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Netskope carries its customers' production traffic. An enterprise sends its web, cloud, private-app, and AI traffic through the NewEdge network under policy it tunes, so replacing it would mean re-routing traffic and rebuilding that policy, friction inferred from the deployment rather than documented migrations. The controls, secure web gateway, CASB, zero trust access, firewall, and data-loss prevention, are software rivals such as Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks also run inline. What a rival would take time to match is the installed traffic relationship across the SEC-filed 4,733 customers and the Cloud Confidence Index catalog of tens of thousands of SaaS and AI apps. Net retention of 113%, down from 117% a year earlier, shows spend in that base still expanding, though more slowly.
| Description | Cloud-delivered security and networking platform (Netskope One) that converges SSE and SASE, secure web gateway, CASB, ZTNA, cloud firewall, DLP, and SD-WAN over a global private network, with a generative-AI security line layered on the same inline path. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | [f2] |
| HQ | Santa Clara, California, United States | [f3] |
| Funding | $908.2M total | [f4] |
| Latest funding | IPO on the Nasdaq (NTSK), September 2025 | [f4] |
| Deployment | SaaS | [f5] |
| Compliance | CSA STAR Level 2, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 2 Type 2 | [f5] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Netskope | The Netskope One converged platform unifying security and networking services on a single console, the Zero Trust Engine, and the NewEdge private network. |
| Netskope One SSE | Security service edge bundle converging secure web gateway, CASB, and zero trust network access with a single-pass inline architecture. |
| Netskope One Next Gen SWG | Secure web gateway that tunnels web, SaaS, and AI traffic to apply inline policy, block malware, filter sites, and control cloud apps. |
| Netskope One CASB | Cloud access security broker giving inline and API-based visibility and control over thousands of SaaS apps, including Microsoft 365 and Teams. |
| Netskope One Private Access | Zero trust network access service that replaces remote-access VPNs with identity- and context-based access to private applications. |
| Netskope One DLP | Data loss prevention using fingerprinting, OCR, exact data matching, and machine-learning classification across cloud, web, email, and endpoints. |
| Netskope One Cloud Firewall | Firewall as a service controlling egress traffic across all ports and protocols at layers 3 to 7, with DNS security and intrusion prevention. |
| Netskope One GenAI Security | Generative-AI security line that discovers shadow AI and inspects prompts and responses inline, applying DLP and runtime guardrails. |
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
Netskope discovers generative-AI use including shadow AI and inspects prompts and responses inline, applying DLP and guardrails to block data leakage and AI threats. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f6]
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
Netskope's Cloud Access Security Broker, Data Loss Prevention, Secure Web Gateway, and Private Access products defend conventional enterprise assets. These product lines are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f7]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 4/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 4/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 5/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 4/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 4/5 |
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| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 3/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 2/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Netskope One: Cloud-native Converged Security and Networking | official | 2026-06-23 |
| f2 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K (year ended January 31, 2026) | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| f3 | Netskope Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering | official | 2026-06-14 |
| f4 | Netskope prices IPO at $19, valuing company at $7.3 billion (CNBC, 2025-09-17) | press | 2026-06-28 |
| f5 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry | other | 2026-06-13 |
| f6 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping | other | 2026-06-23 |
| f7 | Netskope products overview page | official | 2026-06-12 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Netskope One: Cloud-native Converged Security and Networking “The Netskope One Orchestrator provides a single point for policy management across all components of the Netskope One platform. The 100% cloud-based console unifies management of SSE, SD-WAN, AI security, and data security.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s2 | Netskope Security Service Edge (Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader since 2022) “Netskope is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge, maintaining a Leader position since the report's inception in 2022. In the latest report you'll discover why we were placed Furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s3 | Netskope One Next Gen Secure Web Gateway (SWG) “Netskope One Next Gen SWG provides capabilities to prevent malware, detect advanced threats, filter websites by category, protect data, and control apps and cloud services for any user, location, or device.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s4 | Netskope One CASB advanced data loss protection (DLP technologies) “Netskope One DLP Includes predefined regulatory and best practices compliance templates and supports technologies like file and binary fingerprinting, optical character recognition (OCR), exact data matching, and machine learning-enhanced image classification.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s5 | Netskope One Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) “Netskope One FWaaS enables firewall rules for all ports and protocols to only allow what is desired. DNS security with FWaaS also blocks known risky domains. IPS with FWaaS provides blocking of known network threats including command and control (C2).” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s6 | Securing Generative AI with Netskope One (Cloud Confidence Index) “Netskope Cloud Confidence Index (CCI) covers over 370 genAI apps and 82,000+ SaaS applications, helping organizations proactively understand AI-related risks, including data usage, third-party sharing, and model training behaviors.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s7 | Netskope Security, Compliance and Assurance (CSA STAR, ENS) “View our CSA STAR Level II Certification. Netskope is certified in the High category of the National Security Scheme (Esquema Nacional de Seguridad).” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s8 | Netskope customers (Colgate-Palmolive, ManTech testimonials) “Netskope is a valued partner for us, seamlessly integrating networking and security into a single platform and streamlining our data protection processes. Antony Afonso, Director, Security & Network Engineering, Colgate-Palmolive Company.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s9 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: founded 2012, revenue $709.0M (year ended January 31, 2026) “We were founded in 2012 and have been growing rapidly over the last several years, with revenue of $709.0 million, $538.3 million, and $406.9 million for fiscal 2026, fiscal 2025, and fiscal 2024, respectively.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s10 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: net losses and accumulated deficit “We generated net losses of $679.4 million, $354.5 million, and $344.9 million for fiscal 2026, fiscal 2025, and fiscal 2024, respectively. As of January 31, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of $2.6 billion.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s11 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: 4,733 customers, Fortune 100 and Forbes Global 2000 penetration “As of January 31, 2026, we had 4,733 customers, which represented a 21% year-over-year increase from 3,913 customers. Approximately one-third of the Fortune 100 and approximately 19% of the Forbes Global 2000 were our customers.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s12 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: large-ARR customers “As of January 31, 2026, we had 1,531 customers with ARR over $100,000, representing 86% of our total ARR. This reflects a 22% year-over-year increase from 1,254 as of January 31, 2025.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s13 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: partner concentration “Sales through our top five partners and their affiliates, in aggregate, represented 35% of our revenue for fiscal 2026 and 33% of our revenue for fiscal 2025.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s14 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: FedRAMP High Authorization “U.S. federal government agencies, supported by our recent FedRAMP High Authorization.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s15 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: Sanjay Beri co-founder and CEO “We are highly dependent on the services of Sanjay Beri, our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, who is critical to our future vision and strategic direction.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s16 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: revenue $201.6M (quarter ended April 30, 2026) “We were founded in 2012 and have been growing rapidly over the last several years, with revenue of $201.6 million and $157.7 million for the three months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s17 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: quarterly net loss “We generated net losses of $116.5 million and $79.2 million for the three months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively. As of April 30, 2026, we had an accumulated deficit of $2.7 billion.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s18 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: dollar-based net retention rate “As of April 30, 2026 2025 Dollar-based net retention rate (1) 113 % 117 %.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s19 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: liquidity “As of April 30, 2026, our principal source of liquidity was available cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities aggregating to $1.1 billion.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s20 | Dell'Oro Group: SASE up 22% to $2.7B in 2Q 2025 (2025-09-09) “The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market surged 22 percent year-over-year (Y/Y) in 2Q 2025 to $2.7 B. This marked the third consecutive quarter of accelerating growth, fueled by enterprises upgrading to AI-ready branch architectures that blend SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE).” | research | 2026-06-28 |
| s21 | Dell'Oro Group: top six SASE vendors own 72% of the market (2024-12-17) “The top six SASE vendors, Zscaler, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom, Fortinet, and Netskope, each with greater than 5 percent revenue share, grew their collective market share to 72 percent.” | research | 2026-06-28 |
| s22 | CNBC: Netskope prices IPO at $19, valuing company at $7.3 billion (2025-09-17) “Cybersecurity company Netskope is eying a $7.3 billion valuation after pricing shares at $19 for its upcoming IPO. Netskope will start trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NTSK. The share sale raised $908.2 million.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s23 | SDxCentral: Netskope tops Forrester SASE rankings (Giacomo Lee, 2025-09-09) “Netskope was positioned at the top of the leaderboard, with the researchers commending the firm for NewEdge's unified platform as the backbone of its private global network. Forrester noted Netskope's pricing as complicated and higher than its rivals.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s24 | NVD: CVE-2025-0309 Netskope Client local privilege escalation “An insufficient validation on the server connection endpoint in Netskope Client allows local users to elevate privileges on the system.” | other | 2026-06-28 |
| s25 | NVD: CVE-2024-7402 Netskope Client configuration tampering “Netskope has identified a potential gap in its agent (Netskope Client) in which a malicious insider can potentially tamper the Netskope Client configuration by performing MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) activity on the Netskope Client communication channel.” | other | 2026-06-28 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Netskope One Zero Trust Engine across SWG, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, FWaaS, SD-WAN “The Netskope Zero Trust Engine sits at the center of the Netskope One platform, ensuring that continuous adaptive trust-based policy controls extend effortlessly and consistently across secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA).” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s2 | Netskope NewEdge global private cloud (300+ network adjacencies) “NewEdge utilizes extensive partnerships representing 300+ network adjacencies, including direct Microsoft and Google peering at every data center, and delivers a future-proof, SASE-ready architecture with breadth and depth at scale.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s3 | Netskope One DLP technologies (fingerprinting, OCR, exact data matching) “Netskope One DLP Includes predefined regulatory and best practices compliance templates and supports technologies like file and binary fingerprinting, optical character recognition (OCR), exact data matching, and machine learning-enhanced image classification.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s4 | Netskope Cloud Confidence Index (370+ genAI, 82,000+ SaaS apps) “Netskope Cloud Confidence Index (CCI) covers over 370 genAI apps and 82,000+ SaaS applications, helping organizations proactively understand AI-related risks, including data usage, third-party sharing, and model training behaviors.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s5 | Netskope Security, Compliance and Assurance (CSA STAR, ENS) “View our CSA STAR Level II Certification. Netskope is certified in the High category of the National Security Scheme (Esquema Nacional de Seguridad).” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s6 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: FedRAMP High Authorization “U.S. federal government agencies, supported by our recent FedRAMP High Authorization.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s7 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: 4,733 customers, Fortune 100 and Forbes Global 2000 penetration “As of January 31, 2026, we had 4,733 customers, which represented a 21% year-over-year increase from 3,913 customers. Approximately one-third of the Fortune 100 and approximately 19% of the Forbes Global 2000 were our customers.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s8 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: founded 2012, revenue $709.0M “We were founded in 2012 and have been growing rapidly over the last several years, with revenue of $709.0 million, $538.3 million, and $406.9 million for fiscal 2026, fiscal 2025, and fiscal 2024, respectively.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s9 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: partner concentration “Sales through our top five partners and their affiliates, in aggregate, represented 35% of our revenue for fiscal 2026 and 33% of our revenue for fiscal 2025.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s10 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: Sanjay Beri co-founder and CEO “We are highly dependent on the services of Sanjay Beri, our co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, who is critical to our future vision and strategic direction.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s11 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: dollar-based net retention rate “As of April 30, 2026 2025 Dollar-based net retention rate (1) 113 % 117 %.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s12 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: quarterly net loss “We generated net losses of $116.5 million and $79.2 million for the three months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s13 | Netskope Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q: liquidity “As of April 30, 2026, our principal source of liquidity was available cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities aggregating to $1.1 billion.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
| s14 | Dell'Oro Group: top six SASE vendors own 72 percent of the market (2024-12-17) “The top six SASE vendors, Zscaler, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom, Fortinet, and Netskope, each with greater than 5 percent revenue share, grew their collective market share to 72 percent.” | research | 2026-06-28 |
| s15 | SDxCentral: Netskope tops Forrester SASE rankings (Giacomo Lee, 2025-09-09) “Netskope was positioned at the top of the leaderboard, with the researchers commending the firm for NewEdge's unified platform as the backbone of its private global network. Forrester noted Netskope's pricing as complicated and higher than its rivals.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s16 | CNBC: Netskope prices IPO at $19, valuing company at $7.3 billion (2025-09-17) “Cybersecurity company Netskope is eying a $7.3 billion valuation after pricing shares at $19 for its upcoming IPO. Netskope will start trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NTSK. The share sale raised $908.2 million.” | press | 2026-06-28 |
| s17 | NVD: CVE-2025-0309 Netskope Client local privilege escalation “An insufficient validation on the server connection endpoint in Netskope Client allows local users to elevate privileges on the system.” | other | 2026-06-28 |
| s18 | Netskope customers (Colgate-Palmolive, ManTech testimonials) “Netskope is a valued partner for us, seamlessly integrating networking and security into a single platform and streamlining our data protection processes. Antony Afonso, Director, Security & Network Engineering, Colgate-Palmolive Company.” | official | 2026-06-28 |
| s19 | Netskope FY2026 Form 10-K: large-ARR customers “As of January 31, 2026, we had 1,531 customers with ARR over $100,000, representing 86% of our total ARR. This reflects a 22% year-over-year increase from 1,254 as of January 31, 2025.” | regulatory | 2026-06-28 |
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