Organizations initially deployed Web filtering solutions on
firewalls or Web proxies to reduce exposure to legal liabilities,
prevent loss in productivity and manage bandwidth use by
controlling access to various websites. Today, the Web presents
myriad security challenges to businesses - spyware, phishing scams,
malicious code, rootkits, worms, and more. These Web security risks
are important drivers for Web filtering solutions today.
The changing nature of Internet traffic, threats and business
challenges has necessitated a next-generation Web-filtering
solution for several reasons:
- Internet communications have evolved from point-to-point
channels (e.g., email) to real-time, presence-oriented
communications applications such as IM, P2P file-sharing, Skype,
and Web conferencing.
- Many of these applications use evasive methods to communicate
and often use the Web as their transport medium.
- With Web
2.0 and social networking sites, the browser has become a
medium for users to exchange information in real-time by
integrating these collaborative technologies, many of which deliver
applications.
- Since existing security infrastructure often allows Web traffic
without performing deep inspection, HTTP has become an effective
channel for these applications to circumvent company acceptable use
policies.
Available on Unified Security Gateway,
Actiance provides two industry-leading Web filtering databases -
Actiance WebFilter and Secure Computing's SmartFilter™ - operating
on an appliance platform designed to detect and interpret all
Internet activity with zero latency. Enterprises can manage
employee use of all Internet channels--including Web browsing, Web
applications and social networking sites--using unified policy
management to prevent inbound malware threats, minimize information
leakage, and ensure productive employee Internet use.
Actiance's Unified Security Gateway provides Web filtering and
more:
- Single point of policy enforcement and management for Web,
real-time Internet, and Web 2.0 application traffic
- Manage access to and use of applications within social
networking sites like Facebook, according to established acceptable
use policies
- Lower the risks from inbound threats and outbound data
leakage
- Meet employee needs without impacting productivity or
security
- Maintain regulatory compliance through logging and
archival
- Automated updates of new social networking sites, applications
and malware signatures to stay protected
- Industry-leading URL databases - Actiance WebFilter with over
21 million sites in 54 pre-defined categories and SmartFilter from
Secure Computing with over 7 million URLs in 73 pre-defined
categories
- Integration with Active Directory to enforce web access
policies at user and group levels using a single sign-on experience
for end users
- Custom policies based on location, groups, users, file
extensions and content types
- Malware (spyware, phishing, blended treats, etc.) prevention at
the gateway before it impacts the business
- Powerful reporting available on-box and off-box using
SmartReporter and other third-party reporting tools to generate
pre-defined and customized reports
Learn more about Unified Security Gateway,
Actiance's purpose-built solution that enables the safe and
productive use of Web in the enterprise.