Company:Netskope, Inc

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Netskope, Inc.
TypePrivately held company
Founded2012
FounderSanjay Beri, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, Krishna Narayanaswamy
HeadquartersLos Altos, California, United States
Key people
Sanjay Beri (CEO)
ProductsNetskope Active Platform, Netskope for Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Google Apps, Office 365, Salesforce, Cloud DLP, Encryption
Number of employees
300+
Websitewww.netskope.com

Netskope, Inc. is an American software company founded in 2012 that helps companies find, understand, and secure software-as-a-service (SaaS) in use by their employees. Netskope is in a category of technology classified by Gartner as cloud access security brokers.[1] Netskope Recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers[2]

Netskope is based in Los Altos, California, with a software development office in Bangalore, India.

History

Netskope was founded by Sanjay Beri, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Krishna Narayanaswamy, with $21.4 million in funding.[3]

Several of the company's early employees were distinguished engineers and principal architects from companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks/Netscreen, and McAfee/IntruVert.

Founder Sanjay Beri became the company CEO in 2012. In October 2013 the company launched and made its software generally available.[4] In that same month, it announced the formation of an advisory team and appointed Enrique Salem, former Symantec Chairman and CEO to its board of directors.[5]

On May 15 2014, Netskope announced [6] series C funding of $35 million led by Accel Partners and added Eric Wolford, Partner at Accel, to its board of directors.

On Jun 6, 2017 Netskope raised series E funding of $100 million resulting to total funding of $231 million[7] and joining Silicon Valley's unicorn club. [8]

On July 19, 2016 Netskope, based on the work of Krishna Narayanswamy, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, and Sanjay Beri, received United States Patent 9,398,102 for the security of a network delivered service. [9]

Technology

Netskope software is delivered as an SaaS via a distributed cloud in SOC-2 data centers. The solution steers cloud and SaaS network traffic to a cloud-native service for the purposes of inspection. Clients of Netskope log into the software via web browser interface where they can access analytics on cloud, SaaS app usage, and set policies to control and secure specific usage behavior or alert an administrator. Netskope offers different deployment options for traffic steering for analysis and policy control. These include log ingestion, API connectors, an agent-less forward proxy, reverse proxy, and thin agent and profile for remote users on PCs or mobile devices. Netskope can enforce policies including data loss prevention (DLP), anti-malware, encryption, access control, and incident management services on the cloud traffic it inspects.

Notes

  1. ↑ https://www.gartner.com/doc/3488119?ref=SiteSearch&sthkw=netskope&fnl=search&srcId=1-3478922254
  2. ↑ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netskope-recognized-as-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-access-security-brokers-300565731.html
  3. ↑ http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/10/03/venture-capital-deals-413/
  4. ↑ http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10/10/fresh-out-of-stealth-gray-matter-eyeing-big-data-services/
  5. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2013/10/23/enrique-salem-takes-seat-netskope-board.html
  6. ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/netskope-brings-in-35-million-more-as-cloud-security-competition-heats-up/?ncid=rss
  7. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/netskope#section-funding-rounds
  8. ↑ https://www.vccircle.com/indian-led-cloud-security-startup-breaks-into-silicon-valleys-unicorn-club/
  9. ↑ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9398102.PN.&OS=PN/9398102&RS=PN/9398102

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