Web Security solutions prevent unsecured inbound web traffic from entering an organization’s internal network and enforce company policies for the outbound internet traffic. A Web Security solution that filters unwanted software/malware from user-initiated Web/Internet traffic and enforces corporate and regulatory policy compliance. As per Gartner, these gateways must, at a minimum, include URL filtering, malicious-code detection and filtering, and application controls for popular Web-based applications, such as instant messaging (IM) and Skype.

A secure web gateway is an on-premise or cloud-delivered network security service. It is a full proxy between users and the Internet provides advanced protection by inspecting web requests against company policy to ensure malicious applications and websites are blocked and inaccessible. A secure web gateway includes essential security technologies such as URL filtering, application control, data loss prevention, antivirus, and HTTP/s inspection to provide strong web security.