Netskope has expanded its long-running partnership with Microsoft, announcing the general availability of multiple enterprise security integrations designed to strengthen data protection, identity governance and AI security across Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. The new capabilities aim to give organisations tighter visibility and control as AI workloads scale across Microsoft 365, Copilot, Azure, and Entra environments.
Strengthening Enterprise Security for the AI Era
Modern enterprises are adopting AI-powered applications at unprecedented scale, but this growth is widening the attack surface — especially across multi-cloud, hybrid and remote environments. Netskope says its expanded collaboration with Microsoft is built to address these gaps by combining Netskope’s cloud and data security strengths with Microsoft’s identity and productivity platforms.
With these new integrations, enterprises can enforce consistent data governance, prevent leaks across AI tools, monitor shadow AI usage, and secure access paths across distributed networks.
Unified Data Protection with Netskope One + Microsoft Purview
One of the most significant updates is the general availability of Netskope One’s integration with Microsoft Purview. This provides a consolidated data protection layer that merges:
Netskope’s deep visibility and enforcement across SaaS, IaaS, and network traffic
Purview’s discovery and classification of sensitive data
This combination extends Microsoft’s data governance controls to tens of thousands of applications — including AI tools and unsanctioned cloud services — allowing consistent enforcement across endpoints, cloud apps and network flows.
Enterprises running multi-vendor DLP stacks can now centralise policy management without compromising control or visibility.
Integrated SSE Capabilities with Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access
Microsoft chose Netskope as its first official partner for an open Security Service Edge (SSE) ecosystem within Entra Global Secure Access (GSA). This integration, now generally available, embeds Netskope’s:
Cloud Data Loss Prevention
Advanced Threat Protection
SD-WAN capabilities
directly into Entra GSA’s identity-driven access model.
Netskope remains the only SASE vendor with full-stack integration across DLP, threat protection and network connectivity for Entra GSA — ensuring that users, regardless of location or device, connect securely to cloud apps and workloads.
Securing Microsoft 365 Copilot with CASB API
The rise of enterprise AI assistants like Microsoft 365 Copilot has increased concerns around unintentional data exposure. Netskope has introduced its CASB API for Copilot, offering:
Near real-time visibility into Copilot activity
Data-at-rest policy enforcement
Threat detection and misuse prevention
Monitoring for sensitive data prompts and outputs
This helps enterprises adopt Copilot safely without risking confidential data being shared, stored, or exposed through AI interactions.
A Unified Security Stack for Modern Cloud Workloads
Across all integrations, the goal is consistent: deliver a merged security fabric that simplifies governance across heterogeneous environments. Enterprises gain:
Holistic visibility across endpoints, cloud apps, and AI tools
Stronger guardrails for AI-generated and AI-accessed data
Unified threat protection across identity, network and application layers
Seamless policy enforcement across Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments
Netskope says this partnership is designed to eliminate fragmentation — a key barrier as organisations juggle multiple cloud providers, emerging AI tools and distributed workforces.
A Strategic Move as AI Adoption Accelerates
With AI reshaping enterprise workflows and data flows, demand for integrated security is rising sharply. The Netskope–Microsoft collaboration marks a critical step in helping organisations secure increasingly autonomous, AI-powered digital ecosystems.
As threat actors target AI applications, cloud collaboration tools and identity systems, the combined capabilities of Netskope One and Microsoft’s security stack aim to offer enterprises a more resilient, adaptive defence layer for the next wave of cloud and AI innovation.
