SWG
Secure Web Gateway
The SASE defense to stopping Internet threats.
Cloud adoption and mobility have significantly altered today’s application landscape. Data is no longer restricted to physical data centers centrally managed by an IT organization. Data is now distributed across various SaaS, public, and private cloud platforms making it difficult for organizations to get visibility and control.
In addition to the various locations where data is stored or in transit to and from, users have grown more mobile, accessing data and applications on-the-go on a multitude of devices. At the same time, workplace dynamics have also changed substantially with hybrid workforce being the norm in most organizations.
All these factors have led to a tremendous expansion of the network edge, in turn creating a large, distributed attack surface. With applications, data, users, and devices increasingly shifting off-premises, onto the web, conventional perimeter-based security model with the assumption of data and applications residing on-premises is no longer valid.
Malicious actors are well aware of these trends and they can use websites to distribute malware and other malicious code. In addition, users may be accessing web sites that may not be in compliance with company policies, risking company compliance.
Protecting users on-premises, home office, and on-the-go from today’s web-based attack vectors and ensuring that company compliance is enforced and maintained requires a new class of firewall that is integral to the cloud. It requires a firewall that delivers comprehensive and effective security with the best user experience for enterprise and cloud applications for users connecting from anywhere.
Versa’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) provides comprehensive set of features to protect its users and their devices from threats from the web-based Internet sources, while also enforcing corporate security policy: ensuring that every connection is secured.
Versa SWG is offered together with a wider scope of technologies by the Versa Secure Internet Access (VSIA) product offering to provide a comprehensive cloud delivered security solution to enterprise sites, home offices, and on-the-go users without compromising performance or enduser experience.
Ensuring Safe User and Device Access to the Internet
With Versa’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) set of capabilities provided from Versa Cloud Gateways, customers can achieve a comprehensive security solution that includes URL filtering, classifications, reputation checks, risk assessment and management, compliance check and access control mechanisms. When used together with malware protection, next-generation firewall, Domain Name System (DNS) security, multi-factor authentication, and the rest of capabilities provided within Versa Secure Internet Access (VSIA), Versa provides most effective security capabilities to Enterprise users.
Web Traffic Management
Versa SWG’s URL traffic management for millions of sites managed simply by categorizing them into 83 pre-defined classes based on type, risk and other factors. Built-in encrypted web traffic analysis for HTTPS flows and DNS Proxy and DNS Security to secure and manage DNS inquiries and resolutions. Rich set of routing protocols supported natively to enable traffic routing and management decisions.
Secure Proxy
Over 80% of the traffic on the Internet is based on HTTPS. SSL-TLS Proxy is used to terminate encrypted sessions to recognize FQDNs, to analyze HTTPS handshake details and to provide detailed security scans to ensure no vulnerability or malware hides within encrypted flows. Once decrypted, HTTPS flows will be managed at fine granular details using Versa’s policy engine. Versa SSL-TLS Proxy supports TLS1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 to provide comprehensive and effective web proxy coverage.
Versa’s SWG functions can be consumed in Forward and Reverse Proxy modes allowing our customers to secure their data in flexible ways.
Application Identification and Control
Versa’s built-in Application Identification capabilities help identify millions of cloud applications, in addition to 3600+ native applications or protocols. Continuously updated identification engine with new signatures provides full visibility, and control of applications and traffic with application segmentation and breakout at the gateway.
Identification of unencrypted and encrypted URLs, together with user and group level information, along with URL category, age, reputation, risk factor and other provides easy and effective means to manage traffic destined to many millions of websites.
Malicious Code Detection and Prevention
Versa SWG comes with built-in malicious code detection and prevention capabilities to protect its users from being infected by malicious web traffic, websites with vulnerabilities, Internetborne viruses, malware, and other cyberthreats, Such capabilities and more are available as part of the VSIA product offering, making it easy for our customers to purchase and deploy comprehensive and effective security solutions w/out worrying about piece-meal solutions which can be relatively easy to circumvent.
Company Compliance
Versa SWG ensures the implementation and enforcement of an Enterprise’s compliance standards to protect their confidential information from being exposed. This is especially critical in markets in which Enterprises must comply with industry specific regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX and others.
Versa Secure Web Gateway
Protecting your users, devices, and applications against web threats.
With Versa Secure Web Gateway, customers can achieve a comprehensive security solution that includes URL filtering, malware protection, next-generation firewall, Domain Name System (DNS) security, multi-factor authentication, and more.
Protect against threats. Ensure visibility and control over data. Reduce costs and complexity.
Versa SWG offers an intuitive, easy-to-use portal that provides organizations protection from malware and threats, instant insight for policy management, and reduces end-user friction.
Secure Connection Everywhere
Versa SWG best suits today’s heterogenous, distributed networks. Versa SWG provides secure, direct internet access to users regardless of their location. By leveraging shared threat intelligence, Versa SWG enforces dynamic security remediation depending on the risk and context.
Centralized Visibility and Control
Versa SWG includes an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-portal for provisioning, management, and monitoring of security, routing, and SD-WAN services. Versa provides a single-pane-of-glass to achieve centralized visibility and granular control over internal, inbound, and outbound traffic.
Simple, Easy-to-Use, and Cost-Effective
Versa SWG comes with a unified policy framework with one-touch deployment. This policy framework covers devices and applications independent of deployment and access, providing simple policy deployment, configuration, and management.
Assured User Experience
Versa SWG leverages the distributed system of Versa Cloud Gateways for optimized cloud connectivity to enable low latency and high-performance connections to popular cloud services. Versa SWG connects to multiple gateways based on enterprise policies and real-time network information to provide the best possible end-user experience.
How to Deploy Versa SASE
Versa SASE is available in an array of deployment options, allowing you to tailor the solution to your network environment.
On-Premises
Available as software to deploy in on-premises hardware including appliances, bare metal, hypervisors, or containers.
Cloud
Available as a service delivered via the cloud for networking, security, and analytics to thin branches and end users.
Blended
Available as a blended combination of SASE services via the cloud and on-premises for any location profile.
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