Case Study: State of Missouri achieves cloud visibility and regulatory compliance with Skyhigh Networks

State of Missouri secures cloud usage and ensures regulatory compliance

The State of Missouri, which spans 14 agencies and about 40,000 end users, struggled with widespread shadow IT and limited visibility into cloud usage. Their existing content gateway could only detect malware and basic threats and couldn't distinguish regional risks, leaving the state exposed and challenged to meet complex regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, NIST and IRS 1075 while still supporting user productivity.

By deploying Skyhigh for Shadow IT, Missouri instantly discovered more than 2,500 unknown cloud services and used Skyhigh’s Cloud Registry and CloudTrust ratings to quickly assess risk. The solution enabled blocking of high‑risk services, just‑in‑time coaching to guide users to sanctioned tools, and machine‑learning–driven anomaly detection—resulting in measurable risk reduction, improved regulatory compliance, and cost avoidance from prevented breaches.

State of Missouri

Michael Roling

Chief Information Security Officer