Netskope and Zoom work together to improve security posture and stay compliant

Netskope connects Netskope’s borderless SD-WAN and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) with Zoom UCaaS to provide a connectivity and security solution for effective user collaboration with new integration with Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) announced.

These Netskope integrations enable organizations using Zoom to enhance their user experience while complying with privacy and security regulations.

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) users often suffer from poor reliability, high latency, and network interruptions, all of which limit employee productivity. increase. Additionally, organizations face security challenges such as risks from users and sites communicating directly over the Internet, compliance with important privacy regulations, and the complexity and inefficiencies present in many branch and remote access solutions. I’m here.

To solve these challenges, Netskope Borderless SD-WAN automatically identifies and prioritizes Zoom connections and improves network performance with on-demand remediation for reliable and optimized network performance. Allows access to Zoom.

Netskope also simplifies remote maintenance of Zoom Phones behind the Netskope SASE Gateway with a built-in secure inbound access service. In addition, Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) continuously monitors your Zoom environment to detect and remediate misconfigurations that can weaken security, helping you stay compliant with industry standards and regulations. Helpful.

“As the world’s leading UCaaS provider, Zoom continues to prioritize security combined with a seamless user experience to ensure our customers have the productivity they need, wherever and whenever work happens,” said Zoom. CTO Brendan Ittelson said.

“Zoom works with Netskope’s fully integrated, context-aware SD-WAN and SSPM to provide the best connectivity, performance and security,” added Ittelson.

Optimizing your Zoom connection

Netskope Borderless SD-WAN ensures reliable and optimized access to Zoom, providing consistent high-performance access for users working from home, branch offices, or out-of-office locations such as coffee shops .

Borderless SD-WAN, part of the Netskope platform, takes a unique approach to delivering performance while simplifying overall operations.

Netskope Borderless SD-WAN:

• Provides full visibility and ML-driven insights with application and real-time path monitoring
• Includes Netskope Quality of Experience (QoE) smart defaults for over 60,000 applications to automatically identify and prioritize Zoom sub-applications
• Improve network performance with on-demand repair, sub-second failover, and cloud onramp to Zoom
• Simplify remote maintenance of Zoom Phones behind Netskope SASE Gateway with embedded secure inbound access service
• Provides unified policies that provide a consistent experience for remote, branch, and multi-cloud users.

Maximize Zoom performance with consistent QoE

Netskope Borderless SD-WAN can easily identify Zoom Meeting, Zoom Phone, and Zoom Room Connectors among the tens of thousands of different workloads that regularly leave your organization’s network.

Netskope automatically prioritizes traffic and provides smart defaults that minimize latency, jitter, and loss to deliver a consistent quality experience. Netskope Borderless SD-WAN ensures application performance even over a single unstable broadband internet connection without compromising payload security.

Strengthen your security posture and maintain compliance

Tight integration with the Zoom API allows Netskope SSPM to provide visibility and insight into configuration settings, compliance status, and security posture. Netskope SSPM supports an extensive collection of out-of-the-box rules and compliance standards, as well as the ability to add custom rules based on the data Netskope collects about your connected Zoom accounts.

Compliance admins can modify and deploy policies to detect violations based on common benchmarks and standards such as CIS, HIPAA, PCI, CSA, GDPR, AIPCA, and ISO. Security alerts include actionable remediation steps to quickly bring your Zoom deployment back into compliance and close any remaining security gaps.

said Timothy Johnson, Assistant VP of ITS Operations, AT Still University.

“Maintaining security, maximizing the user experience, and using the advanced remediation capabilities of Netskope’s borderless SD-WAN solution to overcome disruptions caused by latency, jitter, and loss between users and apps over flaky links. A feature that minimizes is this compelling integration between Netskope and Zoom that we deliver expertly,” continued Johnson.

“Together, Netskope and Zoom will give organizations the ability to deliver the collaborative experience their users expect while doing so in a secure manner that does not disrupt business and helps maintain compliance with industry standards and regulations. Borderless SD-WAN, Netskope.

“We are proud to work with Zoom and look forward to continuing to expand the ways we integrate our solutions together,” Thakore concluded.