Skyhigh Hybrid Mesh Secure Service Edge (SSE)
Work is hybrid. Your security should be too.
Work moved back into offices, data moved into AI tools, and workloads are being pulled back on premises. You need a single policy, enforced in the cloud or on your premises, to follow all three.
- #1in the Advanced SSE use case, Gartner Critical Capabilities 2026
- 3,000+global customers
- 80%of top global banks
- 25%of the Fortune 500
Why Hybrid
Enforce security where the work actually happens
Return to office mandates, AI adoption, and cloud repatriation have changed where work happens. Cloud-only enforcement now sends local traffic on a round trip it no longer needs.
2X
Excess Spending To Protect Office Workers
74% of employees are working in the office a few days a week. Protect them locally and cut security OPEX costs by up to 50%*
Source: Gallup Hybrid Work Indicator, May 2026.
1 in 6
Your data is moving into AI
1 in 6 employee AI prompts include sensitive information. Cloud-only enforcement stops at the perimeter, leaving sensitive data vulnerable during local AI interactions across your internal network.
Source: Gartner, Cybersecurity Threat: AI Application Compromise, 2026.
50%
Digital Sovereignty needs are on the rise
50% of multinationals, including more than 75% of non-US multinationals, will have digital sovereignty by 2028.
Fair Economics
How Hybrid Mesh SSE Reduces Web Security & SSE OPEX
With cloud-only architectures all traffic travels to the cloud, including local users accessing local applications 2 floors away. You are paying double when you could pay a lower cost to inspect that traffic locally.
Local Security Costs Less
Local inspection and enforcement means less traffic going to the cloud. At Skyhigh we reward customers who process their traffic locally.
Location-Aware Licensing
Uniquely, Skyhigh uses location-aware licensing to determine where inspection is done locally vs. in the cloud. Local inspection incurs less cost, leading to up to 50% Web security and SSE OPEX savings.*
Cut Costs Without the Compromise
Skyhigh Security is ranked #1 in the Advanced SSE use case in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Security Service Edge, 2026.
How It Works
One policy. The right enforcement point for every session.
Cloud-delivered SSE continues to serve remote users and sanctioned SaaS. Hybrid Mesh SSE extends it, enforcing locally where your users, private applications, AI, and data already sit.
Pay fairly for what you use
Cloud for remote users and sanctioned SaaS, on premises for campus, data center, and regulated traffic. Each session takes the path that makes architectural, operational, and economic sense.
One SSE Policy Mesh
Use Policy-as-Code to author flexible Hybrid Mesh policies once, apply across all on-premises, remote and cloud enforcement points immediately.
See everything
Activity, policy, and risk reporting run across both enforcement planes, so local enforcement adds no blind spot and no second console to check.
Fuel Innovation, Not Outdated Security
We map where your traffic starts and where it is inspected today. Discover how optimizing your enforcement points can redirect wasted cloud spend back into your growth projects.
Outcomes
Optimize Costs. Enforce Zero Trust Everywhere. Ensure Digital Sovereignty.
01 · Fair Economics
Adaptable Architecture for Fair, Flexible Economics
The challenge
Organizations are paying a cloud tax, inspecting local traffic at cloud rates. There is a better way: local security costs less. Use your local networks to reduce cloud costs.
- One Policy, One Console, Everywhere. Consolidate cloud and on-premises security stacks under centralized policy management. Apply web, Zero Trust, and data security policies across all enforcement points in seconds.
- Pay for where work happens. A location-based subscription charges only for current usage, so a user enforced locally is not charged for more expensive cloud inspection services too.
- Up to 50% lower OPEX. Organizations with meaningful in-office traffic can target up to 50% lower web security and SSE OPEX versus a cloud-only architecture.
02 · Zero Trust Everywhere
Zero Trust Where AI Work Happens
The challenge
Zero Trust decisions for people in your buildings are still made in a distant cloud. AI moved in house, so prompts and private models now sit on the same network as the users, while the controls sit a round trip away.
- Zero Trust at the site. Private app access is brokered on the Secure Service Gateway, so in-network users get a local decision at LAN speed.
- Controls close to the interaction. Secure Browser Controls enforce natively on the appliance, governing the browser session where AI work happens.
- Zero Trust everywhere. One policy covers in-office, remote, and unmanaged devices, including east-west traffic a cloud-only path never sees.
03 · Digital Sovereignty
Local Control and Resilience
The challenge
Over 50% of multinationals face strict digital sovereignty mandates. Yet regulated traffic still leaves the premises to be inspected, on infrastructure someone else operates. And when the cloud path drops, a site chooses between stopping work and stopping inspection.
- Processing you control. Inspection and logging run on your own gateway, so regulated traffic stays on the premises where it was created.
- Enforcement through disruption. When the cloud path is interrupted, the gateway keeps applying policy at the site.
- Residency is not sovereignty. Residency is which country processing happened in. Sovereignty is whose infrastructure it ran on.
Industry Recognition
Uncompromised Capability, Independently Validated
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Gartner® Critical Capabilities, 2026
#1 in the Advanced SSE use case
Skyhigh SSE ranked #1 in the Advanced SSE use case with a score of 4.2 out of 5 in the 2026 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Service Edge.
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Info-Tech Research Group, 2025
Secure Web Gateway Champion
Real users gave Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway a Composite Score of 8.1/10, earning recognition as an Info-Tech 2025 Champion.
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KuppingerCole
Market Leader
Recognized by KuppingerCole as a Market Leader in SaaS Security and AI Governance.
Resources
Go Deeper: Learn More About The Hybrid Mesh Security Advantage
Read MoreData SheetSymantec Edge SWG Modernization Brief
Read MoreBlogWork is Hybrid. Why Are You Paying Double for a Cloud Tax on the Office?
Read MoreSolutionCut Web Security & SSE OPEX with Hybrid Mesh SSE
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Data Sovereignty & Resilient SSE Solutions
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Extend Zero Trust Inside the Office
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Read MoreVideoSkyhigh DSPM Video Demo
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Read MoreData SheetSkyhigh Client & Mobile Client
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Read MoreSolution BriefOperationalizing DSPM: Five real-world use cases for data-centric security
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Read MoreWebinarClosing the Browser Security Gap: Hidden AI Cybersecurity Risks
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Read MoreWhite PaperTurning Data Visibility into Enterprise Protection
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Read MoreWebinarWork Is Hybrid. Why Isn’t Your Security?
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Read MoreSolution BriefSkyhigh Secure Browser Controls: In-Session Data Protection for Every Browser and Device
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Read MoreSolution BriefSkyhigh Secure Browser Controls Buyer’s Guide
Next Steps
Free Up Budget for What Matters Next
Book your custom security assessment to see how enforcing security where work actually happens can modernize your architecture and unlock capital for innovation.
* Potential savings vary by traffic, deployment, and commercial assumptions, and are modelled against your own in-office and remote user split. Source: Skyhigh location-based licensing model.
Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Security Service Edge, Thomas Lintemuth, Theo de Feligonde, John Watts, Jonathan Forest, 3 August 2026. Gartner is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
