McAfee Web Gateway (formerly WebWasher)

McAfee Web Gateway analyzes the nature and intent of all content and code entering the network from requested web pages, providing immediate protection against malware and other hidden threats. Powered by layered security that combines local and cloud-based protection, you can count on Web Gateway for instant, advanced protection to stop zero-day threats, spyware, and targeted attacks — without a signature. Learn more about Web Gateway’s latest threat protection enhancements that provide state-of-the-art behavior-based emulation and detection techniques.

Granular application control — Get point-and-click control for nearly 1,000 web applications and granular function control within those applications. From social and streaming media to file sharing and anonymizing, enable the applications you want, manage how they are used, and control what information is shared.

Powerful safeguards against data loss — Scan user-generated content on all key web protocols, and prevent confidential or suspect information from leaking out of your enterprise through blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 applications and sites.

Easy, efficient management — With Web Gateway, you can stop deploying and managing multiple standalone web products. Web Gateway integrates numerous protections, from web filtering and anti-malware to SSL scanning and content control, all with a simplified management footprint and a flexible policy engine. Therefore, you can share a single security policy across protections and protocols, and meet the needs of your entire organization, enhancing protection while saving time and money.

Agile infrastructure and performance — Web Gateway includes a high-performance, enterprise-strength proxy that provides the flexible authentication, administration, and authorization controls required by today’s most-demanding enterprises and service providers. Numerous deployment options — from appliances and blades to VMware — ensure Web Gateway scales to your environment needs.