ScanSafe Web Security
Outsourced Web filtering, Web monitoring and Web Malware (Virus and Spyware) ProtectionScanSafe is a web filtering service which enables you to create, enforce and monitor Web usage policies. Layering real time rule-based filters with up-to-date and accurate categorization database, Web Filtering enforces your organization's acceptable usage policy, protecting you from the legal liabilities of inappropriate content, reducing bandwidth congestion and improving employee productivity.
As the amount of time spent browsing the Internet continues to rise, the problems associated with providing unmonitored and unregulated Internet access steadily increase. ScanSafe is fully managed and puts you in control of how your employees use the Internet. The service delivers best-of-breed filtering with streamlined configuration.
Web Filtering and Monitoring
- Easily create different access policies to suit different areas of your business using a visual dashboard.
- Create policies based on URL categories, content types and file types.
- Use flexible URL red lists and green lists to provide access to specific content, or block all.
- Enable recreational access at defined times of the day, or quotas by data transmitted.
- Customize message to user when access is denied.
- Leverage comprehensive activity reporting including Forensic Auditing by user, department or whole organization.
- Enforce HTTPS traffic policy for greater control while continuing to respect the privacy of end users
Web Malware Protection
- Outbreak IntelligenceTM heuristics engine
- Up-to-date protection from latest malware including phishing, adware and spyware
- Multiple Industry leading signature based virus engines
- Ability to specify allowed ad sponsored software from comprehensive list
- Customized alert messages, auditing and reporting
- Forensic audit of infected computers to improve detection and clean up rates
How ScanSafe Works
ScanSafe Web Security analyzes every Web request to determine if content is malicious, inappropriate or acceptable based on the defined security policy. This offers effective protection against threats including zero-day threats that would otherwise be successful.ScanSafe Web Security is powered by Outbreak IntelligenceTM which is comprimised of numerous correlated detection technologies, automated machine-learning heuristics, and multiple "scanlets". Outbreak Intelligence builds a detailed view of each Web request and the associated security risk to ensure that ScanSafe customers use the Web safely.
Outbreak Intelligence scans over 1 billion Web requests a day, in real-time, stopping millions of malware instances and protecting thousands of the most demanding organizations around the world. Outbreak Intelligence scanlets analyze all elements of a Web request including HTML, JavaScript, Flash and active scripts, among others, which when coupled with numerous Context scanlets, offers multiple indicators as to the security posture of each Web request.
