- 58% of o ga izatio s u 11 o mo e data secu ity tools a d o ly 7% desc ibe thei stack as fully u ified.
- Whe a i cide t happe s, 68% of secu ity teams take days o lo ge to eco st uct whe e se sitive data we t, a d 8% ca a ely eco st uct it at all.
- Just 8% e fo ce data secu ity co siste tly i AI e vi o me ts so o ly 7% a e co fide t that se sitive data is ot flowi g u co t olled i to AI.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leade i mode secu ity a d etwo ki g fo the cloud a d AI e a, today a ou ced Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te , a u ified co t ol pla e that discove s, u de sta ds, t acks, a d p otects se sitive data whe eve it lives a d moves ac oss AI e vi o me ts, cloud, the etwo k, o -p emises, e dpoi t, email, a d mo e. Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te gives secu ity teams full visibility i to thei se sitive data a d a seamless path f om discove y to emediatio ac oss thei e ti e data la dscape.
O ga izatio s face a wide i g data secu ity gap d ive by f agme ted tooli g, apid AI adoptio , a d ma ual i vestigatio wo kflows. Acco di g to the 2026 Netskope Data Secu ity Repo t, mo e tha half of o ga izatio s ope ate 11 o mo e sepa ate tools fo data secu ity alo e, a d less tha 10% desc ibe thei stack as fully u ified.¹ The ope atio al cost is sig ifica t: o ly 4% of o ga izatio s ca eco st uct a se sitive data path i mi utes, with 68% equi i g days o lo ge .¹ Rapid AI adoptio has accele ated this p oblem: 98% of o ga izatio s ow use AI, yet o ly 8% e fo ce data p otectio policies co siste tly i AI e vi o me ts.¹
Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te is the co e of Netskope’s u ified data secu ity st ategy: the ce t al co t ol pla e that o chest ates p otectio ac oss all Netskope data secu ity e fo ceme t poi ts. By i gesti g sig als f om ac oss Netskope se vices, it co elates elatio ships betwee use s, devices, data sto es, a d AI assets, su faci g hidde isks a d accele ati g emediati g them by facilitati g di ect actio s, e abli g t iage o i vestigative wo kflows, a d ecomme di g policies that a e e fo ced back at Netskope’s data secu ity co t ol poi ts. Its be efits suppo t:
Data s ecu ity p ostu e a d isk d iscove y: A always-o discove y dashboa d a d isk p io itizatio e gi e co elates, o malizes, a d a alyzes sig als f om DLP, DSPM, SWG, CASB a d mo e, to su face exposu es a d othe isks ac oss SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, o -p emises, i li e, a d e dpoi t e vi o me ts, with i teg ated wo kflows that move secu ity teams f om fi di g to fixi g.Data l i eage: I teg atio with Netskope O e Data Li eage p ovides a u ified i te face to t ack data moveme t ac oss co ected systems, f om the mome t a file is c eated a d whe eve it t avels.I tellige t a daptive s ecu ity: T a slates isk sig als i to ecomme ded policy adjustme ts a d emediatio actio s, closi g the loop f om i sight to e fo ceme t without ma ual i te ve tio .Age tic ope atio s : Ope ates i ta dem with the Netskope DLP AISecOps Age t to detect, t iage, p io itize, i vestigate, a d esolve data secu ity i cide ts at machi e speed. With 56% of o ga izatio s cu e tly o ly i vestigati g half o fewe of the ale ts they ge e ate due to a lack of capacity1, DataSec Comma d Ce te a d the age t b idge the gap at scale.
Sa jay Be i, Co-Fou de a d CEO, Netskope comme ted, “O ga izatio s have i vested i mo e data secu ity tools tha eve , yet most teams still ca ot a swe basic questio s such as whe e did the data go a d what is its cu e t state? The p oblem is ‘t a lack of tools — it’s the massive volume of data, the sig als it ge e ates, a d the lack of coo di atio betwee them. Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te digests all of that data a d those sig als, co elates a d o malizes them, a alyzes them, a d su faces huma -u de sta dable i sights givi g secu ity teams the co t ol pla e they have bee missi g: a si gle place to see what is exposed, u de sta d how it got the e, a d act o it to p eve t a d mitigate isks.”
Way e C oss, Di ecto , IT Cybe Secu ity a d I f ast uctu e Ope atio s, Bo de Lad e Ge vais LLP (BLG) comme ted, “The biggest ope atio al hu dle we face i data secu ity is ‘t just the volume of data, it’s the f agme tatio of ou secu ity stack. T yi g to stitch togethe dispa ate sig als ac oss cloud, SaaS, a d AI e vi o me ts c eates massive visibility gaps a d slows dow espo se times. That’s why we have a p io ity st ategy to u ify ou data secu ity. It is about b eaki g dow silos, gai i g a clea li e of sight i to ou data, a d fi ally getti g ahead of the isks that actually matte .”
As the u ified data secu ity co t ol pla e, Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te cove s a y ki d of data, a ywhe e it lives, i a y state it’s i , i cludi g:
- Real-time etwo k data goi g to the i te et, t a sacted th ough email, o i -motio o e dpoi ts
- Cloud se vice p ovide databases o object sto es i AWS, GCP, a d Azu e
- SaaS e vi o me ts like Mic osoft O eD ive, Sha ePoi t, Google D ive
- AI se vices such as ChatGPT a d A th opic Claude
- St uctu ed data i PaaS like Datab icks, S owflake, a d othe vecto database se vices
Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te will be ge e ally available this qua te as pa t of the Netskope O e platfo m. Netskope will also be demo st ati g Netskope O e DataSec Comma d Ce te a d AI, secu ity, a d etwo ki g i ovatio s du i g Black Hat USA this week i Las Vegas. Visit the Black Hat page o Netskope.com fo details.
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1U ified Data Secu ity Repo t 2026, based o a su vey of 1,064 cybe secu ity p actitio e s co ducted by Cybe secu ity I side s.
