Web Protection Appliances

Secure web gateway protection made easy

Our award-winning Secure Web Gateway appliances make web protection easy. They are quick to setup, simple to manage and make policy administration a snap, even for non-technical users.

  • Proven web protection – to block even the most advanced web threats
  • Compliance and productivity – with active policy enforcement for every situation and instant reporting visibility
  • Coverage of your blind spots – including automatic proxy blocking, encrypted traffic scanning, and call home monitoring
  • Management made easy – our award-winning web-console makes administration easy with three-clicks-to-anywhere and policy wizards
  • Easy offsite protection – if you choose to combine one of our web appliances with our Endpoint, you can protect users everywhere

They come in a full range of models to fit your organization perfectly. It's also available as a VMware Virtual Appliance so you can realize the benefits of your virtualization infrastructure and save on hardware.

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Features:

You get full-featured web protection at your network gateway that’s simple to deploy and easy to manage:

Powerful web protection

  • Our web malware detection works to block the most advanced threats
  • We use unique technology that can identify new threats right away
  • We’ve got you covered from anonymizing proxy abuse, encrypted traffic and malware attempting to call home
  • We scan all web traffic—without impacting performance

Compliance and productivity at your fingertips

  • Control billions of sites across dozens of categories with just a few clicks
  • Trust your download controls to our true-file-type detection
  • Get a handle on social networking, Web 2.0 applications and keep a lid on data when it comes to blogs, forums and webmail
  • Account for user activity with rich reporting and our real-time dashboard

Support mobile devices, offsite users and more

  • Provide authenticated access to the web for iPads and other mobile devices
  • Maintain user-based policy and reporting on shared systems with captive portal sign-ins and automatic time-outs
  • Offer a special guest access policy and enable critical web applications to work unauthenticated
  • Combine our integrated Endpoint to protect your road warriors on the web

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Deployment and management made easy

  • Be up and running in minutes with our helpful setup wizard
  • You get an on-premise appliance with a managed-service experience
  • Never worry about patches, updates or upgrades again

We’ve got your back

  • SophosLabs keeps you updated with their latest research
  • We’ll even monitor your appliance remotely
  • You get our local support too—anytime you need it

Get our web and endpoint security all in one

The best web protection everywhere users go has never been more affordable.

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