| Secure Web Gateway |
The Internet has become a major source of infection for PCs, and the massive adoption
of Web applications, in addition to the popularity of blogs and social-networking sites,
has made this vector much harder to control.
Detecting and preventing malware infections will increasingly require a network gateway at the
Internet edge.
An SWG is a product that filters unwanted software or malware from user-initiated Web/Internet
traffic and enforces corporate and regulatory policy compliance. To achieve this goal, SWGs
must, at a minimum, include URL filtering, as well as malicious code detection and filtering.
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includes the categorization of known Web sites into groups to enable
comprehensive reporting as well as blocking some sites, for acceptable usage, productivity and
security risks. There is also an increasing requirement for dynamic risk analysis of uncategorized
sites and pages. Web reputation will be an area of differentiation as vendors invest in ways to
better identify and classify Web sites and domains.
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eliminates all malicious and potentially unwanted code from Web traffic.
The most-common malware detection techniques are signature-based detection of known
malware. However, as threats continue to evolve, we expect leading vendors to offer a cocktail of
non-signature-based malware detection techniques to detect and block unknown and moreevasive
threats.
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enable businesses to carefully manage adoption and use of
public Internet-based applications, such as IM, Internet telephony (for example, Skype),
multiplayer games, Web storage, Wikis, peer-to-peer, public VoIP, blogs, data-sharing portals,
Web backup, remote PC access, Web conferencing, chat and streaming media.
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