Netskope emerged as one of the defining companies of the cloud security era. Founded in 2012 in Santa Clara, California by Sanjay Beri, the company provides a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that protects data and users across cloud applications, private apps, and the web. In a world where corporate data lives in hundreds of SaaS applications and employees work from everywhere, the old model of routing everything through a corporate firewall simply doesn’t work anymore. Netskope built the alternative.
The platform combines a cloud-native secure web gateway, cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access, and data loss prevention into a unified architecture. Netskope’s NewEdge network — a purpose-built global security cloud — provides low-latency inspection and policy enforcement across more than 75 regions worldwide. The company’s deep visibility into cloud application usage goes beyond simple allow/block decisions, understanding the context of user actions within thousands of cloud services.
Netskope has raised over $1 billion in funding and has been valued at approximately $7.5 billion, making it one of the most valuable private cybersecurity companies in the world. The company serves over a quarter of the Fortune 100 and processes billions of transactions daily through its cloud security platform. As enterprises continue migrating to cloud-first architectures and hybrid work models become permanent, Netskope’s approach to security — following users and data rather than protecting a perimeter — has become the industry standard rather than the exception.
