NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

The benefits of cloud are undeniable: companies who embrace cloud services improve time to market and process efficiency while reducing operational and IT maintenance costs. But even enterprise-ready cloud services require an extra layer of security. Cloud usage is based on the shared liability model; even “secure” cloud services can be used in risky ways.

As corporate data moves to the cloud and employees access data from mobile devices, they bypass existing security technologies, creating what Gartner calls a “SaaS security gap”. Skyhigh, as the first and leading cloud access security broker (CASB), offers a control point for enforcing security policies across cloud services. Skyhigh’s customers extend on-premises controls to the cloud so they can confidently employ SaaS applications for core business functions. By 2020, Gartner predicts 85% of enterprises will secure their cloud usage using a CASB, up from less than 1% in 2012.

Skyhigh has taken a platform approach based on a frictionless reverse proxy and API architecture to offer visibility and security for all SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS applications in use. Skyhigh caters to four specific functionalities: visibility into cloud usage and risk, monitoring and enforcement to maintain regulatory compliance, data security including function-preserving encryption and key management, and threat protection aimed at detecting and preventing compromised accounts and malicious usage.