ScanSafe Web Malware Scanning

Overview:

As the Internet transforms from a static resource to a utility platform enabling two-way communications, malicious threats have increased in volume and shifted their focus toward the Web. Hackers are exploiting the vulnerabilities of an open and dynamic Web to distribute their malware rather than creating their own malicious websites. Web malware infection from reputable websites that have been compromised is now not only a relaity, but is now the  preferred route to infect victims. This change has made traditional methods of control such as anti-virus less effective and requires an alternative approach to security.

SaaS Web Security

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Web Security, the award-winning solution from ScanSafe, offers protection for organizations of all sizes against known and zero-day malware attacks. Enabled in-the-cloud, ScanSafe Web Security enhances security while enabling cost savings of up to 40% by eliminating the need to purchase, deploy and maintain hardware required fro on-premise solutions.

ScanSafe Web Security allows organizations to build a granular global policy for all Web traffic, including SSL encrypted communications. Security policy can be created based on categories, content, file types, schedules, and quotas to suit your organization. Coupled with this, integrated outbound policy ensures that confidential data, such as customer details or credit card numbers, does not leave the network.

ScanSafe Web Security analyzes every Web request to determine if contents is malicious, inappropriate or acceptable based on the defined security policy. This offers effective protection against threats including zero-day threats that would otherwise be successful.

ScanSafe Web Security is powered by Outbreak Intelligence which comprises of numerous correlated detection technologies, automated machine-learning heuristics, and multiple "scanlets" Outbreak Intelligence builds a detailed view of each Web request and the associated security risk to ensure that ScanSafe customers use the Web safely.

Why Web Malware Scanning?

• Proactive blocking of Web malware programs before they reach your network
• Protection from zero-hour threats
• Reduce patching and updates
• Eliminate downtime and remediation of infected desktops

Outbreak Intelligence - Protection from zero-day threats

Outbreak Intelligence scanlets analyze all elements of a Web request including HTML, JavaScript, Flash and active scripts, among others, which when coupled with numberous Context scanlest, feeds into the Meta Scanner, which is the ultimate decision maker in whether a web request is acceptable or not.

Outbreak Intelligence scans over 1 billion Web requests a day, in rel-time, stopping millions of malware instances and protecting thousands of the most demanding organizations around the world. This scale of visibility into real Internet traffic has created the largest data set of Web usage in the world which enables SxanSafe to offer benefits of scale to our costomers - the ability for increased analysis and detection of malware before other security vendors.

This makes Outbreak Intelligence the most effective solution against new Web malware attacks.

Centralized Management & Reporting

ScanSafe Web Security is managed through an intuitive web-based interface, ScanCenter, which integrates all management and reporting capabilities. Through ScanCenter, a global web security policy can be created and enforced across the organization, even down the group or user level and any edits to the policy are rolled-out in real-time.

ScanCenter offers reporting with overview data, ongoing trending and forensic audits.

High Performance Service

The architecture on which ScanSafe Web Security is delivered ensures a fast, Seamless, secure Web experience for all users. Built using globally distributed datacenters, highly parallel processing multiple high speed network providers and extensive redundancy, the ScanSafe SaaS platform is backed by the most comprehensive SLA in the industry with 99.999% uptime assurance.

Complete Protection From Remote Workers

As well as protecting end users that reside within corporate offices, remote workers can be protected to the same level security using Anywhere+, whether they are working from home, from a hotel or even from a coffee shop Anywhere+ automatically redirects users to the closest datacenter, ensuring the performance is always optimized.

Features:

Summary of Web Malware Scanning Features

• Powered by proprietary Outbreak Intelligence Web security platform
   
• Multiple best-in-class anti-malware scan engines to detect all known spyware and viruses
   
• Multiple heuristic engines that analyze the industry's largest Web data set for URL reputation, traffic behavior, code behavior, and code reputation to detect unknown malware
   
• No maintenance - automatic, frequent signature and heuristic updates
   
• Inbound and outbound Web traffic (HTTP, HTTPS and FTP-over-HTTP) inspected for malware and malware communications
   
• Real-time scanning of Web traffic without latency for thousands of organizations around the world.
   
• No patching, continuous AV signature updates
   
• Comprehensive reporting with a variety of preset scheduled and summary reports

How It Work:

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Documentation:

Download the ScanSafe Web Malware Scanning Datasheet (PDF).