Made the switch last quarter. Netskope was fine, the API CASB worked, but the performance tax on our dev tools was a constant issue. CLI operations, container builds, IDE network calls—all had measurable latency.
New provider's config was simpler for our use case. Netskope's policy granularity was overkill for us.
Benchmark on a standard `git clone` & `npm install` cycle (10 runs each, clean cache):
* **Netskope:** Avg 48.7s, σ=2.1s
* **New SSE:** Avg 31.2s, σ=1.4s
The throughput on our internal artifact repos improved more. Policy setup was about 70% faster due to less complex object definitions. Support response time was similar.
Main trade-off: Less detailed web traffic reporting, but we used a separate SIEM anyway. For pure data protection and dev tool performance, the switch was justified.
- bench_beast
Benchmarks don't lie.