By Sanjay Castelino – President, Skyhigh Safety
Might 12, 2025 4 Minute Learn
I joined Skyhigh Safety six months in the past and one of the satisfying and insightful issues I’ve accomplished in these six months is to listen to from our prospects and companions. Skyhigh has deep roots in information safety and an bold imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the Safety Service Edge (SSE), however I discovered myself questioning if that was a Skyhigh imaginative and prescient or a buyer imaginative and prescient. Right here’s what I heard.
1. Knowledge Safety Is the New Perimeter
Enterprises are not asking if they want information safety at scale — they’re asking how they will make it seamless, constant, and clever throughout environments. Which means from endpoint, to cloud, to AI mannequin and whether or not it’s at relaxation or in movement. Extra so, how is it protected when your staff are accessing it and when your staff are collaborating with companions and contractors to construct your online business.
Whether or not it’s regulated information in SaaS apps, delicate IP in cloud storage, or monetary data shifting throughout shadow IT, our platform gives unmatched visibility and coverage enforcement. Our unified coverage engine permits safety groups to construct granular guidelines as soon as and apply them constantly, irrespective of the placement, thereby decreasing the operational workload to ship a constant person expertise whereas defending information the identical means— all over the place.
Our location-aware coverage execution means we don’t drive a cloud-only mindset on organizations that also depend on strategic on-prem infrastructure. That is one thing I’ve heard time and time once more from prospects in regulated industries, with a sensitivity to transport their information to the cloud for coverage enforcement or managing their insurance policies within the cloud vs on-premises. Prospects need and want the flexibleness that’s core to our technique regardless of many individuals, from analysts to new entrants, claiming that the cloud is the one proper strategy to safe information entry and use.
2. AI Is Exploding — and Exposing New Gaps
If I needed to create a phrase cloud from my latest buyer conversations, “AI” can be entrance and heart! AI is all over the place — and extra importantly, it’s the brand new frontier for the place organizations retailer and entry information. The tempo and scale of AI adoption, even in extremely regulated industries, has been nothing wanting staggering. However most present safety frameworks weren’t constructed with AI in thoughts, and enterprises are feeling the stress.
Skyhigh Safety’s 2025 Cloud Adoption and Danger Report (CARR) reveals that lower than 10% of organizations have applied information safety insurance policies or controls for AI apps. Which means most are venturing into the AI period and not using a seatbelt — not to mention a map.
Denying entry to AI isn’t sensible. What’s wanted is trendy safety that delivers visibility and management throughout Shadow AI, sanctioned instruments, and personal LLMs — with out slowing innovation.
That’s why we’ve made AI Safety a strategic precedence.
From delivering visibility, governance and information safety controls on shadow AI apps to deep controls on company sanctioned AI apps comparable to Microsoft 365 Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise, and protections round privately constructed AI apps , Skyhigh permits prospects to leverage their present SSE investments and simply prolong to safe their AI utilization as an alternative of on the lookout for yet one more safety device.
3. Hybrid Is Not a Section — It’s the Future
The pundits would let you know that on-prem is useless however that isn’t what I heard from our prospects. I heard a mess of causes for a blended on-prem and cloud, or hybrid safety structure, from compliance with rules, to return to workplace (why ship all of your information to the cloud for inspection), to price, and resilience. For some, cloud-first was a actuality for 90% of their enterprise, however 10% (a important 10%) needed to keep on-prem. I name this dwelling in the true world, the advertising hype of the cloud can solely take you thus far.
What each a type of prospects informed me was that they wished a constant and seamless expertise of their hybrid structure and operational effectivity for his or her SOC groups. Nobody was taken with a number of insurance policies, or completely different DLP approaches. That is the fact of getting to ship safe entry and use of information within the trendy enterprise.
Skyhigh Safety’s method to hybrid environments is designed to handle these evolving wants. Our Safety Service Edge (SSE) platform affords the flexibleness to run on-premise variations of our Safe Internet Gateway (SWG) alongside its cloud counterpart. This twin deployment mannequin ensures that enterprises can preserve constant safety insurance policies throughout each environments, facilitating seamless transitions and unified administration. Skyhigh’s differentiating hybrid method has been broadly applied by world organizations to supply constant safety posture and coverage enforcement throughout a number of environments effectively.
Wanting Forward
As we proceed into the second half of the yr, our focus will stay on innovating the place it issues most to our prospects:
- Knowledge-first safety, powered by DSPM and context-aware DLP
- AI-aware safety that retains tempo with enterprise innovation
- A hybrid SSE platform that’s location-aware, fabric-independent, and constructed for long-term flexibility
We all know that as we double down on these investments, we’re listening to the voice of our prospects and delivering for his or her actuality at the moment and into the longer term.
Concerning the Writer
Sanjay Castelino
President, Skyhigh Safety
Sanjay Castelino has greater than 30 years of expertise in expertise, rising companies from early stage startups to public firms. At Skyhigh Safety, Sanjay focuses on maximizing buyer worth by overseeing your entire product and buyer lifecycle, making certain supply of impactful options. Earlier than becoming a member of Skyhigh Safety, Castelino was the Chief Product and Buyer Officer at Snow Software program, VP of Advertising and marketing and Income Operations at Spiceworks and VP of Product Advertising and marketing and Administration at SolarWinds.
