Netskope - November 2020

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DIGITAL REPORT 2020

Delivering a cyber secure cloud

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David Fairman, CSO APAC for Netskope, discusses the company’s powerful, cloudnative cybersecurity solutions

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he global cybersecurity industry is undergoing a radical transformation. As enterprise network architectures move

steadily away from centralised infrastructure-based solutions and towards the cloud, cybersecurity teams are being presented with a completely differ04

ent landscape. A significant number of legacy firms are struggling to achieve the same level of cyber defence in these cloud-native environments.

“Traditionally, cybersecurity was very on-premises and control based. You’d pivot and run your users, transactions and data through your network to be inspected and controlled through your stack. In a cloud-based environment, that on-prem approach doesn’t work anymore,” explains David Fairman, Chief Security Officer (CSO) APAC at Netskope.

Founded in 2012, Netskope has spent the past decade becoming a trailblazing innovator and industry leader in the cloud security space. “We’re a cloud-native data protection and data security platform. Period,” says Fairman. “We’re the only pure play, cloud native secure access service edge (SASE - pronounced “sassy”) platform in the

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“We’re the only pure play, cloud-native SASE platform in the industry” — David Fairman, CISO, Netskope

industry. SASE is a services-oriented approach that allows full data protection, next-gen secure web gateway, zero-trust, cloud security policy management and CASB, ‘all-in-one’ platform, through one single pane of glass with one policy engine.”

Fairman joined Netskope as CSO APAC in June 2020, after more than a decade overseeing the cybersecurity functions of some of the world’s biggest banks. Now, he explains, he’s looking to broaden his horizons and

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work to continually build a product he believes in, made by a “vendor that’s solving real problems and making security operations teams’ jobs easier.”

We spoke with Fairman to find out more about Netskope’s unique, powerful and cloud-native cybersecurity offerings, and how the company’s Cloud XD technology helps customers eliminate blindspots, achieve deep visibility and granular control over their data.

THE JOURNEY TO CLOUD Over the past decade, the importance of data collection, management and security has become paramount to the success of the modern enterprise.

As more and more enterprises turn

distributed edge networks, with legacy

to the public and hybrid cloud as the

players left unsure where the enter-

place to store their data, the nature

prise ends and the network begins.

of a cybersecurity function has

“When an organisation is progress-

shifted dramatically.

ing on its digital transformation

The traditional approach to cyber-

journey, what’s happening now is that

security, involving on-premises IT

traditional security teams are start-

devices and a strong firewall with sim-

ing to come up against blind spots,

ple “block vs allow” permissions, has

because they’re not necessarily

been replaced by sprawling cloud and

seeing the complete picture of cloud

E X E C U T I V E P R O FILE :

David Fairman

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Title: CSO APAC

Company: Netskope

Industry: Cybersecurity

Location: Melbourne, Australia

David Fairman is a highly-experienced professional and academic in the security and financial crime disciplines, working and consulting for several large financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies across APAC, North America, the UK, and EU. He most recently served in CSO roles for both the National Australia Bank and Royal Bank of Canada. He previously held leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Royal Bank of Scotland, and also served as an adjunct professor at New York University, University of Toronto, and Deakin University. Fairman is a passionate leader and actively involved in founding industry alliances and expert groups such as the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange, and holds several board advisory roles including Digital Shadows, ClearSky, and Glilot Capital Partners.

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native traffic,” Fairman explains. He

cybersecurity architectures holds a

adds that the modern security team

great deal of promise for making com-

has to focus on removing those blind

panies not only more secure, but more

spots in order to find a way to embrace

flexible and transparent. “The ways

the cloud without compromising secu-

we used to control activity, users and

rity. “That’s one of the benefits that

data don’t necessarily apply now,” he

Netskope brings to the table. We’re

says. “The traditional ways of thinking

able to remove those blind spots and

about cybersecurity architecture in

give full visibility into the cloud.”

the industry need to transform.”

Fairman continues, adding that the security practitioners don’t neces-

CLOUD XD: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF SASE

sarily apply in the world of cloud, but

The SASE approach to cybersecurity

that the move away from traditional

combines intelligent data analysis

methods of thinking used by traditional

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powerful security solution over the

powerful, micro-segmented, granular

past decade, with hyper-specific

permission control. “I like to think of

instance awareness at its heart, all

us as the inspection and the policy

driven by Cloud XD.

enforcement point between the iden-

“Cloud XD is the engine of the

tity - whether that’s a machine or a user

Netskope platform,” enthuses Fairman.

- and the data,” Fairman explains. “That

“It’s what enables instance aware-

inspection point allows us to apply fine

ness, which is our key differentiator.”

grain control and access between a

Instance awareness empowers

company’s most vital asset - its data

Netskope users with an unrivalled level

- and places where it’s used, manipu-

of granular visibility into their network’s

lated and transferred.”

users, devices, applications and activity

Netskope’s position as a cloudnative company has led to the development of a truly modern, highly

- both in the cloud and on the web.

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“The traditional ways of thinking about cybersecurity architecture in the industry need to transform” — David Fairman, CISO, Netskope

can differentiate between them, as well as drill in and identify the commands that I’m making in those different instances. Netskope could then enable me to have full privileges on my corporate instance of the app, but only be able to read on my personal instance.”

The result, he explains, is that “the days of ‘Block or Allow’ are over”.

With Netskope able to decode APIs

cloud-based application. Let’s say I’m

and JSON, it can give its users a much

going from my corporate account to my

finer, more granular level of control

corporate instance of an app,” poses

over their network edge. Fairman

Fairman. “If I try to then access my per-

adds that, “the policy enforcement

sonal instance of that app, Netskope

we can do is really powerful.”

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Verizon is a key strategic partner for us, not just in APAC but globally,” comments Fairman.

“Through this partnership, we’ve been able to advance our customers’ goals together. At the moment those goals are usually centred around digital transformation and managing digital risk in their organisations.

Through our partnership with Verizon, we’re able to help them achieve those goals effectively and efficiently.

sacrificing connection speeds and other performance elements is critical.

Netskope’s NewEdge was released in July of 2019 and has been rolled out across multiple markets over the last year, receiving recognition in September 2020 as one of the most interconnected networks in the world.

“Businesses today are increasingly supporting a distributed workforce, but struggle to find the cloud and web security tools to support employees anywhere, on any device, at any time,” said Netskope founder and CEO Sanjay Beri at the launch event.

“When companies deploy security appliances in a few select locations, or work with a security vendor with legacy-technology-based points of presence, they settle for a less-thandesirable, latency-prone experience for remote offices and remote

INTRODUCING NEWEDGE

employees. Netskope NewEdge pro-

At a time when the industry-wide

vides all users, regardless of location

journey to cloud is being accelerated

or connectivity, with an unparalleled,

by the COVID-19 pandemic’s crea-

global network infrastructure that

tion of an increasingly remote global

enables the right balance of control

workforce, the ability to deliver com-

and speed to meet the demands of

prehensive cybersecurity solutions

today’s modern enterprises, without

across modern architectures without

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T H E G L O B A L R EMO T E WO RK EXPERI M EN T

Since March, countries around the world have been forced into varying degrees of lockdown and social distancing measures in order to combat the ongoing spread of COVID19. Enterprises have responded by entering into what amounts to the largest social and economic experiment with remote work in history.

A number of companies have seen productivity increase, employees have felt their worklife balance shift to a better place, and many organisations have changed their previous stance on working from home permanently. The world that COVID-19 leaves behind will be one of more distributed workforces and increasingly digitalised operations.

However, this has presented a problem for many enterprise security teams. They have found the number of endpoints with access to their system doubling, as more people use

personal devices for workrelated activities; employees logging on using unsecured networks and devices; increased network load; all present an increasingly difficult challenge for enterprise security teams.

This is where Netskope comes in. “The crisis has been a great opportunity for Netskope to help our customers make a very rapid transition toward remote work. Obviously we’re helping them better understand and protect their data, but our platform also brings zero-trust capabilities to the table, which has been a technology that has really increased in prominence over the past six months. We’ve been a player in that space for quite some time and can provide very flexible and adaptable zero-trust capabilities to our customers. It’s been great to be able to help them respond to their needs in such a short space of time,” says Fairman.

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Delivering global access from anywhere, extensive peering solutions and a host of other features, NewEdge is unlocking the power of SASE solutions for Netskope and its customers.

“It makes Netskope the most wellconnected cloud security offering on the market right now, and gives our customers massive performance and scalability,” says Fairman.

THE FUTURE FOR NETSKOPE Fairman notes that his arrival, along with 14

the recent completion of the NewEdge launch, has put Netskope in a position

“We are the epitome of SASE. As we continue into 2021, you’ll see our SASE journey continue to evolve as we work to become the dominant SASE player in the market” — David Fairman, CISO, Netskope

to explore new directions and possibilities for their offerings. “We’re shifting our focus towards rounding out our data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities, as well as exploring new capabilities outside of web and cloud,” says Fairman.

The company is also looking to further embrace artificial intelligence and machine learning, which Fairman sees as critical to the future of an industry in the grip of a historic skills shortage.

“Every security function and every security team needs to be focusing on two key metrics: time-to-detect and

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time-to-contain. The more that you need

greater automation, which is where we’ll

to throw a person at those problems, the

see AI and ML come to fruition and start

longer the process takes. Using AI and

to create compounded benefits.”

ML to tackle those problems at machine-

As Netskope moves towards 2021,

speed, will help organisations reduce

the company is still doggedly pursuing

those times dramatically,” he explains.

its principal goal: to set the standard for

“The more we can automate that

the SASE cloud-based cybersecurity

detection process, the more we can

industry. “We are the epitome of SASE.

redirect human resources towards the

As we continue into 2021, you’ll see our

modelling of AI and ML, teaching those

SASE journey continue to evolve as we

models to work better and faster. There’s

work to become the dominant SASE

a skills shortage in cybersecurity, so the

player in the market.” says Fairman.

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