Skyflow
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What is Skyflow?
Skyflow is a zero-trust data privacy vault that isolates, protects, and governs sensitive customer data including PII, PCI, and PHI. The platform uses patented polymorphic encryption and tokenization to secure data at rest, in transit, in storage, and in use without ever decrypting it. Companies can detect and protect sensitive data across structured and unstructured formats (audio, video, text) throughout their entire tech stack, from systems of record to analytical platforms and applications.
Key features include data residency support without adding instances, secure analytics that allow querying PII without decryption, fine-grained column- and row-level access control, context-based access policies, BYOK and BYOKMS capabilities, configurable vault schema, and LLM privacy/security for training models without sensitive data. Skyflow Elements provides client-side SDKs for JavaScript, iOS, and Android to securely collect and tokenize data from the frontend. The platform supports GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, PIPL, BDSG, Schrems II, and other compliance requirements.
Skyflow is designed for developers and enterprises in fintech, healthcare, retail, and travel industries. It helps companies meet data localization requirements, eliminate data sprawl across cloud services like AWS RDS, Redshift, and DynamoDB, protect against data breaches, and deploy AI applications safely. CTOs from companies like GoodRx, Nomi Health, and Scalapay use Skyflow to achieve compliance in weeks rather than months.
Skyflow pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Skyflow uses sales-led pricing with no public tiers; every call-to-action goes to a sales contact form. There is no free plan or free trial available. For custom pricing and annual commitments, customers must contact [email protected]. On AWS Marketplace, the Developer/Startup Vault option is $500/month for secure storage and tokenization via API with a 1-month contract option. The platform emphasizes cost-effectiveness by replacing multiple point solutions, with one customer reporting 67% decrease in total cost of ownership.
Skyflow pros
- Zero-trust vault architecture isolates sensitive data
- Patented polymorphic encryption for optimal security
- Data remains encrypted at rest, in transit, and in memory
- Run analytics queries on PII without decryption
- Deploy in hours to weeks instead of months
- Data residency support in 100+ countries without extra instances
- Fine-grained column- and row-level access control
- Unlimited API calls included in platform
- Client-side SDKs for JavaScript, iOS, and Android
- Pre-built integrations with Alloy, Experian, and Visa
- Removes infrastructure from compliance scope
- Format-preserving tokens maintain data usability
- BYOK and BYOKMS supported for key management
- Secure LLM training without exposing PII
- Comprehensive SQL-queryable audit trail for compliance
- Replaces multiple pricey point solutions with one platform
- Configurable vault schema for custom data types
- Context-based access control by job role and location
Skyflow cons
- No free tier or free plan available
- Sales-led pricing with no public pricing tiers
- Custom pricing requires annual commitment contact
- Developer/Startup Vault costs $500/month minimum
- Primarily aimed at enterprise customers
- Email-only support at [email protected]
- Requires JWT bearer token or API key for authentication
- Learning curve for polymorphic encryption concepts
Frequently asked questions about Skyflow
What is a data privacy vault?
A data privacy vault is a centralized secure environment that isolates, protects, and governs sensitive data using zero-trust architecture. Skyflow's vault stores PII, PCI, and PHI encrypted at rest, in transit, and in memory, replacing sensitive data with format-preserving tokens in your infrastructure while maintaining data usability for workflows and analytics.
How does polymorphic encryption work?
Skyflow's patented polymorphic encryption utilizes multiple encryption and tokenization techniques that provide optimal security, fast performance, and high levels of safe data usability. It keeps data encrypted while allowing operations like analytics queries without decryption, using format-preserving tokens that maintain data structure.
What compliance standards does Skyflow support?
Skyflow helps companies achieve compliance with GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, PIPL, BDSG, Schrems II, DPDP Act, LGPD, PDPA, DCIA, and other data privacy regulations. The platform automatically logs every action providing comprehensive audit trails, and isolates regulated data to de-scope infrastructure from compliance requirements.
How does data residency work with Skyflow?
Skyflow can host vaults anywhere in the world including the United States, Europe, China, India, South America, South Africa, the Middle East, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia. You create regional vaults to store data in compliance with local regulations like GDPR, PIPL, and DPDP. PII is isolated and stored regionally in tokenized format, never leaving the country, without requiring additional infrastructure instances.
What is Skyflow Elements?
Skyflow Elements are embeddable client-side UI components that help collect sensitive data securely from the frontend without exposing your app to sensitive data. They handle tokenization automatically and help with PCI compliance and data privacy regulation compliance. Client-side SDKs are available for JavaScript, iOS, and Android.
Can I run analytics on encrypted data?
Yes, Skyflow supports always-encrypted analytics that allow you to query PII data without decrypting it. You can analyze customer behavior or clinical trial data and produce masked datasets while the data remains encrypted. Access data in Snowflake based on your vault's region using Skyflow APIs as a secure gateway.
How does Skyflow protect AI and LLM workloads?
Skyflow enables secure AI deployment by allowing you to build and deploy agents, models, and MCP servers using real customer data without leaking PII. The platform controls data access at runtime with dynamic access controls based on job role and field-level data governance. You can train LLM models without ever decrypting sensitive data and set access controls to ensure LLM responses never contain information someone in a certain role shouldn't see.
What access control options does Skyflow provide?
Skyflow provides fine-grained access control with column- and row-level access in privacy-safe formats, restriction by IP address, context-based access control, and support for RBAC, ABAC, and PBAC policies. You can grant any team the PII they need to serve customers without breaking data privacy, with contextual awareness to restrict access based on user geographic location.
How long does it take to implement Skyflow?
Companies can run on Skyflow in just hours rather than the months it would take to build similar data privacy rigor in-house. Customers report getting up and running in under a month, with some deploying in less than three weeks. One CTO noted it would take 3 engineers 6-12 months to build the basics internally plus 2 engineers to maintain it.
What industries use Skyflow?
Skyflow customers span verticals including fintech, healthcare, retail, and travel. Fintech companies use it for PCI-compliant payments and card issuance, healthcare organizations for PHI protection and clinical trial data, retail for customer PII protection, and travel companies for data residency compliance when expanding to new geos. Companies like GoodRx, Nomi Health, Scalapay, and ServiceNow use Skyflow.