ScanSafe
ScanSafe is the largest global provider of Web Security-as-a-Service, ensuring a safe and productive Internet environment for businesses. ScanSafe solutions keep viruses and spyware off corporate networks and allow organizations to control and secure the use of the Web and instant messaging. As a fully managed service, ScanSafe's solutions require no hardware, upfront capital costs or maintenance and provide unparalleled real-time threat protection. Powered by its proactive, multilayered Outbreak Intelligence™ & threat detection technology, ScanSafe scans more than 7 billion Web requests per month and blocks 1 billion threats each year for customers in over 45 countries.
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 Web Security Service
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, IM control, and Anywhere+, now is the perfect time to join the SaaS revolution.
- 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
The Internet today has evolved significantly from what it once was. Thanks to the dynamic nature of Web 2.0 applications and user-contributed content, it grows bigger by the minute. While most malware in the past was distributed via email, more recently the Web has been the primary attack vector used by malware authors to distribute malicious code.
- Protect your network and your staff from undesirable Web content
- Drive productivity by limiting time spent on recreational surfing
- Optimize network resources by reducing bandwidth congestion
- Monitor online activity with comprehensive reporting
- Ensure confidentiality by masking your usage to sites that collect information
Web Filtering is more than just making sure employees aren't wasting time. It's about making sure they don't put the organization at risk.
- Control- Customizable content, application, and user management
- Compliance- Full logging and reporting
Instant Messaging (IM) applications have become a valuable tool for communication across organizations. When IM goes unmanaged it can lead to malware infections and data leakage in the form of messages and file attachments.
ScanSafe IM Control is the world's first integrated Web and IM security service designed with a defense-in-depth approach. With a simple configuration, change all outbound and inbound IM traffic is managed for compliance, and productivity threats.
- 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