By America Garcia - Product Marketing Manager, Skyhigh Security
February 18, 2025 4 Minute Read
It’s no secret that enterprises across industries have embraced cloud-first strategies over the past few years. But now, many are starting to re-evaluate those cloud strategies. A new trend is emerging, known as cloud repatriation, where enterprises are considering shifting workloads and data back from the public cloud to on-premises or hybrid environments.
Why would an enterprise move, in what may appear to be, a backwards direction with their cloud security journey? In this blog we’ll look at the reasons behind reverse migrations, how hybrid environments offer a strategic solution, and the tools that enable seamless security.
For years, enterprises migrated their workloads to the cloud, enticed by the potential for lower costs, scalability, and flexibility. But now, some enterprises are reassessing the long-term benefits and are shifting away from a full cloud strategy.
The catalyst for this reverse migration is typically one or a combination of the following reasons:
This shift doesn’t mean enterprises are abandoning the cloud entirely. Instead, they’re rethinking their cloud strategy to better balance between on-premises and cloud resources, and engaging in reverse migrations, finding a beneficial middle ground with hybrid environments.
By adopting hybrid cloud models that combine the benefits of both on-premises and cloud environments, enterprises can store sensitive data and mission-critical applications on-premises, while benefiting from the cloud for less sensitive workloads and scalability.
More specifically, as enterprises reverse migrate and adopt hybrid architectures, ensuring secure and seamless connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments is critical. Traditional secure web gateways (SWG) were designed to provide secure access to the internet, enforce policies, and protect users from malicious threats. However, as enterprises move towards hybrid environments, they need solutions that offer more flexibility than ever before.
While traditional SWGs focus primarily on either on-premises or cloud-based environments, they often struggle to adapt to hybrid architectures and lack unified visibility – leading to fragmented security policies and blind spots across environments.
This is where a solution like Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway (SWG) for Hybrid plays a pivotal role. Skyhigh SWG delivers a unified approach to securing data across multiple environments, offering enterprises the ability to monitor, control, and secure internet traffic across both cloud and on-premises infrastructures.
Skyhigh SWG provides deep visibility into user activity, applies consistent security policies across environments, and helps detect and prevent known and zero-day threats in real-time. Other benefits of Skyhigh SWG for hybrid environments include:
Whether it’s a reverse migration, cloud repatriation, or a move to hybrid – enterprises are seeking a more balanced approach to securing the access and use of their data. With the right security tools, it’s possible to combine on-premises and cloud security for optimal performance, threat protection, visibility and control.
And whether you are securing data only on-premises, or are requiring complete visibility and control of the cloud, or are somewhere in between in hybrid mode – only Skyhigh Security meets you where you are and elevates your security to new heights.
For more information about Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway, visit skyhighsecurity.com/swg or check out this interactive demo.
With over 6 years of cybersecurity experience, America is a Product Marketing Manager at Skyhigh Security. In this role, America is responsible for the positioning, go-to-market planning, and campaign execution of the Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway and Skyhigh Private Access product lines. America is passionate about simplifying the complexities of powerful new cloud technologies for diverse audiences, and is dedicated to connecting security solutions with customers’ current challenges and future needs.
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