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and , at the end of the day , they provide some of the fulcrum pieces of our security technology stack . They ' re the ones who are helping us identify threats , defend our account access , ensure that we are , you know , managing and governing various access to all of these new incredible products .”
One of its crucial partners , Netskope , was brought on board to help govern access to software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) products used by the company . The team works closely with Netskope to reduce the threat landscape surrounding edge applications .
“ We ’ ve done a lot of work with Netskope to govern access to SaaS products ; being able to ultimately undergo decryption at scale to gain proper visibility of what ’ s egressing our environment ; understanding what threats are out there , because now we have the visibility to see them and analyse them ,” Melo says . “ One of our biggest challenges was creating a virtual remote access environment for our staff , especially during COVID-19 . There was a massive demand for remote access to most organisations and traditional VPN models just weren ’ t able to keep up . They weren ’ t built with the bandwidth requirements and capacity in mind .”
Netskope is a critical partner for enabling LifeLabs ’ zero-trust approach and provides the company with low-latency and secure connected services , which is aligned with the overall goal of stable data sharing .
“ Stability is critical for our success as we are a hybrid organisation and we ’ re able to have security policies that essentially follow the user and not the traditional means of following a corporate asset ,” Melo explains .
“ I think that our journey with Netskope has been one of our greatest successes and our ability to adapt and evolve over the past four years , our cloud journey and also our hybrid remote work journey .”
The future of the company is secure and over the foreseeable months cloud and cybersecurity will be the main focus points for the business . Melo and his team are also embracing the impending integration of AI in its processes and leveraging tools like ChatGPT in more mainstream applications . cybermagazine . com 95