Advanced cloud and web security services to protect applications like Office 365

Moving to the cloud introduces new security and compliance risks, but it also enables tremendous new defensive strategies. Cloud-delivered network security adds flexibility and boosts performance, while protecting users with consistent threat prevention and data compliance policies—wherever they go.

Symantec Web Security Service delivers a broad set of advanced capabilities—including a secure web gateway (SWG), software defined perimeter, anti-virus scanning, sandboxing, web isolation, data loss prevention (DLP), and email security. As your users directly access the web, you can extend consistent policies that follow your sensitive data wherever it goes.

• Secure Access Cloud – Apply Zero Trust Access to your IaaS applications
• Web Isolation—Prevent websites from delivering zero-day malware to employees.
• Symantec SD-Cloud Connector—Simply connect branch office locations to the Symantec cloud.
• Symantec Endpoint Integrations – Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile (SEP Mobile) can be added for complete laptop and mobile device protection.

Consistently apply network security policies across web and cloud applications

Protect users with web and cloud security services that connect all devices to distributed, global data centers for reliable, high-performance, local service. Configure and enforce powerful web and cloud application access-control policies.

• Set policies based on website content-based classifications and threat risk levels.
• Classify URLs in 70 categories covering more than 55 languages.
• Authenticate users and enforce user, group, and location-based security controls.
• Control employee access to Shadow IT cloud apps (unsanctioned cloud applications).
• Enable application-level point-to-point connectivity, cloaking all resources from the end-user devices and the internet

Advanced proxy architecture delivers SWG and Advanced Threat Protection capabilities

Symantec Web Security Service protects your organization from cyber attacks using an advanced proxy architecture that terminates, inspects, and controls high volumes of web and cloud traffic, even when it’s SSL/TLS encrypted. Our proxy architecture combats advanced threats, secures your information, and protects your users wherever they go. It’s built to meet the challenges of the Cloud Generation.

• Advanced proxy architecture—Enforce granular threat inspection policies for encrypted web traffic and traffic from cloud apps such as Box and Office 365.
• Browsing threat prevention/web isolation—Use isolation to combat the latest generation of threats targeting users’ email and web browsing.
• File threat prevention—Block high-risk and advanced threats with multilayer file inspection and customizable sandboxing.
• Threat Risk Levels—Set web access policies based on a URL’s relative level of threat risk.

Get direct-to-net efficiency and improve end-user performance

Our advanced, cloud-delivered network security service provides simple, cost-effective, high-performance “direct-to-net” protection. Direct-to-net eliminates the resources needed to backhaul internet traffic to your corporate data centers. Built-in acceleration technologies, such as content peering and optimized connection scaling, further improve key operational metrics and enable you to give your users the performance they demand.

• Run on a global telco-grade network backbone monitored by third-party service providers.
• Get high performance with content peering with top cloud providers, TCP scaling, and more.
• Access the cloud directly with a single Symantec Endpoint agent.
• Manage your web and cloud security solution within one console and get policy migration tools to simplify your move to the cloud.

Quickly protect your users with integrated, cloud-delivered Web Security Service

Symantec provides simplified on-ramps to the Web Security Service, enabling your users to have secure web access wherever they are.

• SD-Cloud Connector, based on advanced SD-WAN technology, gets your branch connection up and running quickly, with no IT expertise required.
• Firewall and bandwidth control capabilities are included.
• Running Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) on your endpoints? Use the SEP agent to redirect traffic to the Web Security Service for network security policy enforcement.
• Web Security Service Agent is also available for businesses not using SEP, to securely direct mobile and laptop traffic to the Symantec cloud service.