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Skyhigh Networks Awarded Pioneering CASB Patents for Cloud Security and Cloud GovernanceSkyhigh Networks, the world's leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), announced today the company has been awarded two new CASB patents for security and governance capabilities. This official recognition follows nearly four years of comprehensive assessment by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, further validating Skyhigh's risk-based approach to helping customers safely adopt software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services. The two new patents, 'Cloud Service Usage Risk Assessment' and 'Cloud Service Risk Usage Monitoring System,' brings Skyhigh's granted portfolio count to eight, forming the most robust and growing patented technology portfolio in the CASB industry. Previous CASB patents granted to Skyhigh covered cloud-based encryption with enterprise managed keys, increasingly critical for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy regulations; and identity-based, mobile-to-cloud inline security enforcement, critical for any inline CASB use case. A combination of these seminal patents positions Skyhigh as the CASB industry leader covering cloud discovery, compliance, data security and threat protection. "Cloud is very strategic for our business, and we expect our partners to deliver solutions that both add value to our business AND meet the increasingly complex security challenges in this new era of cloud-distributed IT," said Brian Lillie, Chief Customer Officer and EVP Technology Services, Equinix (News - Alert). "CASB is a key solution in our company's cloud security stack, and Skyhigh's patented technologies give us the confidence to enforce cloud security and cloud governance at scale." The two new patents are representative of Skyhigh's significant investment in innovation across its current and future suite of products. Specifically:
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For more stories and to join the cloud security conversation, follow Skyhigh on The Cloud Security Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. About Skyhigh Networks Skyhigh Networks, the world's leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), enables enterprises to safely adopt SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud services, while meeting their security, compliance and governance requirements. With more than 600 enterprise customers globally, Skyhigh provides organizations the visibility and management for all their cloud services, including enforcement of data loss prevention policies; detecting and preventing internal and external threats; encrypting data with customer-controlled keys; and implementing access-control policies. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., Skyhigh Networks is backed by Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Thomvest Ventures, Tenaya Capital and other strategic investors. For more information, visit http://www.skyhighnetworks.com.
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