Overview:
Anywhere+ is ScanSafe’s Web security-as-a-service for
real-time protection and policy enforcement for your roaming
employees. With Anywhere+ it is finally possible to protect
your roaming employees wherever they are working – at home,
at a client office, in an airport lounge or hotel hotspot.
The number of employees who work outside the traditional
office is rapidly increasing and perhaps surprisingly now
constitutes the majority for many businesses. According to
Gartner, 50-70% of the US workforce may now be classified as
roaming or remote workers. This trend, coupled with the need
for ‘always-on’ connectivity, means the network boundary is
now ‘elastic’ and the traditional fixed network perimeter is
becoming irrelevant.
Roaming employees now connect to the Internet
from a variety of locations - from their homes and
client offices to airport lounges and hotel
hotspots. This increased level of connectivity
allows employees to work regardless of location. The
clear benefits of employees working outside the
office do, however, come with increased risks due to
lower levels of security. As a result, cyber
criminals are now increasingly using malware to
target laptop users in order to gain access to
private and confidential information that can be
sold, in many cases, for a hug profit. Research
shows the laptop computers with business information
store an average of $524,000 worth of sensitive
data. This problem is magnified when machines that
are infected while remote will then spread tha
malware throughout the network when the employee
returns to the office - drastically increasing the
volume of private data that can be stolen.
Traditionally, It administrator have little or no
control over Web content accessed by roaming
employees. This situation is not helped by the fact
the roaming employees are five times more likely to
access inappropriate content on the road than in the
office. Even more worrying is that roaming employees
only use VPNs 17% of their browsing time. How are
they controlled and protected the other 83% of the
time?
Legacy solutions to these problems include
extending Web security software and appliances out
the endpoints through client agents and forcing all
Web traffic back through the on-premise solution.
This increases cost and management overheads and can
require backhauling, which results in latency and
increased bandwidth costs.
Why Anywhere+?
- Extends ScanSafe’s Web security-as-a-service to all your roaming employees not just your office workers - removing the risk of infected laptops coming back to the office LAN
- Applies your acceptable usage policy to all your roaming and remote employees
- Enhances privacy by automatically encrypting all Web traffic when the user connects to a public network
- Simplifies management with no endpoint client and updating
- Improves roaming users’ Web performance and reduces network bandwidth congestion - no need to backhaul traffic via a VPN
- Removes VPN as potential single point of failure for Internet access
A Security Perimeter Anywhere You Want It To Be
Anywhere+ is ScanSafe’s Web
security-as-a-service for real-time protection and
policy enforcement for your roaming employees. With
Anywhere+ it is finally possible to
protect your roaming employees wherever they are
working.
Unlike traditional approaches which rely on
software and appliances, Anywhere+ is
delivered as a service for complete security,
reduced complexity and simplified user management.
Anywhere+ removes the performance issues
and bandwidth congestion associated with backhauling
Web traffic over the corporate VPN, so your security
perimeter is now anywhere you want it to be.
Real-time Malware Scanning and Policy
Enforcement
The Anywhere+ service extends ScanSafe’s
award-winning Web malware scanning and Web filtering
services to your roaming and remote employees ensuring they
no longer act as an open bridge into your internal network.
It stops all threats in the cloud wherever the user.
All Web traffic flowing to ScanSafe’s upstream
datacenters is SSL-encrypted leading to improved security
over public networks.
With Anywhere+, log information is securely in
your hands, not on a file on the local PC. Reporting data is
automatically and continuously aggregated across internal
corporate users and roaming users.
Policy changes can be implemented immediately –
no need to wait for client software to try to update
itself on its own schedule. Policy changes are
active within seconds, globally
Transparent Operation and Silent Install
Anywhere+ is deployed through a lightweight
driver which forwards Web traffic to the ScanSafe
security scanning infrastructure. ScanSafe
datacenters are located all over the world from San
Francisco to Sydney ensuring that end-users always
have optimized performance as well as award-winning
security and filtering. Anywhere+ supports a silent
installation and is easily deployed using industry
standard mechanisms such as GPO or Microsoft SMS.
How It Work:
The Anywhere+ service extends ScanSafe’s
award-winning Web malware scanning and Web filtering
services to your roaming and remote employees
ensuring they no longer act as an open bridge into
your internal network. Stop all threats in the cloud
wherever the user.
A simple configuration change routes your traffic
through our upstream operations centers. Your
traffic is scanned in real time, enforcing usage
policies and blocking Web viruses, spyware, trojans,
phishing, IM threats and inappropriate content
before they reach your network. All Web traffic
flowing to our datacenters is SSL-encrypted leading
to improved security over public networks.
With Anywhere+, log information is securely in your hands,
not on a file on the local PC, Reporting data is
automatically and continuously aggregated across internal
corporate users and roaming users.
Policy changes can be implemented immediately – no need to
wait for client software to try to update itself on its own
schedule. Policy changes are active within seconds,
globally.
FAQs:
What savings will I get from
using Anywhere+?
Depending on how your network is set up,
you should see substantial bandwidth savings from
not having to backhaul traffic via a VPN. This is on
top of the time saved through cleaning up remote
user’s laptops and managing endpoint clients.
How is it priced?
Anywhere+ is available for
existing ScanSafe users as well as businesses
looking to add roaming security capabilities to
their existing Web security solution. It is an
add-on service. Pricing depends on service bundle
and volume but starts at $1.00 per user per month.
Customers pay for our regular office security
services (Web malware scanning, Web filtering) PLUS
an additional monthly per user fee for the number of
outside users with the additional Anywhere+ security
service.
I am currently happy with my
existing security solution for my office workers but
would like to add Anywhere+ just for my
roaming users. Is that possible?
Yes, Anywhere+ can be bought separately.
It is also very easy to add the remaining office
workers at a later date.
How can I evaluate
Anywhere+?
Click on the “free evaluation” link, fill out your
details and a member of Anywhere+ team
will contact you shortly after to set up a free 30
day evaluation. There is no obligation to buy and no
cost.
If I protect my users with
Anywhere+ does it mean I can remove my
desktop AV?
No. ScanSafe’s services protect unencrypted Web
traffic only. Any other method of entry onto a
laptop, for example by email, USB stick or network
share are not protected, hence users still need
local malware detection.
Does my VPN have to be in
split or full tunnel mode?
Anywhere+ requires you deploy
your VPN in split tunnel mode. All external Web
traffic (both HTTP and HTTPS) should be allowed to
go directly to the internet (where Anywhere+
will redirect it to the ScanSafe scanning
infrastructure and apply the correct policies).
What VPNs does Anywhere+
work with?
Anywhere+ works with all major VPNs
including:
- Aventail
- Cisco
- Checkpoint
- Juniper
- Microsoft
- Nortel
- Watchguard
How is Anywhere+
deployed to my end-users?
Anywhere+ is a single .MSI
(Microsoft Standard Installer) file. It supports a
silent installation and is supported by just about
every software distribution mechanism available.
Can my users disable
Anywhere+?
Anywhere+ is tamper-resistant. Without knowing the
password for the service the user cannot disable the
service.
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