Web Security.cloud Services

Web Security.cloud Services- Features

• Multi-layered protection
• URL Filtering and Web Policy Enforcement
• Minimal Latency
• Comprehensive Reporting
• Roaming User Support

Web Security.cloud Services- Benefits

• Skeptic™ predictive technologies, combined with multiple commercial scanners help to defend your organization from both zero-hour and known web-borne threats, addressing them safely away from your network
• Cost-effective alternative to independently mounting a comparable defense without requiring the additional administrative and operational resource burdens of an on-premise solution.
• Enables clients to set up policy rules based on Website categories, content types, and overall usage levels for Web traffic requests to adhere to when submitted by a user.
• Aids in the creation, monitoring and enforcement of Web Acceptable Use policies
• Helps to protect corporate bandwidth and productivity by blocking or restricting downloads of certain file types and placing time and volume limits on Internet consumption.
• Average scan time of Web content occurs within 100 milliseconds and is backed by an SLA to provide confidence and set performance expectations
• Using a globally distributed, redundant, and scalable architecture, our service enables a consistent, secure browsing experience while minimizing delay to end users
• Dashboard, Summary, Detailed and Scheduled Reporting provide visibility, accountability and confidence in the service’s effectiveness
• Allows user browsing activities to be examined in order to fine tune policies for more productive Web use
• Scheduled reports simplify and reduce administrative burden by automatically delivering summary or detailed reports when you need them
• Can protect users and enforce policies and Web use limits regardless of how and where they are connecting to the Internet
• Directs the user to the optimal Symantec Web infrastructure access point for minimal latency

How Web Security.cloud Services works:

• Web traffic requests are routed through Symantec Hosted Services and checked against your acceptable use policy
• If no policy rule is triggered, the request passes through
• If a policy rule is triggered, the request is either logged and allowed to pass or access to the Web page is denied
• Web page requests are retrieved by Symantec before delivery to your network and are scanned for known and emerging Web threats
• New and converged malware threats are identified by Skeptic™, while known threats are identified by multiple malware signature engines
• When a threat is identified, access to the requested Web page is denied
• If no threat is identified, the page is delivered to the user

System Requirements

Web Security.cloud is a hosted service. To access the Web-based administration console, users need:

• Internet Explorer versions 6 or above
• Firefox versions 2 or above

The Smart Connect roaming user agent can be used with Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer (all versions).