Web Security-as-a-Service

The Web is now the primary attack vector for stealthy, targeted malware. The rapid growth of spyware such as Trojan horses and adware shows how the malware threat has shifted its focus from the email inbox to the Web browser. Hackers are exploiting the vulnerabilities of an open and dynamic Web to quietly distribute their malware. Web malware infection from reputable Web sites is now a reality.

What is SaaS Web Security?

SaaS means ‘software as a service’. SaaS Web security is the provision of multi-tenant, purpose-built Web security over the Internet. SaaS Web security applications are typically based on a recurring subscription fee and the cost is directly related to the number of users.

All of the usual costs associated with maintaining Web security software (such as hardware maintenance, scheduled and unscheduled downtime, downloading security updates, running a database etc.) are assumed by the vendor instead of the customer. With SaaS Web security there is no hardware or software for you to maintain and no hidden charges. This approach to Web security offers the following benefits:

• Rapid deployment
• Global accessibility
• Easy scalability
• Low management overhead
• Low maintenance cost
• Built-in resilience and failover
• Ability to focus IT resources on core business objectives

ScanSafe is the pioneer of SaaS Web security, with a consistent track record of innovation and market vision. Our SaaS platform is designed specifically for Web traffic not email, with parallel processing architecture and built-in speed, resilience and scalability.

ScanSafe has greater visibility of Web traffic than premise-based solutions and we aggregate this real-time data across our customer base. This allows us to identify new threats more quickly and accurately and protect our customers in real-time, without them needing to download updates. With ScanSafe’s best-in-class Web security solutions - including Web malware scanning, URL filtering, and Anywhere+ , now is the perfect time to join the SaaS revolution.

Why Web Security-as-a-Service?

• Protect your confidential information and computing resources
• Ensure a productive and compliant workplace
• Maintain a high performance Web experience for end users
• Save up to 40% from total cost of ownership
• Focus IT resources on your ƒorganization’s core mission

Complete, Best-in-Class Solution:

ScanSafe Web security-as-a-service – including Web malware scanning, URL filtering, and IM control – is the only complete, best-in-class Web security solution available today. ScanSafe scans billions of Web requests in real-time, stops millions of malware, and protects thousands of the most demanding organizations around the world.

Web Malware Scanning stops Web spyware and viruses at the Internet level, before they can infiltrate your network and compromise or disable your computers. Web Malware Scanning includes inbound and outbound detection of new and known malware threats, including malware communications. Proactive detection employs reputation and behavior analyses and vast amounts of daily Web data. Signature-based detection utilizes multiple, industry-leading anti-malware engines with hourly and emergency signature updates, two-hour signature response times, and the largest global malware research laboratories and collection networks.

The Web Filtering service enables you to easily create, enforce, and monitor Web usage policies. It includes streamlined configuration through a graphical dashboard, real-time rules-based filters, and a best-in-class URL database. Create different access policies based on URL categories, content types, file types, schedules, and quotas to suit different areas of your organization. View comprehensive activity reporting, including forensic auditing by user, department, and organization.

ScanSafe IM Control enables you to control the rapidly growing use of public IM, such as AOL, Yahoo!, and Windows Live, in corporate networks. With IM Control, you can control and standardize your IM network; monitor, log, and audit IM use and generate customizable scheduled reports; and access compliance logging that integrates with your organization’s email archiving solutions.

Proactive Security:

ScanSafe’s Web security applications are built on Outbreak Intelligence (OI), a proprietary security platform that detects new and known malware threats. By leveraging its unique position at the Internet level and processing several terabytes of Web data each day, OI has unmatched visibility of global Web data to proactively identify zero-hour malware threats. OI uses multiple signature-based anti-malware scan engines, multiple reputation and behavior detection engines, and automated machine-learning parameter development to detect new malware and avoid false positives. This combination of multiple, correlated detection technologies, automated machine-learning heuristics, and the industry’s largest Web data set makes OI the most effective solution against new Web malware attacks.

ScanSafe also provides SearchAhead, the industry’s first real-time Web filtering early warning system. SearchAhead combines ScanSafe’s Web filtering and real-time Web malware scanning to educate users about malicious and prohibited Web pages. Organizations are therefore able to reduce acceptable use policy violations by 30% and keep Web malware away from their computers.

High Performance Service:

ScanSafe’s Internet service architecture ensures a fast, seamless Web experience for employees. It includes globally distributed data centers on four continents, parallel processing within the data centers, multiple high speed network providers, extensive redundancy, and 99.999% uptime, all backed by the most comprehensive SLA in the industry. Provision more users, offices, and countries on ScanSafe’s high performance Web security service by simply redirecting your Web traffic to ScanSafe’s upstream Internet service platform.

Centralized and Simplified Management:

ScanCenter is ScanSafe’s Web-based centralized administration and reporting console. It features real-time reporting of blocked malware and real-time policy enforcement. View Web security trends and data through at-a-glance graphical displays and detailed forensic audits. Manage granular policies for individuals and groups for a comprehensive range of URL categories, content types, and schedules.