AI product readEnterprise security proxy enforcement - routes Chrome browser traffic through the Netskope Cloud Explicit Proxy for security inspection and policy enforcement
Enables enterprise IT teams to steer and secure Chrome browser traffic (especially on Chromebooks) through Netskope's cloud security platform, providing web filtering, data loss prevention, and threat protection without requiring a traditional VPN or endpoint agent
1) Admin deploys extension via enterprise policy with tenant configuration in managed storage. 2) Extension reads tenant/config from MDM or user-entered value. 3) Proxy settings are configured to route traffic through eproxy-{tenant}:8081 or PAC script. 4) User authenticates via Netskope auth service (authservice.goskope.com); nspatoken cookie is captured and stored. 5) X-NS-PATOKEN header is injected on all subsequent HTTP requests via declarativeNetRequest. 6) Extension long-polls Netskope notification service for security alerts and displays user notifications when policy actions occur (e.g., blocked downloads).
Enforce browser traffic through Netskope Cloud Explicit Proxy via fixed server, PAC URL, or PAC dataInject X-NS-PATOKEN authentication header on all proxied requests for user identificationAdmin-managed tenant and steering configuration via Chrome managed storage (MDM policies)User notification system via long-polling from Netskope notification serviceAuto-complete authentication on Netskope auth service pagesConfigurable bypass list for selective proxy routing
- Target users
- Enterprise IT administrators managing Netskope deployments / End users in organizations using Netskope cloud security (primarily Chromebook users)
- Cannot verify the actual authentication UI on authservice.goskope.com since it's an external service - cannot confirm whether it uses SSO, username/password, or both
- The Netskope platform itself requires an enterprise subscription, but extension-level gating is not present in source code
MonetizationNo paid features detected
The extension itself has no payment gates, premium features, subscription logic, or billing APIs. All keyword hits for 'pro' are false positives from 'proxy', 'process', 'private', 'promise', 'protected'. 'Subscribe' hits are event listener subscriptions (storage changes, scheduled alerts) in notification/longpull.js lines 34-35, 83, 97, 172-173. However, Netskope is a commercial enterprise security platform - organizations must have a Netskope subscription to use this extension. The extension requires a valid tenant configured by enterprise admins.
- Confidence
- 90
- Payment platform
- --
- Source
- AI / High
- Login required
- Yes
- Reason
- The extension facilitates authentication to the Netskope Cloud Explicit Proxy service. An 'nspatoken' is obtained from cookies at goskope.com (proxy.js lines 230-234), stored locally, and injected as an 'X-NS-PATOKEN' header on all web requests (proxy.js lines 239-284). Content scripts on authservice.goskope.com/nsauth/authenticate* (manifest.json lines 27-30) auto-complete the authentication flow. The extension also manages nsauth_check and nsauth_session cookies (proxy/constant.js line 3). This is destination_service authentication to Netskope's cloud security platform, not an extension-specific account.