Security News > 2022 > March > Skyhigh Security rises from McAfee-FireEye’s SSE

Skyhigh Security, formed from the Secure Service Edge pieces of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, today announced its name and data-guarding portfolio.

CEO Gee Rittenhouse, who led McAfee Enterprise Cloud and is a former Cisco security executive, said Skyhigh aims to shift practitioners' focus from granting or blocking network access to resources, to fine-grain monitoring and protection of applications and data even after people have logged in.

A quick refresher on how Skyhigh came to be: early last year private equity firm Symphony Technology Group acquired McAfee's enterprise security business for $4bn, and a few months later bought FireEye's security products business for $1.2bn. Then in January, this combined McAfee Enterprise-FireEye outfit renamed itself Trellix, and rolled out an extended detection and response platform.

In addition to the combined McAfee-FireEye SSE pieces, the portfolio includes technology from McAfee's earlier acquisitions, including Skyhigh Networks, Light Point Security, NanoSec, and Secure Computing.

SSE encompasses a set of service services that allow enterprises to adopt a secure access service edge architecture - SSE is basically SASE without the networking component - and Skyhigh faces stiff competition from the likes of Zscaler and Netskope.

Rittenhouse says Skyhigh's approach is unique in that it is "Data aware," and he cites Gartner's accolades in its SSE Magic Quadrant for the former McAfee platform's "Completeness of vision." The other two aforementioned vendors ranked higher in their "Ability to execute."

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