BigID Next vs Skyhigh Security comparison

BigID and Skyhigh Security are both solutions in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category. BigID is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2, while Skyhigh Security is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8. BigID holds a 2.7% mindshare in DLP, compared to Skyhigh Security’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BigID users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Skyhigh Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 22, 2026

Skyhigh Security and BigID Next compete in comprehensive cloud service management and data classification sectors. BigID Next appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced data classification and machine learning capabilities, surpassing Skyhigh in analytics for data insights.

Features: Skyhigh Security focuses on comprehensive cloud service management with tools for shadow IT identification, DLP capabilities, and regulatory compliance. It provides threat prevention and encryption to enhance security. BigID Next excels in data classification with advanced scanning capabilities for both structured and unstructured data. It offers a comprehensive view of data holdings, aiding in compliance and governance, with machine learning features enhancing its analytics capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Skyhigh Security could improve console performance, streamline report generation, and enhance support for unsanctioned applications. A smoother user interface and better integration with third-party solutions are also needed. BigID Next could enhance its user interface, improve file viewing capabilities, and increase automation features. It faces challenges in data connection across multiple databases and would benefit from enhanced data security features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Skyhigh Security offers deployment flexibility across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, while its customer service scores vary depending on the technician. BigID Next supports diverse deployments but has a limited presence in public clouds. Its customer service is consistently high, with technical support praised for efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: Skyhigh Security's pricing is based on user and subscription levels and is considered expensive despite its extensive features. Long-term agreements need assessment for cost-effectiveness. BigID Next employs modular pricing for specific features, potentially offering more cost-efficiency for businesses with targeted needs. Both are premium solutions, though BigID Next is more valuable for data-centric needs, particularly for comprehensive data management.

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Cloudflare One

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare One is 2.1%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BigID Next is 2.7%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skyhigh Security is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BigID Next	2.7%
Cloudflare One	2.1%
Skyhigh Security	0.9%
Other	94.3%

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Featured Reviews

Cobe Van Coller

Network Architect at IP Dimension

Cloud security has improved remote access and has reduced costs for smaller client sites

I have used Cloudflare One's Identity-Aware Proxy, and it is quite straightforward from what I have seen so far. The app registration on the Azure side integrates fully into Cloudflare, and I am very satisfied with that part because it is easy to set up. The integration of Cloudflare One's Secure Web Gateway and Zero Trust Network Access works without any issues. That part is pretty automatic, and if you complete the rest of the setup, it comes together by itself with no issues from my side. What makes it nice is that we can actually start replacing on-site firewalls at this stage for the smaller clients because it does not matter if they go to a coffee shop or work from home; they are still secured by the same connection. The hops get shorter and you get better latency. We have done testing to see if it is better. One thing that we did notice with our proof of concept with our current client is that they have people connecting from the UK. When they used their previous VPN solution, uploading CAD drawings and other files to the server took a long time. They mentioned that it is much quicker on Cloudflare One's solution. I definitely believe that is part of the improved performance, and I am satisfied with that as well. What is nice about Cloudflare One is that it makes the setup easier and also easier to train technicians to maintain it. Compared to legacy systems, we do not need to get fancy firewalls in place that are costly. That is definitely also a cost-saver with Cloudflare One.

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Aniruddha Nath

Senior Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Data discovery has transformed compliance workflows and automation now speeds up requests and remediation

The best feature that BigID offers is data discovery and classification, which is the most powerful engine. It allows connecting to many different data sources, ranging from cloud to on-premises to structured to unstructured data. If there is no connector available, you can build your own classifiers as well. Regarding the custom classifier option, you can build custom classifiers using regular expressions, and I have done that if you know how to create regular expressions. Custom connectors are something you create to connect to a database where the connector is not available. BigID has positively impacted my organization as it's a very powerful tool, especially with the increasing regulatory compliances for different countries such as GDPR, CCPA, and India's recent DPDPA act. Having these tools in place greatly helps organizations avoid any penal charges for not being compliant with the regulatory compliances. For example, regarding compliance or reduced risks for my clients, the DSAR process I was talking about allows organizations to respond quickly to user data deletion requests under GDPR law, which traditionally has a 30-day or 60-day timeline. In larger organizations, when the number of requests is high, it becomes tedious. However, using DSAR automation with BigID, it's almost instantaneous; instead of 30 days, you can respond in just one day to what users have requested.

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Karthik Sathivel

Technical Associate Network Security at Valuepoint Systems

Proxy integration has strengthened email security and centralized monitoring for all branches

We have nearly 900 plus branches here, where we have rerouted our traffic through proxy like Trellix Skyhigh Security. We operate in a major financial sector in India, and that is why we use Skyhigh Security to reroute all our traffic via proxy for our security. Only then will it reach our gateway. We monitor all the URLs and the plant IPs in our proxy. We are tracing those IPs to see whether they have a valid code or not. We also check with Trellix Sandbox to determine whether the URL is malicious or not. Additionally, we have included our Cisco Umbrella with our proxy, so the DNS resolution happens on our Umbrella side. We continuously monitor the traffic on our proxy side. The threat protection feature is a major useful thing because for our 900 branches we monitor with this proxy only. If any issue or any URL does not reach, it is quite helpful to check whether the issue is in the proxy side or in the actual end-user side. It is quite easy to monitor. We do not get all those things from the firewall end, and it is quite easy to gather that information from the proxy, which is a major benefit here. It also majorly helps to hide our actual IPs, as we have directed all the IPs from the proxy, making it very helpful to hide our internal servers.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Cloudflare Access is part of the Zero Trust philosophy."

"It's a perfect solution from my perspective; it's easy to understand and easy to configure."

"The best feature is rate limiting. If I'm expecting 500 visits per hour, Cloudflare will limit the requests if I suddenly get 50,000."

"The capabilities of the software are strong enough for me to do what it's supposed to do. For me, we don't need to do a lot of configuration on our site. We just enable it and monitor it."

"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable features as almost no effort was needed to learn the configurations. It is also one of the cheapest firewalls available in this category."

"Clover is the best product globally."

"Using Cloudflare One makes my work quite easy because for DDoS protection, all I need to do is understand the OSI model and click; it makes it easier than trying to write a command line or use a Linux command."

"For Cloudflare Access, I am using the free plan...The most valuable feature is their protection."

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"BigID integrates well with our other products."

"It provides a unified view across different databases and supports a wide range of data source types, including cloud and on-premises systems."

"Although I was serving the client rather than my own organization, BigID has made scans faster and more efficient, and the DSR results are much more accurate."

"My experience with BigID has been very positive and memorable, as BigID is simple, straightforward, and reliable when it comes to data discovery and data scanning exercises."

"I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a standout compared to competitors. The tool's data classification capabilities are impressive. It offers custom classifiers and a blend of regular exploration and artificial intelligence, making it a next-generation solution. This enhances data security, and its security posture management is straightforward and user-friendly."

"BigID's scanning feature is its most valuable component."

"The best feature that BigID offers is data discovery and classification, which is the most powerful engine, allowing connection to many different data sources ranging from cloud to on-premises and from structured to unstructured data, with the ability to build your own classifiers if no connector is available."

"The features that I have found most valuable are the user experience, the credentialing, and that BigID is user friendly."

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"We are able to see what cloud services are being used with more clarity than with our proxies."

"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."

"The support is excellent."

"I found the solution to be stable."

"The ability to identify shadow IT within our environment through proxy log analysis based on risk assessments provided by Skyhigh Registry have been invaluable in helping us reduce our overall data risk."

"Without Skyhigh, we had zero visibility, but now we are aware of so much more."

"Shadow IT Sanctioned IT."

"It is easy to configure rules."

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Cons

"Feedback could be enhanced. While I work efficiently with Clover as a partner in Mexico City, sometimes the information and requests are easier to manage with more concrete solutions."

"Our customers no longer use Cloudflare because its service is subpar."

"Cloudflare DDoS has poor technical support."

"Our subscription plan for the solution has a limitation of bot signatures."

"There are premium tier live service and lower tier live service, so we opted for the lower tier. But there is no medium tier where we pay a little extra and get a bit more service. So if that can be improved."

"Cloudflare One is not very powerful, but for what we require, it is basic and sufficient."

"The response time for support must be reduced."

"The initial onboarding was causing us some confusion."

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"One area where BigID can be improved is the UI, which has a lot of bugs."

"The tool currently lacks security features."

"Improvement could be made in data consent management and data privacy impact assessment."

"The challenge we encountered was with data connection across multiple databases. We struggled with configuring the data connection successfully. However, with the assistance of dynamic teams, we resolved this issue."

"I want them to focus on data mapping, assessment, automation workflow, and privacy incident management."

"Some users find catalog navigation challenging due to the lack of a search-by-column feature, which makes it difficult to locate specific data quickly."

"One improvement I would suggest is addressing the intermittent failures of BigID scans, as there are times when some errors occur."

"There are some shortcomings when it comes to Calvirus authentication, which is not yet supported by BigID."

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"One area for improvement I've seen in Skyhigh Security is that it lacks support for unsanctioned applications, where customers have their applications. Those applications do not come from Microsoft or other popular vendors. For example, Microsoft has support for Teams and it has support for OneDrive, but it doesn't have support for custom applications built by customers. Customers have internal teams building and publishing applications to the external world, but Skyhigh Security doesn't have support for those applications, and this is the main problem I've seen. The solution only supports a pool of applications that are from Microsoft and other major SaaS vendors. McAfee doesn't provide support for custom applications, compared to other vendors who provide it. For example, Bitglass and Netskope both have support for custom applications. Another area for improvement in Skyhigh Security is that its API support is a little weak. I also have not seen a strong integration between the solution and other McAfee products."

"The encrypted disk implementation could be improved. I currently use it from a dongle or USB key with two-factor authentication to access my computer."

"It is an expensive solution."

"De-tokenization."

"Skyhigh Security, as a product, is excellent, but in terms of the right services and support, those are lagging very much, for example, in Trellix. From one hundred, its score has gone down to ten, so ten out of one hundred, otherwise, it's the number one product."

"McAfee Web Gateway could improve the reporting. We have the reporting on a separate server and sometimes the database becomes full."

"Iron out the few bugs that I've seen."

"It has many gaps, so I think some customers take three months and up to six months for the deployment of Skyhigh Security, and after the deployment, they use it for years."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

"Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform's pricing is good."

"The prices are slightly expensive."

"The price tag is no longer $200,000, but rather $300,000 to $400,000. It's twice."

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no hidden charges apart from the licensing costs of the solution."

"The solution is not that expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is cheap. The licensing cost is also very low. I rate the cost and pricing a three out of ten."

"The solution's pricing lacks transparency."

"The product is expensive, but so are all competitor tools"

"The solution is not licensed per user but rather based on capacity. For instance, organizations with large amounts of data, such as 50 GB or more, are the ones that typically qualify for BigID."

"I think that BigID's pricing is very reasonable."

"The pricing depends. If you have thousands of data sources to connect and manage, and you struggled with an MDM package in the past, you'll find BigID valuable and even cheap. But if you're a small business, it's probably not the right tool for you."

"The solution is expensive."

"Pricing for Skyhigh Security is okay, though there's always a scope for price improvements. Its pricing is okay compared to other products because other products have very expensive licensing costs. Along with the licensing, support is also provided for Skyhigh Security, so pricing is reasonable, but if there's proactive or better support, that will justify the pricing. I haven't interacted with the Skyhigh Security technical support team yet, so I'd give pricing a four out of five rating for now."

"There is a license required to use this solution and it is paid annually. The price is reasonable."

"The price of the solution is good and we pay an annual license."

"They definitely charge a huge amount. All the security service providers charge a huge amount."

"It's an expensive solution."

"Some of our clients have a perpetual license and pay additional support yearly."

"Commercially, I find Skyhigh Security a little costlier, compared to other products such as SentinelOne or Cybereason which are really novelty products. I'm not comparing Skyhigh Security with Trend Micro, but with other products, in particular the new, next-generation products. The price for Skyhigh Security is high in terms of value and ROI. I would rate the product price combined with product efficacy a six out of ten."

"Skyhigh provided a FedRAMP solution, tokenization, a better shadow IT capability, and lower cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

20%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	12

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	11

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	40

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What do you like most about BigID?

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Overview

Cloudflare One is a comprehensive platform for security, performance, and connectivity. It provides features like rate limiting, DDoS protection, and application access, tailored to enhance user experience while securing internet access and accelerating communications.

Designed to integrate security measures with ease of use and scalability, Cloudflare One offers a secure web gateway and zero trust network access. These features ensure seamless setup and operation, making connectivity reliable and protected. Users appreciate its integrated console, intuitive interface, and the ability to manage risk effectively. It offers straightforward deployment, improves latency, and boasts cost-effectiveness. While its onboarding process and documentation need enhancement, its value in content delivery and application shielding is notable. Despite challenges in integrating Cloudflare Access with existing VPNs and the need for better automation and support, it remains vital for DNS and infrastructure protection.

What features make Cloudflare One stand out?

Rate Limiting: Controls the traffic rate to prevent abuse.
DDoS Protection: Shields applications from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Secure Web Gateway: Provides secure internet access with seamless operation.
Zero Trust Network Access: Ensures secure, application-based connectivity without relying on traditional VPNs.
Access for Connectivity: Facilitates access to internal applications securely.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Security: Robust measures for DNS and browsing protection.
Performance: Enhanced site accessibility and communication speed.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers competitive pricing for its features.
Ease of Deployment: Straightforward and efficient setup process.

In industries like finance, retail, and technology, Cloudflare One is crucial for enabling secure remote access and protecting web applications against dynamic threats. It supports compliance access policies and enhances content delivery, playing a key role in safeguarding digital infrastructure.

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BigID Next offers advanced data discovery, classification, and governance tools, streamlining compliance with privacy laws while integrating seamlessly with Microsoft platforms.

BigID Next provides comprehensive data management through machine learning-enhanced capabilities, supporting data discovery and classification for both structured and unstructured data. By simplifying processes for GDPR and CCPA compliance, and facilitating data scanning and mapping across databases, it optimizes data management. Automation is central to its design, with solutions for DSAR requests, organizing data with security labels, and ensuring a holistic organizational data view. Improvements in navigation, bug fixes, and scan reliability remain essential, along with enhancing classifiers for broader region coverage.

What features does BigID Next offer?

User-Friendly Interface: Easily navigable for streamlined data operations.
Microsoft Integration: Seamless compatibility with Microsoft platforms.
Data Scanning Capabilities: Efficiently scans structured and unstructured data.
Data Classification and Discovery: Identifies and categorizes sensitive data.
Security Labels: Supports predefined and custom security labels.
Automation for PII Requests: Automates privacy request management.
Compliance Adherence: Aligns with GDPR and CCPA requirements.
Scheduling Scans: Facilitates planned data assessments.
Machine Learning: Enhances data mapping, auditing, and management.

What benefits should users look for?

Enhanced Compliance: Supports adherence to major privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA.
Data Mapping Efficiency: Improves data locating and classification.
Automation Features: Saves time with automated data request handling.
Comprehensive Integration: Works well with existing security tools.
Holistic Data View: Offers clear insights into data storage and use.

BigID Next is commonly implemented in industries needing robust data governance, such as finance and healthcare, where data privacy and compliance with regulations are critical. It aids in scanning and classifying extensive data volumes, helping businesses maintain regulatory compliance while managing data risks effectively.

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Skyhigh Security provides comprehensive protection with features like user behavior analytics, shadow IT identification, and data loss prevention. Its integration with IT infrastructure offers robust security insights and helps maintain compliance.

Skyhigh Security offers a user-friendly interface that simplifies navigation while delivering substantial threat protection. It enhances existing IT infrastructure integration, such as DLP and Active Directory, to strengthen security. Yet, there is room for improvement in report generation speed, interface intuitiveness, and integration with other products. Organizations utilize Skyhigh Security to audit internet behavior, secure cloud environments and control web content. It effectively manages data movement and ensures compliance, while preventing unauthorized access and bandwidth misuse.

What are the key features of Skyhigh Security?

Shadow IT Identification: Detects unauthorized IT activity to maintain security.
Cloud Service Risk Assessments: Offers detailed evaluations of cloud services' risks.
Data Loss Prevention: Protects against accidental or deliberate data breaches.
User Behavior Analytics: Analyzes user actions for potential security threats.
Security Insights: Provides comprehensive reports to understand security posture.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Threat Protection: Offers robust measures against potential security risks.
Compliance: Assists with industry regulations and standards adherence.
Integration Capabilities: Enhances protection by integrating with existing infrastructure.
User Experience: Easy navigation despite needing interface improvements.
Cloud Security: Secures cloud environments effectively.

In sectors like finance, healthcare, and technology, companies implement Skyhigh Security for its comprehensive monitoring capabilities. It helps secure access to SaaS applications and protects against threats, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and preventing data breaches while optimizing performance in cloud environments.

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