Netskope, a leader in Security Service Edge (SSE) and Zero Trust, has announced its continued global expansion of the Netskope NewEdge network with an additional data center now launched and receiving traffic in South Africa. The new Cape Town deployment complements Johannesburg’s existing infrastructure to meet growing customer demand and provide more capacity and redundancy in the region. NewEdge is now powered by data centers in 57 regions each providing full compute for security traffic processing, the full breadth of SSE services and accessible to every Netskope customer without surcharge.
As the underlying infrastructure of the Netskope Security Cloud, NewEdge delivers real-time inline and out-of-band API-driven services covering Cloud Firewall (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Cloud and SaaS Security Posture Management (CSPM/SSPM) and more. In addition to accelerating the adoption of a Zero Trust approach, NewEdge’s performance-oriented architecture ensures that there are no performance trade-offs when security is implemented. This approach reduces the risk of users working around security controls, negatively impacting productivity, or slowing or impeding business processes.
Putting data-centric security as close to the user as possible is a key requirement of a SASE-ready architecture and the delivery of world-class Security Service Edge (SSE) capabilities. NewEdge’s expanding global scope also addresses unique enterprise business requirements and compliance goals, such as having a regional data center for content localization, or to ensure customer traffic remains within intent-based zones. In addition, each NewEdge data center is widely viewed across the most commonly used web/CDN, cloud and SaaS providers to deliver fast, optimized access to the content, apps and data enterprises value most. For example, each NewEdge data center is directly connected to Microsoft and Google, with other peering relationships in key regions including Amazon, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Box and Dropbox, among many others.
“It is important for us that data processing occurs within our home jurisdiction, which provides tangible improvements to the user experience,” said Funzani Madi, Executive: Information Security (CISO) for Netskope customer, Telkom South Africa. “The new Cape Town NewEdge facility further demonstrates Netskope’s commitment to the African continent.”
“As a Cape Town-based organization, having a local cloud infrastructure for our security makes a material difference to our users’ experience,” said Danie Burger, Information Security Specialist at impact.com, a leading Netskope’s partnership and customer management platform. “With offices and clients around the world, it’s imperative that we don’t create very long data flows for security. With infrastructure located in Cape Town and peered connections to all of our key cloud services, we can introduce in-line security controls, speeding up access to cloud services.”
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