Vendor Landscape: Secure Web Gateways

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) products protect your organization from incoming threats to your network or malicious outbound communication. Products vary in their ability to detect these threats and the environments that they support.
Organizations must fully understand their rationale for adopting an SWG. Additional benefits such as web application controls for employee productivity can increase the rationale scope for getting an SWG beyond just security concerns.
Organizations today must secure against the most advanced payload malware through advanced detection capabilities. This functionality must also be usable across the various mediums where web traffic is seen. Varying protocols, devices, operating systems, and locations all provide levels of complexity that need to be met.

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Critical Insight

Malicious web scripts, whether changing dynamically during browser execution or changing quickly on the server-side, can be undetected through simple JavaScript evaluation. Advanced sandboxing or emulation capabilities are needed to detect these obfuscated scripts.
Business is about access. Ensure that SWGs support mobile and BYOD security & compliance through OS support and guest Wi-Fi support, enabling anywhere access.
Realized value from SWGs requires that productivity tools are included in evaluating a product. Granular control options around specific applications are necessary.

Impact and Result

Many SWGs may seem similar in feature sets. Determine which vendor offerings can meet your organizational needs.
Understand what threats your organization is facing and what environments you operate in to discover what advanced detection capabilities and environment support are relevant.
Info-Tech’s framework for selecting a delivery method and shortlisting vendors will save you time by ensuring you only evaluate the vendors that fit the organization’s SWG needs.

Vendor Landscape: Secure Web Gateways Research & Tools

1. Evaluate the leading solutions for SWG

Understand the market and available options.

2. Identify the SWG solution that best meets organizational needs

Develop a shortlist to speed the selection process.

3. Issue an RFP to the shortlist of vendors

Solicit responses from shortlisted vendors to find optimal enterprise fit.

4. Review RFP winners

Ensure that selected proponents can deliver when it counts.

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