Netskope Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Secure Access Service Edge Platforms for 3rd Year in a Row
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Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK) announced that Gartner named the company a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platforms, marking the third consecutive year of this recognition, with Netskope positioned highest for Ability to Execute.
According to Netskope, the companion Critical Capabilities report ranks the company as the highest scoring vendor in three SASE use cases: Foundational (4.24/5), Zero Trust (4.43/5), and Sovereign (4.16/5). Netskope highlights its unified SASE platform, Netskope One, and its NewEdge private cloud infrastructure, which apply zero trust and AI to security, networking, analytics, and agentic workflows.
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Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | 24h Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21 | AI performance update | Positive | -1.4% | AI Fast Path reduced latency to popular AI destinations by up to 90%. |
| Jun 17 | AI integration announcement | Positive | -2.6% | Netskope announced an upcoming AI Guardrails integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. |
| Jun 17 | Partner program launch | Positive | -2.6% | Netskope launched Catalyst MSP/SP and Partner Orchestrator programs. |
| Jun 03 | Earnings report | Positive | -19.1% | Fiscal Q1 results showed 29% ARR growth and 28% revenue growth. |
| Jun 02 | AI partnership announcement | Positive | +2.6% | Netskope joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing to detect code vulnerabilities. |
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Netskope's prior positive announcements more often diverged from favorable news sentiment than aligned with it.
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Positioned for its Vision and Execution, Netskope is recognized as a Leader and positioned highest in Ability to Execute
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized the company for the third consecutive year as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platforms. Netskope is positioned highest in Ability to Execute in the new report.
In the companion SASE Platforms Critical Capabilities report, a comparative research report that scores competing technology products or services against a specific set of critical differentiators, Netskope is the only vendor ranked as the highest scoring for three Use Cases, including: Foundational SASE Platform Use Case (4.24/5), Zero Trust SASE Platform Use Case (4.43/5), and the new Sovereign SASE Use Case (4.16/5).
Netskope helps organizations modernize by converging critical security, network, analytics, and AI products into a powerful, unified platform, Netskope One. The architecture of Netskope One applies zero trust principles and AI innovations to optimize access, protect data wherever it moves, stop threats, and enable secure, work-from-anywhere connectivity. Netskope One is powered by NewEdge, the private cloud infrastructure that underpins Netskope’s delivery of security, networking, analytics, and AI services with fast inference and proven low latency for AI use and agentic workflows, preventing traditional trade-offs between security and performance.
“We believe being named a Leader again in SASE Platforms, and positioned highest in Ability to Execute, reflects the trust customers place in Netskope to modernize their security and networking for today’s AI-first business requirements,” said Sanjay Beri, CEO and co-founder, Netskope. “We built Netskope One so customers never have to choose between AI-ready security and network performance. Along with our continued innovation in data protection, data sovereignty controls, and extending SASE functionality with agentic operations to automate SASE workflows, we feel this recognition underscores how we’re successfully delivering on that vision at scale.”
In our view, Netskope’s recognition in leading SASE, SSE, and AI capabilities all align to Gartner forecast1, and strategic planning assumptions2 for the SASE market, which include:
- By 2028,
50% of new SASE deployments will be based on a single-vendor SASE platform offering (up from30% in 2025), and70% of SD-WAN purchases will be part of these single-vendor offerings. - By 2028, vendors lacking a feature-rich SASE platform with strong AI controls and key integrations (such as data security posture management [DSPM] and secure enterprise browser [SEB]) will need to partner with others to stay competitive.
- By 2027,
30% of organizations will require comprehensive sovereignty of their cloud security controls to address continued geopolitical turmoil.
For more on today’s announcement, download a complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms from Netskope.
Gartner Disclaimer
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, John Watts, 28 July 2026.
Gartner, Critical Capabilities for SASE Platforms, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, Thomas Lintemuth, John Watts, 29 July 2026.
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About Netskope
Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, addresses the needs of both security and networking teams by providing optimized access and real-time, context-based security for the AI ecosystem inclusive of agents, applications, tools, LLMs, people, devices, and data. Thousands of customers, including more than
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Forward-Looking Statements
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1 Gartner, Forecast Analysis: Secure Access Service Edge, Worldwide, 2025-2030, Charanpal Bhogal, Neil MacDonald, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Charlie Winckless, 15 May 2026.
2 Gartner, The SASE Geopatriation Pivot: Addressing the Sovereign-First Era, Charanpal Bhogal, Charlie Winckless, Theo de Feligonde, 11 June 2026.
