servers : 208.91.112.52 , 208.91.112.53 I would like to suggest Netskope maintain a list of known good public DNS servers that work with NPA. This would include updating the list when necessary, due to services not working anymore, etc. In a Work From Home (WFH), traveling, or foreign work force environment, we consistently run into problems with access to private apps due to this issue.   As a final resol

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Saif-ChaudhryNew Member
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Enable Secure Access To Azure PaaS Services Using Azure Private Endpoint and Netskope Private Access

What is Azure Private Endpoint? Cloud Security Architects often make use of “Azure Private Endpoints” to enable access to Azure PaaS services. There are many Azure PaaS Services that supports Private Endpoints e.g., Azure Storage, Azure App Services, Azure CosmoDB, Azure SQL Database, etc. This eliminates the need for the service to be publicly accessible. Access to these private endpoints use Microsoft backbone network without ever going over the public Internet. Private endpoint is a network interface that uses a private IP address from your virtual network. This network interface connects you privately and securely to a service that's powered by Azure Private Link. By enabling a private endpoint, you're bringing the service into your virtual network.   When you bring your Azure PaaS services into your private virtual network all traffic to the service is now routed through the private endpoint and traffic remains on the Microsoft global network. In this architecture and design,

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hungnn3009New Member
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Azure Virtual Desktop with ZTNA Pricate Access

Hi everyone We are deploying single session Azure Virtual desktop and are in design phase where we will put the Ztna agent into the session host so user can have access to private network (on prem). The network infrastructure (in azure and firewall) already in place and our job is to installing agent and start testingWe would like to know any best practice of how ztna agent is working inside Azure virtual desktop, anything we need to consider? Also another challange we got with Ztna agent is that the Ztna team will also install the agent in our SoE laptop. That should be fine but we would need to whitelist all AVD gateway address .so that the AVD client can connect to Azure virtual desktop gateway in the cloud. So far based on microsoft article they recommend to whitelist all *.wvd.microsoft.com but the Ztna team is only happy to whitelist based on IP addresses which pose the risk as the IP address of AVD gateway will keep changing and we may run into the risk of Soe Laptop cannot conn

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nesi10062New Member
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Remote Access (RDP/Teradichi) via Private Access runs slow

Hi, I have two local publishers that I use to maintain remote access to Windows PCs in my office. Unfortunately, the users have been complaining nonstop about slow connection speeds and instability issues. It doesn't seem to be a port issue because the problem still occurs even when all ports are enabled. Can you please help me resolve this? 🤔 🤔

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NPA - Tunnel Down Events

Hello, I've been using NPA successfully but I am noticing quite a lot of tunnel down events from several users, a couple events are caused by the device hybernation which we could somewhat address it by disabling the modern hybernation via GPO but the tunnel down remains and NPA does a very poor job on providing more details on what could be the reason for it. How can I get more details about those events? Also, how can I get these events on a report? it would be very valuable for us to have a widget of sorts with top 10 problems, I need to be the first one ot know if a user tunnel is failing to establish. Thanks.

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SagaNew Member
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Short name resolution on NPA

Hello, I have a problem with the resolution of short names on NPA.Access to my FQDN resources works perfectly. But with the short name, the resolution doesn't work.I have a private app DNS with host "*.mydomain.local" and port 53.Resolution works perfectly on my publishers.My network openings are made on the firewall side.But despite all this, I have the impression that the client is trying to resolve via public DNS rather than my local DNS, even though these are correctly configured in the publisher's revolv.conf (as is the domain name). Do you have a suggestion?Thank you

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Gu7zNew Member III
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[ CLI ] Re-authenticate for private apps

Is it possible to use the option "re-authenticate for private apps" from CLI in linux?I know you can use the stAgentCli to check its status with show-pa command but I would like to make a command in my personal computer to auto-login into the vpn

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Agent Configuration - Private Access Errored

HiI have installed win10 agent in office thru our legacy proxy.    I can see that the network was steered to nsk when in office, however NPA was having error I have reinstalled, enable traffic bypass  in legacy proxy and firewall but the error persisted.  If I installed via public wifi, NPA was successful.What is the log I should start tracing this error?Thank

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NewEdge Traffic Management Gateway Selection

Netskope Private Access now consumes NewEdge Traffic Management 2.0(GSLB) for optimizing the DC selection for Client as well as for Publishers. Customers can take following advantages with this feature,  DC selection is no longer DNS There is no dependency on Google DNS or LDNS for POP selection (the last hop recursive DNS resolver). APIs are hosted within existing allow listed NewEdge IP range, no additional network changes needed.  Improved granularity for geolocation of public IP egresses. DNS-based methods (EDNS/ECS0/Google DNS) can only utilize a /24 of the public IP. The GSLB service can better geolocate as it has the entire IP address /32 instead of a /24 advantage for gateway selection. DC selections according to geographic distance, with in-country preference. For example, if an endpoint in the south of France is very close to Barcelona, the Netskope Client will prefer a DC in France, even if it is physically farther away than the NewEdge Barcelona DC. New

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NPA Detailed Architecture

Hi Team ,    Can anyone help me the Detailed Architecture for NPA traffic starting from user device till it access the application including the auth type,Identification, Encryption , tunnel that exist all across the traffic flow.

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aplaza
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aplazaNetskope Employee
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Recap: Time to Give Your VPN a Reboot

Curious about how to make the leap to Zero Trust Connectivity?    Discover the limitations of traditional VPNs and learn how to migrate from VPN to ZTNA Next from a Netskope customer—Jeff Wehrman (@jwehrman), Sr. Staff Cybersecurity Engineer, at Dexcom in this webinar recap! The recording, slide deck and a summary of the Q&A can be found below:   Watch on-demand   Q: Netskope is not a total replacement for VPN, which means not supporting server to client flow. How can we overcome this? A: You bring up an important point. Most ZTNAs do not support server-initiated but Netskope ZTNA Next supports both client and server-initiated flows. Q: When within your office, is Netskope Private Access (NPA) engaged or does it go offline? A: Short answer is it stays engaged. The Netskope Client, which steers user traffic, is always on whether in office or remote. It can be configured to steer that traffic to the Netskope Cloud or a local ZTNA Broker ad

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aplaza
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aplazaNetskope Employee
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Time to Give Your VPN a Reboot

Tired of outdated VPNs? Discover how to make the leap to Zero Trust Connectivity from a Netskope customer! Jeff Wehrman, Sr. Staff Cybersecurity Engineer, at Dexcom will share how he successfully retired their VPN with ZTNA Next in this webinar.   November 15th - 8am PST November 16th - 3pm AEDT   What you will learn: Hear about the major ways that remote access has evolved over the past three decades Learn deployment lessons from a Netskope customer who has successfully retired their VPN Witness Netskope ZTNA Next in action with a live demo

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jschueleNew Member III
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Clientless access to private app

We have an internal AWS hosted app, thats not reachable from the internet, and we need to provide access to an external partner that doesn't have the NS Client. Can I use NPA and configure a new private app with Allow Browser Access enabled to do this? Or, what are other good options? Thx

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Zulkifal
ZulkifalExplorer III
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Does NPA support IPv6 DNS servers?

Hello Team, Users can't use the NPA Application when the DNS server is set to IPv6. It appears that NPA can't work with IPv6 DNS queries to match the SRP installed. I found some community posts for MAC OS where users recommended turning off IPV6. Does NPA work with IPV6 DNS servers, or are there any limitations?

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elawaetzExplorer III
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NPA Terraform - failing to loop over multiple maps

I'm trying to build a module (currently just playing with locals directly in main.tf) which will build an instance of a private app. for each DC and tie it to the local publishers in that DC. That part is working, but I am failing to also tie the protocols fields correctly in and iterate over those as well, as the attached code will fail if either of the protocol ports fields are empty (in the case where an app only has tcp or udp ports defined). @sshiflett ?

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TjhiaSNew Member
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Netskope Client with Azure AD Conditional access

Has anyone have a setup where you roll out Netskope client to all your endpoints and configure Azure AD conditional access to allow connections to Microsoft services if they come via Netskope IP? we are doing this as part of our own ZTNA setup to only allow trusted devices/location.  The setup works well with one minor problem. Netskope will have occasionally tunnel down/up (e.g. switching from LAN/docked to Wifi, etc) and that causes netskope to disabled momentarily before re-enabling again. (which means momentarily it shows attempting connection from non netskope IP) This then lead to services e.g. teams, outlook etc require authentication immidiately which is not the best end user experience.  Has anyone encounter this and able to suggest solution/workaround? I dont want to change trusted location to country based as that defeat the purpose of the ZTNA we are doing.

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