Northbridge Managed SSE, underpinned by Netskope

Your customers' data is walking into AI tools they can't see.
You're going to change that.

Shadow AI is the fastest-growing data risk inside Australian businesses. Northbridge Managed SSE gives your customers visibility and control over every AI app their people use, without blocking the tools that make them productive. Fully managed by Northbridge. Sold and led by you.

94%
of organisations lack visibility into AI use
68%
are still maturing AI governance and security policies
9%
have inline prevention for AI and agentic actions

Every one of those gaps exists inside your customer base right now.

Source: Netskope AI Risk and Readiness Report
The escalation

First it was shadow IT. Then shadow AI. Now it's shadow agents.

Blocking doesn't work; people route around it. The answer is visibility, policy, and coaching users toward safe AI, not a wall.

Shadow IT Employees adopted cloud apps faster than IT could approve them.
Shadow AI Then they started pasting customer data, source code, and financials into AI tools nobody sanctioned.
Shadow agents Now autonomous agents are acting on company data without waiting for approval at all.

Your people will use AI. The question is whether you can see it.

What the service covers

The full SSE stack. One managed service.

Security Service Edge is a shift in how modern organisations protect users, data, and applications. Northbridge Managed SSE delivers the whole platform as a service, running on Netskope's NewEdge network: globally distributed, low latency, no performance trade-offs.

GenAI app control

Discover every AI app in use, apply policy per app and per action, and coach users toward sanctioned tools in real time.

Zero Trust Network Access

Access decisions based on identity, device health, location, and application risk. The modern replacement for legacy VPNs.

Secure Web Gateway

Inline protection for all web traffic, with machine learning threat detection and sandboxing.

Cloud Access Security Broker

Visibility and control across sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS.

Data Loss Prevention

Inline and API-based DLP covering data in motion and at rest, including what's headed into AI prompts.

Cloud Firewall

Write-once, enforce-everywhere policies across web, SaaS, private apps, and cloud infrastructure.

Fully managed means fully managed

Northbridge runs it. You own the relationship.

This isn't a licence resale. Northbridge's engineers handle the architecture, deployment, policy design, tuning, updates, monitoring, and incident response.

Policy tuning across SWG, CASB, ZTNA, and GenAI controls
Proactive incident triage and response
Continuous security posture monitoring
Deep analytics and audit-ready reporting
Ongoing performance and configuration optimisation
The partner opportunity

The security conversation every customer wants to have

Every business is wrestling with AI right now: boards asking about risk, staff already using the tools, nobody with visibility. That makes shadow AI the easiest security conversation an MSP has ever opened. Northbridge Managed SSE turns it into a recurring revenue line: no platform investment, no specialist hires, no operational burden. You walk in with the answer to the question they're already asking.

See it.

Every AI app your customers' people are already using, surfaced in weeks.

Control it.

Policy that stops sensitive data leaking into AI tools without blocking productivity.

Sell it.

A packaged, fully managed service with Northbridge's name and track record behind it.