Symantec ProxySG: Raise and Manage Your Network Security

Symantec ProxySG - Improve and Manage Your Network Security

In today's rapidly digitalizing world, data security and internet traffic management matter enormously to companies and institutions. Symantec ProxySG is a powerful security proxy solution designed to meet exactly those needs.

Symantec ProxySG is a security proxy server used to improve an organization's network security and optimize its internet traffic. The appliance monitors, filters, routes and accelerates network traffic, offering firewall, content filter, security gateway and accelerator capabilities.

ProxySG provides optional cloud intelligence and real-time web content ratings to keep your organization protected against the latest threats. Symantec's cloud-based Global Intelligence Network feeds analytics engines with valuable, up-to-date information about the newest risks in order to accelerate responses to web-based threats. To keep ProxySG current, more than a billion new web requests a day are collected and analysed from over 15,000 enterprise customers and millions of end users. As a result, Symantec typically blocks more than four million previously unseen or uncategorized threats a day. New defences can also be added seamlessly to the Global Intelligence Network to scale the depth of protection when needed.

ProxySG works seamlessly with best-of-breed technologies including anti-malware, antivirus (AV), blacklist and whitelist engines from a range of vendors, as well as the static code analysis, sandboxing and sandbox brokering found in Symantec Content Analysis. ProxySG can securely enable data loss prevention with certified DLP partners over S-ICAP or standard ICAP.

How does it work?

Symantec ProxySG analyses, inspects and routes inbound and outbound internet traffic. The appliance controls all traffic entering and leaving the network and performs the following functions:

Firewall: Symantec ProxySG provides protection against malicious content. It detects and blocks threats such as viruses, malware and phishing attacks.

Content filter: used to block websites or content that do not comply with company policy. This filtering capability matters both for improving employee productivity and for protecting network resources.

Secure internet gateway: Symantec ProxySG can encrypt and decrypt SSL/TLS traffic, which makes it possible to analyse encrypted traffic and block malicious content.

Accelerator: Symantec ProxySG uses caching and compression techniques to load web pages faster and optimize internet traffic.

Why Symantec ProxySG?

Performance optimization: Symantec ProxySG is designed to accelerate internet traffic and use network resources more efficiently.

SSL/TLS monitoring and control: the ability to decrypt encrypted traffic is critically important from a security standpoint.

Central management: Symantec ProxySG can be managed easily from a central management console.

In short, Symantec ProxySG is an effective solution for companies looking to manage their internet traffic, improve security and optimize performance. Its advanced security capabilities and performance-enhancing features help companies safeguard business continuity. That makes Symantec ProxySG an indispensable security and performance tool for many organizations.