Symantec Web Gateway

Symantec Web Gateway 5.0

The Symantec company announced in July, 2011 availability of the new version of the product Symantec Web Gateway 5.0. This hardware and software system focused on corporate clients guarantees comprehensive protection of IT environments against a broad spectrum of the threats extended on a global network.

Product capabilities are not limited to simple filtering of the addresses URL. Thanks to proposed solution, corporate IT specialists will be able to set comprehensive control over all web traffic and to provide its reliable protection. Continuous monitoring of the entering and outbound traffic will allow the gateway to recognize timely the malware and to stop their work, to prevent leakage of confidential data and to block undesirable contents. Such approach not only will ensure safety of the crucial systems and data, but also guarantees the most productive work of staff of the organization.

The patent Symantec Insight technology capable to quickly estimate reliability of this or that website, applications or the file, on the basis of information provided by members of online community is the cornerstone of the new version of the solution Symantec Web Gateway. The "cloud" Insight technology analyzes the data arriving from millions of systems, thus, receiving data on the most relevant threats. Thanks to this modern development, Symantec Web Gateway copes with detection and blocking of new and poorly studied threats better, than any other modern web gateway.

Separate mentioning is deserved by close integration of the new version of Symantec Web Gateway 5.0 with the Symantec Data Loss Prevention system preventing leakage of confidential data out of limits of the organization. Clients will be able to perform careful monitoring of all information transferred via the Internet and to provide its protection in case of need. The new version of the gateway is capable to detect the important information transferred not only on open channels, but also within the safe SSL connections.

In view of uniqueness of each IT infrastructure and presence at each organization of set of specific requirements, developers of Symantec company tried to give to clients extremely flexible opportunities of solution deployment. The new version of the gateway Symantec Web Gateway can be deployed not only on the physical equipment, but also on the VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x servers in the form of the virtual device.

The solution Symantec Web Gateway 5.0 is available as a separate product and also enters as a part of a packet of Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition.