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Netskope Private Access pros and cons

Vendor: Netskope
4.3 out of 5

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PROS

Netskope Private Access provides secure remote access without the need for traditional VPN technology, reducing setup time and latency.
It offers advanced security features such as Data Loss Protection and content filtering to ensure user safety while accessing applications.
Users can benefit from scalable access to private applications with the ability to granularly assign application access to end-users.
The platform supports creation of user-based policies, allowing organizations to manage access according to specific team or user requirements.
Netskope Private Access enables secure application access from various locations, ensuring access is controlled and verified.

CONS

Netskope Private Access lacks SD-WAN integration, which is a desired feature.
There is a limitation in supporting only one DNS server, causing issues with secondary on-premises DNS.
Challenges exist with Trust Network Access technologies, including limitations on supporting broadcast applications.
Netskope Private Access requires improvements in data protection strategy and security for agentless access.
Performance and application visibility need enhancement, as well as DLP and inspection engines integration.
 

Netskope Private Access Pros review quotes

NM
Founder and Ceo at MIS3 inc.
Feb 7, 2021
With private access or next-gen VPN, they are able to keep you secure, but they are invisible in terms of how they do it. Anybody working from home and trying to bring up VPN quickly can pretty much get VPN up and running in a matter of minutes because this doesn't require any VPN technology on-prem. All the VPN technologies that you're using to access applications on-premise can be eliminated by using their software. If you're accessing Microsoft 365 or salesforce.com, you can go straight out from your home office or home internet to that application rather than having to come through a VPN. It still has all the policies enforced, and it mitigates any business risks in terms of how that user is accessing that application and what they're doing inside of it. VPN piece is really critical, especially at this time of Covid, and your latency also goes down. Your latency gets better by using the platform because they're intercepting your traffic, routing it through their local data center, and then sending it to whichever SaaS service or whatever you're going to. It does it better, faster, and quicker with all your governance policies enforced, rather than you having to go through your data center. So, all the traffic gets hauls there, and then that traffic has got to route somewhere else, and then it has got to go up to the cloud. Your latency actually goes down. They can guarantee 15 milliseconds or less pretty much across anywhere on the planet for about 95% or 90% of it.
JC
Sales Manager at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
Mar 9, 2023
The most valuable feature is being able to see who is accessing the application, whether it is a managed device or a bring-your-own-device published by Netskope.
Akshay-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Presales Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jun 29, 2023
The initial setup of Netskope Private Access is pretty simple and straightforward.
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Kalpesh Panchal - PeerSpot reviewer
TOC Architect at Infopercept Consulting Limited
Aug 25, 2023
It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution.
Christian Dagal - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect Manager at Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc.
Sep 19, 2023
There are several valuable features, like advanced security protections, especially the DLP (Data Loss Protection), and there's also browser and web filtering, or content filtering for our users to protect them when accessing certain links or websites, ensuring their security and permission.
MohammedZia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2023
Netskope enables users to securely access private applications remotely without a VPN.
reviewer2280030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Sep 20, 2023
It is a stable solution.
Karthick Selvam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Saama
Sep 21, 2023
We can block and alert the ports and allow the public traffic software in our environment.
Brett Baxter - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 26, 2023
The base features have been fantastic. The ability to be able to granularly assign application access to end-users has been really good.
SanjeevKumar19 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at AlgoSec
Sep 27, 2023
In the firewall, we don't have a user-based policies list, and we can't create them. Netskope helps us to create user-based policies. For example, if there are specific teams like HR or more than nine teams, and we want logs from access over particular URLs, and we don't want to allow that specific URL for certain users, we can create these policies in Netskope. It's handy, easy to use for new users, and has a cool GUI interface. We can create multiple policies, and as for the proxy, it's a leading solution.
 

Netskope Private Access Cons review quotes

NM
Founder and Ceo at MIS3 inc.
Feb 7, 2021
I would like to see them go down the path of including SD-WAN. Currently, they don't do SD-WAN. If they could somehow natively do that inside of the platform, that would be amazing. I don't know if they're going to do it, but it would be amazing if they do.
JC
Sales Manager at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
Mar 9, 2023
The cost has room for improvement.
Akshay-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Presales Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jun 29, 2023
Netskope Private Access allows mapping only one DNS server. If a user uses a secondary DNS on-premises, Netskope fails to disconnect them. This is an issue that needs to be addressed.
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Kalpesh Panchal - PeerSpot reviewer
TOC Architect at Infopercept Consulting Limited
Aug 25, 2023
The product is not easy to use.
Christian Dagal - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect Manager at Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc.
Sep 19, 2023
Netskope detects certain data or contents, but there are some limitations on how we can customize those policies for DLP.
MohammedZia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2023
There could be an ability to access one server from another when we have console access to the first server.
reviewer2280030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, Cyber Security at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Sep 20, 2023
The main challenge we are facing across various Trust Network Access (TNA) technologies, including Netskope, is their inability to support broadcast applications or those relying on broadcasting protocols.
Karthick Selvam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Saama
Sep 21, 2023
The major problem that we are facing is if we deploy Netskope on the server level or if we get a new server in the EMEA factor, it will affect all the machines. Recently, this has caused us to fail some reviews.
Brett Baxter - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 26, 2023
The ability to provide more security around agentless access has room for improvement.
SanjeevKumar19 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at AlgoSec
Sep 27, 2023
I would rate the stability around seven out of ten. Sometimes, we face some difficulty, but it depends upon the complexity of the environment.