Skyhigh Security Reviews

Skyhigh Security is used as a proxy security tool, including forward proxy and reverse proxy functionalities. If any client faces an issue related to proxy settings, I use Skyhigh Proxy to troubleshoot and fix the problem.

The tool has efficiently supported global operations with a large number of users, providing a good security posture while maintaining cost efficiency.

The solution is primarily being used for data loss prevention in cloud environments and for PCI compliance. Right now, I'm implementing SecureWeb Gateway, Zero Trust, and VMware browser installations. My customers are in the financial or banking sectors, and they normally require new technologies. Skyhigh is mostly complete and it's a security host for other products.

It has improved the organization's PCI compliance with data loss prevention.

We use the solution to monitor and secure our customers' internet access.

The solution's best feature is the flexibility of use.

Skyhigh Security is used predominantly as a CWPP, where my customers have workloads in Azure or AWS, which require a workload protection solution and a post-production solution. In terms of Skyhigh Security being a CASB solution, it's for the SaaS applications of my customers, specifically for DLP protection, access control, and UEBA. The use case is based on what the customer gives me, then I would evaluate the requirements and propose a solution.

Skyhigh Security is not a bad product. It was a market leader. When McAfee acquired it, it was in the top magic quadrant. It is a good product.

I also like that McAfee has been in the endpoint security market for quite a long time and knows how things work.

What I found most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its stability.

The solution also has good KB articles that make it simple for users to do the deployment of Skyhigh Security themselves, without the need for integrators.

We use Skyhigh Security to audit people for internet behavior and for the discovery of shadow IT devices.

I personally don't have any issues with the performance or the stability of the solution. However, I am not the only person using this tool, and I can't speak for other colleagues using it.

You can connect to SaaS applications, like Workday, Office 365, or Dropbox. There are hundreds of SaaS applications. A remote user can connect to some kind of gateway or be assisted by a gateway connection from his home, and he would then connect through that gateway to a broker, a broker with basically the CASB as a broker, and the broker would then put that layer of security too.

A lot of people sell the solution, including Palo Alto. You've got Skyhigh Networks, which was the leader of CASB and then they were acquired by McAfee, and then now they've broken off into Skyhigh Security. They still have the CASB and they're still considered a market leader. 

They were very, very aggressive in the market to get a new market share or to take over market share while other companies were being broken up.

It's a really easy product. It is a pretty straightforward product. The only thing that Skyhigh doesn't is what Palo Alto does - they don't do any kind of a software-defined WAN, SD-WAN. If you have different circuits to utilize different bandwidth across different media and also set up redundancy links and that kind of stuff, that's all the SD-WAN. They do not have SD-WAN, Skyhigh Security does not have SD-WAN. Palo Alto does.

They were real big on the secure services, edge SSE and zero-trust network architecture type deployments. A lot of that stuff coming out of the networking and when things moved to a cloud, you have what's called sanction IP, which is basically, what we always knew as an internal network in all the security and firewalls and everything about that and then as things moved to the cloud, business to business type stuff and then you start having what's called shadow IP. That's when you have to build all the firewall policy infrastructure in the cloud to emulate what we were doing down inside of a business, connecting servers or PCs or network switches and that kind of stuff. However, infrastructure as a service is doing the same type of functions yet they're cloud services and not physical network services, or switches, meaning there's no mounting it in the rack and that kind of stuff.

MVISION Cloud can be deployed on the cloud and on-premise.

I am using MVISION Cloud to have visibility for some CLP rules of the access to Office 365 applications.

The most valuable features of MVISION Cloud are the automatic reports and modification incidents.

We use Skyhigh Security to block user access or personal access. We have some services to prevent users from consuming all bandwidth for some applications that are very important for the organization. We also use the solution to permit some users to access personal networks.

The solution provides great security, higher availability, and policy granularity. Its integration with Active Directory and troubleshooting are important. The solution also provides easy integration and implementation.