Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Software

Secure Web Gateway

What is Secure Web Gateway Software?

Any software, appliance, or cloud-based service that protects corporate users and networks from web-based malware, controls employee behavior on the Internet, and helps prevent data loss.

Common Features

  • Mobile Device Protection
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Unified Management Interface
  • Bandwidth Utilization Management
  • URL Filtering
  • Malware Detection
  • Directory Integration
  • URL Categorization
  • Rule Based Policy Engine
  • Application Control
  • DLP Functionality
  • SSL Scanning
  • Sandboxing

Top Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Software

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8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Get advanced threat defense, advanced malware protection, application visibility and control, insightful reporting, and secure mobility. The Cisco Secure Web Appliance combines all of these forms of protection and more in a single solution.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Unique Features
  • Caring
Badge Winner
Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Hybrid SWG is a unique offering from Harmony SASE. It is the result of feedback from IT professionals across the industry about the limitations of existing SWG solutions and the pain points they create for them. It eliminates all the major drawbacks traditional cloud SWGs and on-prem appliance SWGs suffer from, and enables organizations to benefit from a higher level of security, improved compliance, better performance and simplified operations.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Enables Productivity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Advanced, cloud-enabled network security for anyone, anywhere, any device

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Security Protects
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Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Zscaler Web Security provides unmatched security, visibility and control, going beyond the basics of web content filtering.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Performance Enhancing

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Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10

InterScanTM Web Security is a software virtual appliance that combines application control with zero-day exploit detection, advanced anti-malware scanning, real-time web reputation, and flexible URL filtering to provide superior Internet threat protection.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Advanced URL Filtering is the industry’s first inline ML-powered web protection engine that stops unknown web-based attacks in real time to prevent patient zero.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

F5 Secure Web Gateway Services delivers unmatched insight into and control over inbound and outbound web traffic. Secure Web Gateway Services empowers you to take the necessary actions to ensure appropriate web access, and to keep your network and applications safe from malicious web-borne threats, while maintaining employee productivity.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Less Friendly Negotiation
WatchGuard Technologies

WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Gateway AntiVirus (Gateway AV) is a fully integrated security subscription for WatchGuard XTM appliances. It works in tandem with the application layer content inspection of the XTM to provide real-time protection against known viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, and rogueware.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Allot Communications

WebSafe Business

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Allot WebSafe Business enables you to provide effective and highly flexible Security as a Service to SMB (small and medium businesses) and enterprise customers whose applications are migrating to the cloud where they are accessed via the Internet.

Palo Alto Networks

Prisma SASE

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Prisma SASE is the secure foundation for agile, cloud-enabled organizations. Prisma SASE converges best-of-breed security with best-of-breed next-gen SD-WAN into the cloud-delivered platform. It consolidates multiple point products, including ZTNA, Cloud SWG, CASB, FWaaS, and SD-WAN, into a single integrated service, reducing network and security complexity while increasing organizational agility. Prisma SASE secures all apps used by your hybrid workforce, regardless of whether users are remote, mobile, or working from a branch office. Our proven cloud-delivered security services leverage ML-powered threat prevention.