Maximize network security by detecting and blocking web-borne threats

Detecting Next-Generation Threats

While the term "virus" is more prevalent and well-known than many other kinds of threats, the threat landscape has evolved and viruses are on the decline as a threat to network security. Malware as a whole has evolved, and companies must have the defenses in place to protect their networks from these next-generation malicious attacks.

Gartner recently stated "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.¹ In their report, one of Gartner's conclusions was that "Detecting Web-borne threats and minimizing their damage will increasingly require network-level interception.¹

The eSafe Secure Web Gateway provides thorough web browsing security in a scalable solution without sacrificing performance. eSafe's NitroInspection™ technology allows real-time inspection of web content without any significant impact on the user's web browsing experience.

Going Beyond URL Filtering

To secure your environment and protect against web-borne malicious threats, your security has to go beyond traditional URL-filtering. URL-filtering is a reactive security measure that only defends against known threats from known malicious sites. Your security needs to protect against a broader range of malicious web-borne threats and be able to identify and block even unknown threats.

In addition to detecting all standard viruses and spyware, and filtering URLs, eSafe can also enforce safe web browsing policies in an organization by:

• Stripping malicious and unsafe scripts (SmartScript Filtering™)
• Blocking all script viruses and exploits
• Blocking known HTML and HTTP exploits (XploitStopper™)
• Optionally stripping ActiveX tags
• Optionally allowing only predefined trusted ActiveX objects
• Optionally allowing only preinstalled trusted ActiveX objects
• Optionally stripping Java applets
• Optionally stripping cookies
• Optionally blocking HTML pages containing predefined keywords
• Optionally inspecting encrypted SSL Web site content
• ... and more

Protect Your Network

Simply renewing your licenses on an existing URL-filtering solution is not sufficient to defend against next-generation web-borne threats. Gartner recommends that you "Use URL-filtering renewal time as an opportunity to evaluate your company's broader Web gateway security needs.¹

¹ eSafe not only inspects downloadable files, but also provides full inspection of HTML content as well as scanning of all image files for known JPG and BMP format exploits. In addition, eSafe is the industry's most scalable web content security solution. It has built-in load balancing functionality, and it can be installed as a transparent bridge, router or proxy.