Skyhigh Security Primary Use Case
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DeepakGupta_
Deputy Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I primarily use Skyhigh Security for CASB in a Cloud Access Security Broker, and it has been integrated with Trellix DLP. Both Trellix and Skyhigh Security are utilized as on-premise solutions to secure clouds and emails.
Skyhigh Security is used as a cloud service for all mail, with Microsoft Exchange integrated through Skyhigh Security, which is also integrated with Trellix. All policies applied on Trellix are applicable on Skyhigh Security, and traffic flows through Skyhigh Security, creating incident logs that are reviewed and acted upon accordingly with the user.
With 18,000 users, Skyhigh Security has proven beneficial in reducing incidents. Two members manage Skyhigh Security CASB completely, which is sufficient for our organization.
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Delicate Prism
Cybersecurity Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is securing critical SaaS platforms, namely Salesforce and Office 365.
A specific example of how I use Skyhigh Security with Salesforce and Office 365 is limiting access to the service from managed devices only.
In addition to my main use case, we also provide restricted access to Salesforce from unmanaged devices that keeps the data in Salesforce safe while enabling necessary access.
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reviewer2841963
Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees
My main use cases for Skyhigh Security were securing internet access for people working remotely before the COVID pandemic, and helping prevent data loss through people uploading files and sensitive information to web-based services and online storage drives.
A specific example of a scenario where I used Skyhigh Security for one of these use cases is when the agent was installed on all of our laptops. This meant that even when we were working from home and not on the VPN, whenever we were browsing the web, all of the content that we were seeing and all of the URLs we were trying to visit were going through the cloud instances of the Skyhigh Security scanners to ensure we did not go to prohibited websites and that there were no malicious files downloaded to our laptops.
Skyhigh Security worked reasonably well, I very rarely had issues, and their uptime was good enough that we did not experience any outages.
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Skyhigh Security
September 2026
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Karthik Sathivel
Technical Associate Network Security at Valuepoint Systems
I am currently working on Cisco Email Security Gateway, ESA, and I am also exploring Trellix Skyhigh proxy. I have been working with Skyhigh Security for the last six to seven months. My customer is using the solution, and we are supporting the client location as well. They have a vendor in the Bangalore area of southern India from which they procured on-premises servers.
In security posture, we have integrated Skyhigh Security with IBM QRadar, which is quite helpful to know how the activities are going. If any critical or security events occur in Skyhigh Security, we are able to get those to our IBM QRadar, making it very much easier to monitor all the security events in our environment. This is a major use case compared to other tools, as Skyhigh Security is the most useful for our security posture.
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Madhukar Pandey
Team Leader at L & T Finance
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is for data security, where I use it as a CASB product.
I use Skyhigh Security day-to-day by integrating it with our different cloud components, creating policies for data leakage or data discovery, and receiving alerts for policy violations.
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RafaelMartins
Sales Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is preventing cloud access and user activity, especially around SaaS applications, DLP, web security, and visibility into risky user behavior.
I have a recent example of how I use Skyhigh Security for protecting cloud access and monitoring risky user behavior. The workflow was to identify the risk activity, validate if it was legitimate by the proper DLP policy, and then use the visibility to support the security team of the client, reducing the exposure.
Mainly, I use Skyhigh Security to monitor cloud and web activity, validate risk, and help the security team understand where sensitive data may be exposed or leaving the environment.
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Eunsok Kim
Secure at ESCARE COLtd
I am familiar with Skyhigh and Symantec. The customer's AWS environment is being used, so that understanding is correct. I help customers install and maintain policies and also provide deployment for my customers. They use Threat Protection and the categories, and the antivirus in the Web Proxy as part of the solution they use. I only work with Security Web Gateway, so that is my experience.
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Pratap Roy
Security Consultant at RL
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is working in a Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway that is an on-premises proxy at Gail India Limited. In that environment, I use Skyhigh Security as an on-premises proxy, so its job is to act as a proxy between the user and the internet and maintain the security of the overall organization.
Skyhigh Security supports various day-to-day tools in today's cybersecurity world, including the GAM engine and GTA engine, which is a very good feature in Skyhigh Security on-premises proxy. Previously, I worked on a CASB solution with an API-based DLP integration.
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Product Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I do not use Skyhigh Security firsthand, but M.Tech Philippines distributes Skyhigh Security as one of the authorized distributors. My main use case for Skyhigh Security in my role as a distributor is to position SWG in the market. We have noticed that companies in the Philippines are not yet ready for the full SSE suite. As a startup, we are positioning SWG because the Philippines is not yet ready for the whole SSE suite unless it is mandated by the bank.
One specific example of how we have positioned SWG with a client is that M.Tech used to be a distributor of Broadcom or Blue Coat in the Philippines, and we lost the distributorship, which was transferred to Wesco. One of the strategies we are using is to approach those customers who are Broadcom or Blue Coat users and replace it with SWG. We are offering a competitive swap campaign or displacement campaign, and we are offering high incentives for those partners who will position and replace Broadcom and Blue Coat.
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Security automation specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is blocking malicious websites, blocking non-DLP acceptable websites, preventing data sharing, enforcing DLP, preventing access to unpleasant websites, and preventing people from using YouTube, advertisement applications, or LinkedIn. We mainly use it to make the work environment dedicated to work without giving employees entertainment that is not allowed.
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Balu Paulraj
Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is for application monitoring to monitor security threats, risk activity, and to create company policies.
I can give you a quick specific example of how I use Skyhigh Security for monitoring threats or enforcing company policies: we were using a lot of cloud apps including Office 365, and we wanted to have control over that. The cloud security provided a dashboard with features including web security and cloud access control, which was very helpful.
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Mohit Saraswat
Escalation Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is its security, applying policy on the user, platform-independent, location-independent policy for users. It is easy to troubleshoot, easy to apply the policy, and easy to refer to the logs.
In my day-to-day work, I use Skyhigh Security to manage two specific people in my team, one being a vendor and the other a full-time employee. I have a different policy for contractors and full-time employees. Using Skyhigh Security, it is easy to implement those policies based on the user, user type, group type, or the device they are using, and the location of the user.
Overall, I personally use Skyhigh Security for Shadow IT discovery, which is very useful. Being able to see which unsanctioned apps employees are accessing helps me prioritize policy decisions, so that secure web gateway and CASB perform reliably for policy enforcement and filtering. Additionally, integration with my existing infrastructure was smoother than expected.
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Senior Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
At our company, we mainly use Skyhigh Security as a secure web gateway proxy.
We use Skyhigh Security for web filtering and whitelisting, blacklisting websites, and general web traffic filtering, mainly for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
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Akhilesh Mishra
Technical Lead Pre-Sales at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Skyhigh Security is primarily used by us to offer our customers SSE (Secure Service Edge), and Skyhigh fulfills this requirement very effectively.
One of our customers was seeking a CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) solution and was unable to manage shadow applications. Some applications were sanctioned while others were unsanctioned, and the customer had no visibility into the unsanctioned applications. We offered them Skyhigh Security, and they are now satisfied. Skyhigh Security offers many SSE products including Secure Web Gateway, both cloud-based and on-premises versions. They also provide ZTNA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), which is excellent, Remote Browser Isolation for controlling user access to applications, and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform.
Whenever our customers require Skyhigh Security, we offer it to them, and it provides outstanding SSE capabilities. Their SSE security service is excellent and aligns with customer requirements.
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
My main use case for Skyhigh Security is CASB and cloud security. A specific example of how I use Skyhigh Security for CASB and cloud security is that we are protecting sensitive information from being leaked out of our Microsoft and other systems.
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Information Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Skyhigh Security serves as a proxy to block requests that are going to the internet, and we are also using it as ZTNA. In our daily operations, we use Skyhigh Security as a proxy to block requests which are not supposed to happen, and to migrate ourselves from VPN, we are using the ZTNA technology which is being provided by Skyhigh. Trellix and Skyhigh are the same company.
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Marghoob AhmadSalik
Se Presales at Redington Group
We use the solution to provide security to remote users.
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Santiago Gomez
Cio at a security firm with 11-50 employees
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.
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IT Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We use Skyhigh Security to audit people for internet behavior and for the discovery of shadow IT devices.
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Gururaj Meghraj
Technical Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
So we are using Skyhigh for SWG and CASB. Those are the two primary use cases. We also use it as a web proxy to allow users to access the internet securely. The product includes content filtering and reporting. In addition, we use McAfee EPO to manage McAfee antivirus and proxy agents.
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VIJAY PANDEY
Network Architect at neev limited
The typical use case for our clients is cloud security.
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Yovanny Amariles
Information Security Leader at Alcaldía de Medellín
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.
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Chinthu James
SME/Manager -Secure Web Access at Capgemini
We use the solution to monitor and secure our customers' internet access.
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VIJAY PANDEY
Network Architect at neev limited
Our primary use case for Skyhigh Security is ICAP. We're also using it for web proxy and filtering purposes for all internal company websites and user sites such as Microsoft Team filtering.
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Information Security Leader at Alcaldía de Medellín
McAfee Web Gateway is used as a proxy gateway in our company.
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David Ferreira
Network Security Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
We use this solution for web filtering.
I integrate and manage the solution. It's deployed on-premises.
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Jathin Das
Solutions Architect at Paramount Computer Systems
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.
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Sr. Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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.
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Fernando Allendes
Senior IT Security Consultant at Universal Network Solutions, Inc (UNS)
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.
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Nadeem Syed
CEO at Haniya Technologies
We have 2 customers using McAfee Web Gateway. It is very useful as a complement to endpoint security. It is used to monitor incoming and outgoing traffic, as well as production.
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Hai Quach
Senior IT Consultant at Yusen Logistics
We primarily use the solution for security purposes. We specifically use it for endpoint protection.
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Data Centric Security Expert, Strategic DCAP Business Enabler at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use this product for enterprise cloud security. My role is in strategy and security.
Thanakorn Withawatkajee
Senior Product Consultant at M.Tech
We are currently using Skyhigh Security with Office 365. We are, however, looking for another similar tool to be able to compare capacities with Skyhigh Security.
Our primary use case is the protection of sensitive information.
reviewer2117211
Delivery Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I have been implementing this solution for protection as an ERP solution. I've been using it to protect and implement private apps.
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Milos Tolpa
IT Engineer at FormatPC
We use this solution for controlling web content that the users are accessing. It's very good in case situations where you have the use of a VPN connection.
You can control your employees when they are in the office and out of the office, without using a VPN in the same fashion.
The on-premise solution will control them when they are on the corporate network, and when they're off the corporate network, the cloud's gateway will control them. They have the same policies.
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Milos Tolpa
IT Engineer at FormatPC
If you don't need an on-premises console for central management, this solution works very well. That's its main benefit. It's useful for companies that have a workforce that is dispersed as opposed to in a central location.
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Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the solution for security purposes. McAfee in general is very good for that.
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Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution is basically it's a cloud access security broker. It's basically the leading cloud access security broker in the market. If you are talking about getting controlling access to AWS, Azure or Google cloud, or most of the major cloud providers, they can integrate that to help protect an organization from data loss, breaches, or from unauthorized access in general.
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Amadou Gatta Ba
IT Project Manager Individual Contributor at infolog
We use the solution for endpoint security.
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Lead - Information Security at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
My experience with this product is from an evaluation standpoint. Since everybody is adopting cloud technologies such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, they want to ensure that their data is secure. This product can be used to help people access our cloud applications securely, control users, and manage data movement over the cloud with respect to our data classification policies.
We have conducted a PoC but have not used it in our production environment.
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Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
This is a web security product, it controls the usage of web for employees. There is an integral anti-virus and web URL filtering solution. I've used the solution in multiple companies that I worked in, and for the last six months I have a new company and I sell the solution along with other security products. I'm a security engineer.
reviewer1294107
Vice President - Risk Management, Chief Information Security Officer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We use this solution to protect us against online threats, as well as for user activity monitoring.
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Director, GRC Applications and Systems Delivery at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We use this solution as a CASB, a Cloud Access Security Broker, to gain insight into our cloud environment. We integrate this solution for our clients as a companion service to our main cloud product.
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Ankush-Jain
Deputy Specialist/Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is to prevent employees from extracting the data out of their corporate system and getting them outside through Gmail and things like that.
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Sr. Analyst Governance and Compliance at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
We use it for cloud risk services.
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Information Assurance Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We use it to discover, protect, and permit.
Skyhigh for Shadow IT provides us visibility into the Shadow IT. It helps us in blocking high risk services and also in containing the data exfiltration to these high risk services.
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Information Security Analyst at Kronos at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We implemented Skyhigh for Shadow IT monitoring as well as Microsoft Office 365 real-time auditing. We monitor these on a daily basis and are currently in the process of implementing policies if certain activities are done by our end users.
it_user789939
IT Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Insight into services being accessed and/or used in corporate environment. Additionally, Shadow IT as a whole and provides another set of eyes on web proxy logs.
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Works at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- The user analytics
- Having a full idea about infrastructure
it_user774504
Supervisor, IT Security at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
- Shadow IT monitoring
- Sanctioned Cloud App Security
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Mateus Rodrigues
IT Intern
We use it to block malicious IP addresses and check for security leaks.
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