Skyhigh Networks Announces Availability of Industry's Most Advanced Data Security Solution

Data security continues to be the most significant barrier to cloud adoption. Realizing this, Skyhigh Networks, the cloud access security company, recently introduced the industry’s first comprehensive solution that allows organizations to successfully address their critical cloud data protection requirements.

A PwC report titled "The Future of IT Outsourcing and Cloud Computing," has found that around 62 percent of respondents rated data security as a "serious" or "extremely serious" risk.

Officials said that with the help of the newly released Skyhigh Secure, IT and information security teams can proactively protect data in the cloud without even changing the end-user experience.

The solution’s mobile to cloud capabilities allow secure access of cloud services directly from mobile devices without the need for agents, downloads, or other footprints on the device.

"Like most enterprises, we needed a complete solution that allowed us to discover what cloud services were in use and leverage big data analytics to assess risks of corporate data moving to and from these cloud services," said Brian Lillie, chief information officer at Equinix (News - Alert), in a press statement. "With Skyhigh Secure, we have the intelligence around risks to our organization and we are able to protect corporate data without impacting business user productivity."

Skyhigh Secure supports leading cloud services across all major categories and offers proactive and adaptive security that uses real-time application and usage analytics to detect threats and secure data to and from cloud services.

"The cloud should be viewed as an asset and not as a threat, but organizations are slow to fully adopt cloud services because of concerns around the security of their data," said Rajiv Gupta, CEO of Skyhigh Networks. "With Skyhigh Secure, we are effectively providing our customers with a virtual 'cloud edge' that consistently and transparently enforces their security, privacy, and regulatory policies on their corporate data stored in cloud services."

Recently, TMC (News - Alert) reported that Skyhigh Networks has been named a Top 25 Coolest Emerging Technology Vendor of 2013 by UBM Tech Channel's CRN Magazine.