Application Control

Coverage for over 5,000 Web 2.0 Applications

Today, the online landscape is alive with participation and collaboration. In addition to Web 2.0 applications like IM, Web conferencing, VoIP, blogs, and thousands of social networking sites are available to anyone with a browser.

Left unsecured and unmanaged, widespread use of these Web 2.0 applications can:

  • Create holes for information leakage, resulting in the loss of confidential information
  • Expose organizations to legal liabilities and financial penalties from compliance breaches
  • Compromise network security from malware spread through real-time channels
  • Increase help desk calls and support costs
  • Cause network bandwidth overload with file sharing

Actiance's Unified Security Gateway (USG) the only Secure Web Gateway to combine feature and content controls of social networks alongside the monitoring, management and security of Web 2.0 applications, such as instant messaging and social networks, with URL filtering, anti-malware and Web anti-virus protection.

USG enables organizations to set up custom policies across multiple communications modalities - from IM, peer to peer networks, social networking applications and Web traffic.  Customizable reporting capabilities provide for detailed analysis on employee Web browsing and application usage by time spent, data downloaded and instant messaging content transferred.

Learn more about Unified Security Gateway.

For in-depth research on more than 5,000 Web 2.0 applications plus the plethora of social networking widgets, visit applicationsguide.com.