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Data Security

The security of your data has never been more at risk than it is today in the AI era. It's time to re-imagine how you protect it from known and emerging threats. Netskope One delivers a unified approach to securing your data wherever it lives and moves.

Solution brief

Protect your data wherever it lives and moves

Distributed workforces, rapid adoption of cloud apps, and generative AI usage cause security blind spots for many organizations, pushing them to reevaluate how to protect their sensitive data. Netskope’s unified data security protects data spread across cloud apps, endpoints, and collaboration tools – far beyond the traditional security perimeter.

Unified Data Security

Netskope One Data Security, including DataSec Command Center, brings posture, DLP, data lineage and more into workflow, cutting cost and complexity.

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

Discover, classify, protect, and assess risk to sensitive data anywhere, in the cloud and on-prem.

Netskope One DSPM

Data Lineage

See the lifecycle journey and mutation of your data from its origin to its current destination.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Consistently secure sensitive data everywhere across your entire enterprise.

Netskope One DLP

DataSec Command Center

A unified control plane, simplifying data security by prioritizing risks and enabling efficient remediation across your enterprise landscape.

DataSec Command Center

The value of unified data security

Mitigate data security risks

Protect your data at rest, in motion, in use and across all key vectors

Enhanced context and analytics

Shared context across user, apps, action and data awareness for better analytics and security effectiveness

Reduce cost and complexity

Eliminate legacy tools and reduce complexity, achieving up to 50% savings through Netskope One converged platform.

Achieve compliance

Simplify adherence to data protection regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA with built-in compliance frameworks and automated policy enforcement.

Unified data security use cases

Discover and protect data everywhere

• Complete visibility and control over sensitive data in motion and at rest
• Multi-channel coverage including web, email, SaaS, endpoint, private apps, IaaS

Secure genAI usage

• Context-aware DLP that prevents sensitive data leaks ​
• Policy application that aligns with security frameworks​

Manage data security posture (DSPM)

• Discovery and classification of sensitive data
• Data access governance and usage risk analysis

Support privacy and compliance

• Automation that streamlines data management
• PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA enforcement

Reduce malicious and negligent data exposure

• Restrictions on personal app and shadow IT usage
• Prevention of oversharing and transfers in bulk or email

Respond to exfiltration risks

• Defense against C2 and other targeted attacks
• Proactive identification of malicious outsiders

Resources

Don’t Choose Between DSPM and DLP: Here’s Why You Need Both

If you’ve been treating DSPM and DLP as separate silos, it’s time to rethink. Together, they can work together to form the backbone of a comprehensive approach that not only secures your data but positions your organization to lead in today’s data-driven economy.

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FAQs

• How does Netskope One unify DSPM and DLP?
  Netskope One brings Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) into a single platform. DSPM proactively discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud and on-prem storage to fix risks before they are exploited. DLP then enforces real-time policies to prevent that data from being exfiltrated via web, email, or AI tools. Together, they create a continuous security loop that closes visibility gaps.

• What is "Netskope One Data Lineage" and why is it essential for AI?
  Launched in early 2026, Data Lineage acts as a digital breadcrumb trail. It tracks the full lifecycle of data—from its origin through every transformation and destination. This is critical for AI governance, as it allows security teams to verify the provenance of data feeding into LLMs and conduct fast forensic investigations into how sensitive information “mutated” or moved across the enterprise.

• How does the platform protect data from being used to train AI models?
  Netskope One uses AI Guardrails and Instance Awareness to monitor interactions with GenAI tools. It can automatically detect and block the upload of source code or sensitive documents to unauthorized AI “training” prompts. Furthermore, the platform identifies which SaaS applications use your data for model training, allowing you to set granular policies that prevent “RAG” (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) from accidentally exposing regulated data.

• Can Netskope One replace my legacy on-premises DLP?
  Yes. Netskope One is designed to replace fragmented legacy tools with a single, cloud-native policy framework. By moving to a unified engine, organizations typically see an 80% reduction in the risk of a severe breach and significant cost savings. It covers all channels—web, cloud, email, endpoint, and private apps—eliminating the need to manage five different DLP products for five different channels.

• How does this platform simplify global compliance (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA)?
  Netskope One provides built-in compliance templates and automated reporting for all major global regulations. Because it decodes more than 3,000 data identifiers in real-time across the NewEdge network, you get a single, auditable record of data movement. This visibility makes it easy to prove that “right to be forgotten” or “data residency” requirements are being met across both human and AI-agent interactions.