Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway Capabilities

Skyhigh SWG: Best-in-Class Solution

With the volume and variety of internet threats increasing today, cloud-native SWGs have become indispensable for any organization that seeks to build security resilience - and especially for those that are on a cloud transformation journey and have adopted a hybrid or fully remote work model. Organizations are concerned about cloud or network outages, which may impact performance, lack of control over and visibility into the cloud operations, and protection for sensitive corporate data stored, used, and shared in the cloud.

Cloud-native Skyhigh SWG allays those concerns by extending protection between the boundaries of the corporate network, enabling secure web connectivity for every device, user, and location. As part of the Skyhigh Cloud Platform, Skyhigh SWG brings elevated security to your network and cloud transformation with infinitely scalable cloud capacity - without the need for expensive, high-maintenance appliances. As a best-in-class solution, Skyhigh SWG delivers exceptional performance and 99.999% availability, along with the industry’s leading advanced threat protection capabilities, to ensure minimal latency and robust security. This is especially important, considering that 38% of organizations struggle with their remote or hybrid users experiencing latency or bandwidth issues – as stated in The Data Dilemma: Cloud Adoption and Risk Report from 2023.

Now you can empower your remote and hybrid workforce with a security service edge (SSE) that processes traffic for unauthorized access, data risk, and threats from anywhere in the world—without compromising security or speed. Centrally managed Skyhigh SWG applies the same consistent policies and level of protection when your users go to the cloud, regardless of whether they are working from home or at remote offices.

To further simplify your technology stack and minimize management complexity, Skyhigh SWG converges fully with your SD-WAN. And, if mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are on the horizon, you’ll find it easy to add new users and get them up and running quickly.

Key Advantages

• Provides unparalleled, advanced data protection to all websites and cloud applications and services.
• Maintains 99.999% service availability for continuous connectivity by re-routing web traffic as needed.
• Increases your cloud capacity in as little as 15 minutes, no longer waiting days to deploy a new appliance.
• Neutralizes zero-day threats and other malware with advanced threat protection, including built-in, fully integrated RBI.
• Expand visibility and control over access to cloud applications, including Shadow IT, and avoid being part of the 75% of organizations that struggle with Shadow IT impairing their ability to keep data secure. (The Data Dilemma: Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, 2023)
• Accelerates your digital transformation to Skyhigh SSE.

Unmatched Protection: DLP, Threat  Protection, and RBI

Skyhigh SWG secures users and data with unified advanced protection.

Its industry-leading DLP engine safeguards your sensitive data and users across all vectors: the web, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS), and private applications. Integrated with Skyhigh SWG, the DLP engine protects sensitive data from flowing out of your organization or being accessed by the wrong people in real-time. This prevents your data from being uploaded to unauthorized websites. DLP policies are enforced through multiple methods, and, if incidents arise, you can swiftly remediate issues based on severity through quarantine, deletion of malicious content, coaching users, and other techniques.

Enterprise-grade threat protection scans content for viruses and malware, detecting known or zero-day threats in real-time. Emulation sandboxing stops threats in their tracks and isolates them from your environment, allowing you to analyze how they work and what you can do to stop them. Automated threat protection controls reduce the number of alerts and incidents that security teams need to respond to.

Also fully integrated at no extra cost is Skyhigh Security’s remote browser isolation (RBI) technology, which provides a safe and seamless web browsing experience for users. It automatically eliminates threats from potentially malicious websites, emails, links, ads, and downloads by ensuring that malicious code never comes near a user’s device. It also leverages user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) so you can gain insights into user web activities to help you maintain compliance and monitor insider threats.

Consistent policies, data protection, and visibility across isolated and non-isolated traffic work together to help you improve overall operational efficiency. Since Skyhigh SWG fully converges with the Skyhigh Cloud Platform, you can add additional security services as required—all managed by the same console.

Business Benefits

• Zero-day Malware Protection
  • Keep threats from ever reaching your users with multi-layer security and fully integrated RBI.
• Unparalleled Protection for Sensitive Data
  • Protect sensitive data by extending zero trust principles beyond access to data use with the most advanced DLP framework in the industry.
• Uninterrupted Access with Minimal Latency
  • Provide users with continuous access to the internet, corporate networks, and cloud applications, and empower your remote workforce to be more productive with 99.999% uptime covered by a strong SLA.
• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership and Management Complexity
  • Ease the burden on security teams with single-console management for policies, incidents, and workflows across multiple environments, enjoy cost savings from reduced hardware and elimination of expensive MPLS traffic, and increase performance, reliability, and scalability.

Skyhigh SWG for Hybrid: Extend your On-Premises Policies to the Cloud

Combine the strength of appliances with the power of the cloud. The hybrid deployment mode for Skyhigh SWG allows organizations the flexibility to move to the cloud at their own pace while keeping the necessary on-premises appliances – all managed from a single console. This hybrid model extends the same classifications and security policies for web access for both on-premises and cloud users in just a single click. This means that you can enforce the same sophisticated policies for your entire hybrid workforce while avoiding the additional time and effort of rewriting your policies from scratch.

Skyhigh Security is the first, and one of the only, vendors to offer this powerful deployment mode.

The Industry-leading Data-first Skyhigh Security Service Edge (SSE) Platform

Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway is part of the unified Skyhigh Cloud Platform that integrates multiple innovative security technologies - Zero Trust Private Access (ZTNA), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) - all managed from the same central console. The Skyhigh Cloud Platform enables fast, reliable, and safe work-from-anywhere and digital transformation by securing web, cloud, and private applications. 

The Skyhigh Cloud Platform addresses the complexity of remote workforce deployments with centralized visibility and incident management, adaptive and tailored access control, end-to-end data protection, and advanced threat protection. By partnering with leading SD-WAN vendors, Skyhigh Security delivers cloud security with a simplified, reliable, and low-latency service that aligns with your roadmap for your SSE journey.

Being data-aware means that the Skyhigh Cloud Platform provides modern data protection policies for data in motion and data at rest that determine what can be accessed, what can be shared, and how it can be used. It goes beyond zero trust by monitoring user actions to identify risky behavior: sites visited, personal or work devices, employee or contractor, type of data, and many other factors. It ensures sensitive data is accessed, shared, and stored appropriately.

Large enterprises across all sectors - from government agencies to financial institutions - look to Skyhigh Security to protect their data across their hybrid infrastructure. Our customers include nearly half of the Fortune 100 and more than a third of the Fortune 500.

   A single pane of glass management interface to manage web-based and cloud-based risks and threats.

Key Use Cases

• Comprehensive, advanced protection against online threats
  • Protect users from malware and data loss with multi-layer security: scan all downloads against known and unknown threats with our machine learning-based emulation sandbox and against potentially malicious sites with RBI.
• Flexible access control
  • Integrate with the Skyhigh CASB Cloud Registry to restrict access to unsecure or non-corporate websites based on categories, reputation, and risk. Apply different policies to personal and corporate tenants, prevent potential infections and data loss, and enforce corporate internet browsing policy.
• Advanced data protection
  • Apply DLP policies to web traffic and sensitive data to prevent exfiltration of sensitive data to unsanctioned cloud applications while monitoring usage through a single, easy to-use dashboard.
• Robust policy engine
  • Take advantage of predefined features, and augment them with your own use cases without waiting for product revisions.

Skyhigh SWG Features

The Industry’s Most Advanced Data Protection Engine: Protects sensitive data from being uploaded to unauthorized websites across all vectors—web, SaaS, IaaS, and private applications—through multiple advanced technologies:

• Exact Data Matching (EDM): Accurately fingerprints large structured data stores with billions of cells 1,000 times faster than other solutions and swiftly deploys data protection rules to prevent exfiltration and inappropriate sharing across all applications.
• Indexed Document Matching (IDM): Safeguards unstructured data in text documents and image files through fingerprinting and indexing. IDM detects proprietary information in PDFs, documents, JPEG images, and more. Once data is fingerprinted, you can add a DLP policy rule to leverage that indexed data and further reduce the risk of data loss.
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Extracts text out of documents and images and scans these for sensitive information, empowering you to prevent data misuse, loss, and theft.
• Enterprise-grade Threat Protection: Provides zero-day malware protection by integrating RBI, machine learning, emulation-based sandboxing, and real-time global threat intelligence.
• Natively Integrated RBI: Offers the most powerful form of web threat protection available, preventing malicious code from touching the end user’s device. RBI is available at no extra cost, something that no other vendor in the market can claim.
• Cloud Risk Mitigation: Allows users to securely use the web and cloud apps from anywhere and stay productive.
• Automated Threat Protection Controls: Reduces the number of alerts and incidents that security teams need to respond to.
• Consistent policies, Data Protection, and Visibility: Applies the same level of capabilities across isolated and non-isolated traffic, improving overall operational efficiency.
• Fully Customizable Policy Code: Modify the code for the web policy as needed. This empowers you to address even the most unique use cases, without having to wait for future releases. This incredible level of granularity and customization takes your policies beyond out-of-the-box setup.
• Application Visibility and Control: Blocks access to websites based on categories, reputation, or risk. It applies different policies to personal and corporate tenants, prevents potential infections and data loss, and enforces internet browsing policy. You gain expanded visibility and control over access to cloud applications, including Shadow IT.
• URL and Category Filtering: Blocks access to risky and/or malicious content and phishing sites and prevents malware.

Additional Details

Provide your remote workforce with continuous, high-performance connectivity while protecting them from web-based threats and preventing data exfiltration with Skyhigh SWG.

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