Gartner Forecasts Global Security and Risk Management (SRM) Spending to Grow 14% in 2024
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Worldwide end-user spending on security and risk management is projected to total $215 billion in 2024, an increase of 14.3% from 2023, according to new forecast from Gartner, Inc.
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The continuous adoption of cloud, continuous hybrid workforce, rapid emergence and use of generative AI (GenAI), and the evolving regulatory environment are forcing security and risk management (SRM) leaders to enhance their security and risk management spending.
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At the same time, they are focusing their efforts by adopting technical security capabilities that provide far greater visibility and responsiveness across the organization’s entire digital ecosystem and restructuring the way the security function operates to enable agility without compromising security.
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Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) enables a collaborative ecosystem of tools and controls to secure a modern, distributed enterprise. It builds on a strategy of integrating composable, distributed security tools to achieve more effective collaboration between tools.
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Key use cases driving business critical outcomes through cybersecurity posture management across global digital infrastructure include:
a. Enable adaptive zero trust security policy enforcement based on enriched risk context (users, devices, network, apps/workloads, data) aligning with NIST CSF
b. granular visibility into security events, alerts and transactions
c. automated life cycle management of tickets & incidents
d. near real time sharing of threat intel in the form of malicious IP addresses, hosts, domains, file hashes
Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) v5.1 release empowers global organizations with the following new features and enhancements to fortify the security posture of their digital ecosystem:
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Unified Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE)
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Unified Cloud Risk Exchange (CRE) provides Netskope’s SSE portfolio with rich user and application risk context enabling global organizations/businesses to enforce adaptive zero trust security policies across on prem/hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
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Key Unified CRE integrations include Microsoft Entra, Crowdstrike Identity Protect, Crowdstrike Cloud Security (CNAPP), Okta, Wiz & more.
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Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) IoC Source Labeling & Retraction
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Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) IoC Source Labelling enables customers to identify the origin of the IoCs shared between Netskope and third party Threat Intel Providers (TIP) like Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, MISP, Anomali etc.,
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Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) IoC Retraction enables customers to remove/rollback IoCs shared between Netskope and third party Threat Intel Providers (TIP) like Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, MISP, Anomali etc.,
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Cloud Ticket Orchestrator (CTO) Ticket/Incident Lifecycle Management
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Cloud Ticket Orchestrator (CTO) now enables customers to manage complete lifecycle of business critical tickets/incidents between Netskope and third party ITSM tools like ServiceNOW, JIRA etc.,
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Ticket Orchestrator v2.0.0 Plugin - Netskope Knowledge Portal
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Cloud Log Shipper (CLS) Support for Endpoint (Device & Content) Events & Alerts
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Cloud Log Shipper (CLS) now provides customers with visibility into Endpoint (Device & Content) Events & Alerts as documented at Endpoint Events - Netskope Knowledge Portal
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NEW Plugins for Netskope Tenant and Web TX:
We are pleased to announce that Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) v5.1 GA images are now LIVE at:
Important NOTE
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Please refer to the detailed CE v5.1 GA release notes at Netskope Cloud Exchange Release Notes Version 5.1.0 - Netskope Knowledge Portal
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CE v5.1 GA does NOT support CE "Small" stack sizing. The minimum system requirements for CE v5.1 GA are documented at ta_cloud_exchange/README.md at main · netskopeoss/ta_cloud_exchange AND Cloud Exchange System Requirements - Netskope Knowledge Portal
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Customers looking to deploy CE v5.1 on AWS ECS Fargate are strongly recommended to deploy CE v5.1 AWS AMI
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Customers looking to deploy CE v5.1 on OpenShift/K8S using Helm Chart are strongly recommended to deploy CE v5.1 as a Container/VM
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Customers running CE v3.x deployments are STRONGLY recommended to migrate to CE v4.2.x and then to CE v5.1
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For more details on Upgrade/Migration to CE v5.1, please refer to Upgrade or Migrate to the Latest Version of Cloud Exchange - Netskope Knowledge Portal
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Customers running standalone CLS and CTE deployments are STRONGLY recommended to deploy fresh CE v5.1 instances
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Please note that CE v3.x reached EOL/EOS on 31st January 2024. CE v4.0.x and CE v4.1 reached EOL/EOS on 31st July 2024. CE v4.2 and CE v5.0.0 will reach EOL/EOS on 31st January 2025. Please refer to About Cloud Exchange - Netskope Knowledge Portal for more details on CE product lifecycle and support policy.
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Supported Upgrade/Migration Paths:
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CE v3.x --> CE v4.2 --> CE v5.1 (Standalone/HA)
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CE v4.x --> CE v4.2 --> CE v5.1 (Standalone/HA)
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CE v4.2 --> CE v5.1 (Standalone/HA)
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CE v5.x --> CE v5.1 (Standalone/HA)
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Migration from CE v5.0.x (HA) to CE v5.1 (Standalone) deployment is NOT supported.
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Please note that the following CE Professional Services SKUs are NOW available to quote:
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NK-PS-CE-BASE
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NK-PS-ADDON-CEM
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Please reach out to ps-scoping@netskope.com for more details.
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For customer/prospects interested in CEaaS/Managed CE offering from Crest, please refer to the following links:
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Please reach out to following email alias for CE queries/clarifications/support