Best Secure Web Gateways for Startups - Page 2

Compare the Top Secure Web Gateways for Startups as of July 2025 - Page 2

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    Forcepoint WebShield

    Forcepoint WebShield

    Forcepoint WebShield

    Secures HTTP traffic throughout the enterprise and provides access to web-based resources on less sensitive networks. Forcepoint WebShield, a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) data guard, provides secure Web search and browse-down capabilities from high-side networks to lower-level networks. WebShield supports the missions of the largest number of cross domain transfer users as a secure mechanism for complete information browsing and discovery. WebShield provides transparent protection of the entire network and allows users to carry out their missions with increased protection. Users surfing lower-level networks can be restricted to specific server and file types as defined by security policies. All requests, responses and transfers go through security controls, such as dirty word search, virus scan and malicious content checks. Forcepoint WebShield is an approved cross domain transfer solution on the Unified Cross Domain Services Management Office (UCDSMO) Cross Domain Baseline.
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    FortiGate SWG
    Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions, enterprise-class protection against internet-borne threats. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions use web filtering to enforce company Internet access policies. They also filter unwanted software, especially malware, from user-initiated Internet connections. SWGs are hugely important as enterprises have continued to evolve their WAN Edge. Applications are rapidly migrating to the cloud, and the attack surface at remote sites and branch locations continues to increase. Security risks are especially high for web-based traffic, and as attack techniques become more advanced, organizations need an integrated approach to secure against external and internal risks. An SWG solution should include URL filtering, application control, deep HTTPS/SSL inspection, data loss prevention and remote browser isolation capabilities. Fortinet's SWG provides flexible deployment options, including explicit, transparent, and inline modes.
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    FortiProxy

    FortiProxy

    Fortinet

    As attacks become more versatile, organizations need an integrated approach to secure from malicious web traffic, websites, and viruses. Fortinet's secure web gateway, FortiProxy, addresses these issues with one, unified product to protect against web attacks with URL filtering, advanced threat defense, and malware protection. Defend end-users from internet-borne threats and enforce policy compliance. Secure Web Gateway addresses a set of overlapping security problems within one product. Using one solution which protects against web attacks with URL filtering, advanced threat defense and malware protection to defend users from internet-borne threats and help enforce internet policy compliance. FortiProxy is a secure web proxy that protects employees against internet-borne attacks by incorporating multiple detection techniques such as web filtering, DNS filtering, data loss prevention, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and advanced threat protection.
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    Passages

    Passages

    Ntrepid

    With Passages, your users can access any website and follow any link without risk to your infrastructure or data, and you can monitor and manage it all with ease. The technologies and components in Passages are proven and mature, having evolved from the hardened Internet platforms Ntrepid developed over the last 15 years for the national security community. They put our solutions to the test against some of the world’s most sophisticated and aggressive opponents. Corporate security breaches come through the web because conventional malware protection and firewalls are not enough. The solution is malware isolation. Contain and eliminate web-delivered malware with Passages, protecting your valuable data and infrastructure. Highly targeted attacks are the new favorite technique of sophisticated hackers, but they can’t target people or corporations that they can’t identify. Hide your IP address and identifying information to avoid these dangerous attacks.
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    Sangfor Athena SWG

    Sangfor Athena SWG

    Sangfor Technologies

    Sangfor Athena SWG is a secure web gateway designed to protect organizations from threats arising through user internet access behavior, especially as cloud adoption and hybrid work increase. It provides visibility into encrypted traffic and identifies proxy avoidance attempts that bypass traditional security perimeters. The platform offers precise application control, intelligent traffic management, and gateway decryption to monitor and manage internet usage effectively. Athena SWG integrates with endpoint security to enforce proxy avoidance protection, ensuring comprehensive defense against bypass techniques. It supports centralized network-wide management and bandwidth optimization, improving productivity by controlling non-work-related applications. Trusted across industries, Athena SWG helps organizations secure user internet access while maintaining compliance and operational efficiency.
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    Trustwave Secure Web Gateway
    Delivers real-time protection against malware and provides strong policy enforcement, with the added option of having the technology handled by our experts and augmented by our intelligence without you ever losing control. Your employees rely on the web and email to do their jobs, but cybercriminals are lurking in the background 24/7. A Secure Web Gateway responds by keeping your staff's endpoints free of internet-borne malware infections, while enforcing your company's policies. Reap the rewards of continuity, scalability and reduced costs with a cloud deployment that can extend across your enterprise to remote offices and roaming users. Retain control of the data in your environment with an on-premises solution that comes equipped with multi-layered anti-malware and behavior-based security engines to drive performance and scale. Our experts take the work out of your hands, designing and updating security and control policies based on your needs and direction.
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    Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
    Understand and govern your web access to protect users from zero-day threats and enforce data protection everywhere with a mature, web security solution and an integrated component of Skyhigh Security SSE. Skyhigh Security Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is the intelligent, cloud-native web security solution that connects and secures your workforce from malicious websites and cloud apps—from anywhere, any application, and any device. Connects users seamlessly and without disruption through Hyperscale Service Edge with cloud-native web security that operates with blazing fast ultra-low latency and 99.999% uptime. Protects users, data, and applications to minimize cloud and web attack surface through integrated remote browser isolation and real-time insights to Cloud Security Advisor that generates automatic risk-scoring. Controls access to all cloud services and protects against the risk of data loss from a single console using our robust DLP engine with integrated CASB functionality.
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    Verizon Secure Gateway
    Combine the secure reach and broad capacity of private networks with the convenience of the public internet. Get reliable, encrypted access to remote locations. Delivered through a cloud-based port, Secure Gateway extends your WAN environments to remote locations and users. With this fully managed, centralized gateway security, your customers and employees can use a variety of wireless and broadband access options to securely connect and collaborate virtually anytime and virtually anywhere. Secure Gateway services enable Private IP customers to provide secure remote access to applications on their corporate network and secure access to the public internet from remote locations. Extend your network to remote workers, smaller sites that may not need premium connections and remote locations that are hard to reach while helping to keep employees productive. Give employees secure access to critical information and apps virtually anywhere.
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    Zecurion SWG
    Control access to web resources and protect against mixed threats with Zecurion Secure Web Gateway. Neither affects the network performance nor slows down existing processes. Neither affects the network performance nor slows down existing processes. Enterprise-level performance and rich functionality. Operates in networks with up to 200K workstations. Prevents attacks with the built-in IDS/IPS module. Supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP over HTTP and other protocols. Native integration with DLP. Integration with any other software through ICAP. The most accurate and up-to-date content filtering database. Sites are categorized manually by a person rather than by a robot. Daily database updates. More than 100 resource categories. Fast categorization of new and unknown web sites. Policies with per-user granularity. Over 5 million URLs in the database. A single solution for monitoring the entire corporate threat landscape. Try zecurion SWG together with zecurion dlp!
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    Zorus Archon Web Filtering
    A complete web filtering platform, engineered for managed service providers. Archon filters traffic through a proxy system, allowing you to grant access to some parts of a site while blocking others. Centrally managed and deployed with a single click, Archon eliminates the need to maintain costly hardware. Capable of learning from each new deployment and scanned site, Archon self optimizes. Traditional UTM systems only protect devices inside their networks. Archon protection travels with the device. Protect your clients everywhere they’re doing business. According to Gartner, 50% of employees will continue to work remotely, even after COVID-19 ends. Traditional security platforms like corporate firewalls and VPNs don’t take into consideration new work trends, like hybrid work from home. Employees can access services like e-mail and cloud storage from multiple devices, including from their personal endpoints. Archon was built with geographic diversity in mind.
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    iboss

    iboss

    iboss

    iboss is a cloud security company that enables organizations to reduce cyber risk by delivering a Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge platform designed to protect resources and users in the modern distributed world. Applications, data, and services have moved to the cloud and are located everywhere, while users needing access to those resources are working from anywhere. The iboss platform replaces legacy VPN, Proxies, and VDI with a consolidated service that improves security, increases the end-user experience, consolidates technology, and substantially reduces costs. Built on a containerized cloud architecture, iboss delivers security capabilities such as SWG, malware defense, Browser Isolation, CASB, and Data Loss Prevention to protect all resources via the cloud instantaneously and at scale. The iboss platform includes ZTNA to replace legacy VPN, Security Service Edge to replace legacy Proxies, and Browser Isolation to replace legacy VDI. This shifts the focus from protecting
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    Trend Micro Web Security
    Trend Micro™ Web Security protects against cyber threats before they reach your users. It uses crossgenerational defense techniques to catch known and unknown threats, giving you visibility and access control on unsanctioned cloud applications for each of your users. Our unique deployment model provides you with the flexibility to deploy gateways on-premises, in the cloud, or both—protecting your users no matter where they are. One cloud-based management console simplifies your workload, letting you set up policy, manage users, and access reporting across a single pane of glass. Trend Micro Web Security stops threats directly in the cloud before they get to your endpoints. Your users will be protected across any device—including desktop and mobile platforms—at any location, whether on the corporate network or not.
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    Smoothwall Filter
    Enabling a safer, digital learning environment with real-time, content-aware and granular control web filtering. Keeps users safe by categorizing new and existing content in real-time by analyzing the content, context and construction of each page. Build web filtering policies based on user group, content category, location IP and time. Offer appropriate internet access to guest mobile devices securely on your network across all platforms. Allow read-only access and remove inappropriate content across social media sites. The challenge for any educational organization is to protect students from harmful content while providing the freedom to learn without limits. Preventing over blocking and unreasonable restrictions is critical. Categorizes new and existing web content appropriately in real-time by analyzing the content, context and construction of each page.
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    ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway
    Symantec delivers high-performance on-premises secure web gateway appliances that protect organizations across the web, social media, applications, and mobile networks. Combine with cloud-delivered Web Security Service for a centrally-managed, hybrid secure web solution. Symantec protects organizations with a scalable, high-performance web proxy appliance designed to secure communications from advanced threats targeting web activity. Symantec Secure Web Gateway solutions draw on a unique proxy server architecture that allows organizations to effectively monitor, control, and secure traffic to ensure a safe web and cloud experience. Get complete visibility into SSL/TLS-encrypted web traffic with Symantec's advanced secure web proxy and cloud security solutions. Symantec Web Isolation prevents websites from delivering zero-day malware, protects users' devices by executing web sessions away from endpoints, and safely sends rendering information to the browser.
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    Symantec Secure Web Gateway
    Security architectures are becoming more stressed with network traffic merging onto the web and into cloud apps such as Office 365. Your data—and your security—has to follow wherever your employees go. Defend your enterprise with an advanced cloud-delivered network security service that’s highly scalable, high performing, cost-effective, and simple to use. 'Direct-to-net' security reduces web traffic backhauls to corporate data centers and protects your entire enterprise, especially remote and branch offices, and mobile users. Software Defined Perimeter gives users access to corporate applications, regardless device type, use or location, without adding complication or security risk. Security policy automated alignment, performance acceleration, security policy enforcement, and other optimizations secure Office 365 traffic.
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    Sangfor Athena SASE

    Sangfor Athena SASE

    Sangfor Technologies

    Sangfor Athena SASE is a cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge platform that combines advanced security features with wide-area network agility. It provides seamless, secure access to cloud resources, on-premises applications, and the internet for today’s distributed and hybrid workforce. The platform integrates Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) into a unified solution. Athena SASE simplifies network and security management through a single, centralized console, reducing complexity and operational overhead. Its global architecture supports fast, reliable connectivity anywhere, enabling smooth geographic expansion and regulatory compliance. This platform empowers organizations to secure hybrid work environments while optimizing performance and cost.
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    Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Services
    Powered by the Global Intelligence Network, Symantec WebFilter and Intelligence Services deliver real-time web content protection, security categorization and web application control. The web filtering service automatically filters and categorizes billions of URLs into over 80 predefined categories, including 12 security categories that can be easily managed by IT administrators. When combined with Symantec Secure Web Gateway, including Blue Coat ProxySG, you have the most accurate and granular web application control policy engine for your entire enterprise web filter and cloud access protection. The Advanced Intelligence Services provide additional new services that add more flexibility and options to your webfilters, content control, policy and security management with URL threat risk levels and geolocation.
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    BlackBerry Cyber Suite
    Secure and protect your users and devices, even BYOD laptops and smartphones, with a solution that’s focused on earning trust across any endpoint and continuously validating that trust at every event or transaction. Is your organization equipped with the tools to empower your employees, no matter where they’re working? In a situation where employees may be unable to report to the office, it’s essential that they still have secure access to the data and apps they need, whether they use corporate or personal owned devices. The BlackBerry® Cyber Suite provides complete security, effectively preventing breaches and safeguarding against sophisticated threats with advanced AI. It provides a total Zero Trust solution with coverage across the full spectrum of devices, ownership models, network, apps and people. It continuously authenticates users and dynamically adapts security policies to deliver a Zero Touch experience that improves security with no user interruption.
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    Cisco Secure Web Appliance
    Advanced threats can hide even on legitimate websites. Users may inadvertently put your organization at risk by clicking where they shouldn't. Cisco Secure Web Appliance protects your organization by automatically blocking risky sites and testing unknown sites before allowing users to click on them. Using TLS 1.3 and high-performance capabilities, Cisco Secure Web Appliance keeps your users safe. Cisco Secure Web Appliance provides multiple ways to automatically detect and block web-based threats. Powered by our Talos threat research organization, the Cisco Secure Web Appliance Premier license includes in-depth URL filtering and reputation analysis, multiple antivirus engines, Layer 4 traffic monitoring, Malware Defense for Secure Web Appliance, and Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA).
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    IBM B2B Integrator
    IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator helps companies integrate all their complex B2B and EDI processes across partner communities in a single gateway. It provides a flexible platform, available on-premises or through hybrid cloud, that supports data transformation and most communication protocols; secures your B2B network and data; provides certified container support; and achieves high availability for operations with IBM Sterling Global Mailbox. B2B Integrator enables you to reduce costs by consolidating on a single platform and automating B2B processes across enterprises while providing governance, adherence to standards and visibility for those processes. High-availability gateway platform built for the most demanding environments, with global mailbox options for geographic distribution and real-time data replication. Significantly reduce installation and patch time from hours to minutes by deploying your solution with a certified container that has all required components.
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    Kitecyber

    Kitecyber

    Kitecyber

    Kitecyber provides a hyper-converged endpoint security solution that provides comprehensive security and meets compliance requirements of organizations for SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR etc. Our unique endpoint-based approach eliminates the need for cloud gateways or local appliances. The hyper-converged offering includes the following protections: 1) Secure Web Gateway to safeguard internet access 2) Eliminate Shadow SaaS and Shadow AI) 3) Anti-Phishing measures to protect user credentials 4) Zero Trust Private Access (Next gen VPN) 5) Data Loss Prevention across all devices—Mac, Windows, and mobile 6) Device Management for Mac, Windows, and mobile for all employees, BYOD devices and 3rd party contractors 7) Continuous Compliance Monitoring 8) User Behavior Analysis to identify potential risks
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    VersaONE

    VersaONE

    Versa Networks

    The AI-powered platform for unified security and networking. Enhance the speed of detection and remediation with AI-powered threat and data protection that minimizes human errors. Improve user and app experience, and improve performance and reliability with an AI-powered network. Lower your TCO by simplifying your infrastructure with a converged platform that reduces point product sprawl, fragmented operations, and complex lifecycle management. VersaONE provides seamless connectivity and unified security for all users, devices, offices, branches, and edge locations. It delivers secure access to all your workloads, applications, and clouds from a single platform, ensuring that data and resources are accessible and secure across any network whether it be WAN, LAN, wireless, cellular or satellite. This unified platform approach streamlines network management, reduces complexity, and enhances security, meeting the demands of modern IT environments.
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    Clearswift Secure Web Gateway
    Clearswift’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) gives organizations the ability to enforce consistent internet security through flexible and granular policy management across web traffic, web-based applications, and cloud collaboration platforms. Prevent accidental data leaks with real-time content and context aware scanning that can detect and modify sensitive information being shared across the web such as social posts or document uploads to websites or cloud based applications. With SWG, monitor web traffic and prevent access to inappropriate or malicious sites as well as remove suspicious scripts or harmful executables from downloaded content. SWG empowers you to balance the need to protect critical information entering and leaving your organization with the ability to continuously collaborate with customers, suppliers, and partners across the web.
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    Secucloud

    Secucloud

    Secucloud

    Secucloud GmbH is active worldwide as a provider of high-availability cyber-security solutions, offering a cloud-based security-as-a-service platform particularly for providers. The Elastic Cloud Security System (ECS2) allows a wide range of markets and target groups (mobile communications & landline consumers, small businesses & home offices, SMEs) to enjoy the benefits of enterprise-level security solutions. This innovative platform does not require any special hardware or proprietary appliances, scales automatically, and is capable of supporting more than 100 million users and their connected devices. Secucloud is at the cutting edge of the cyber security industry and has maintained strong partnerships with industry leaders for years, combining their expertise with its own internal innovation cycles. The company is therefore excellently positioned to push the limits of what is possible in the fight against an increasingly complex landscape of cyber threats.
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    Forcepoint URL Filtering
    Forcepoint URL Filtering is the industry’s most effective, continually up-to-date web filtering solution. Powered by our ThreatSeeker Intelligence, Forcepoint URL Filtering collects and analyzes up to 5 billion incidents every day (from over 155 countries), producing updated threat analytics for Forcepoint solutions at up to 3.2 updates per second. Forcepoint URL Filtering blocks web threats to reduce malware infections, decrease help desk incidents and provide relief to valuable IT resources. Forcepoint URL Filtering is an easy-to-deploy, transparent filter and security solution that avoids the complexity of a proxy gateway. It’s equipped with more than 120 security and web filtering categories, hundreds of web application and protocol controls, and 60-plus reports with customization and role-based access. Identify threats with over 10,000 analytics, machine learning and other advanced techniques maintained through real-time global threat intelligence with Forcepoint Web Security.
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    Zenarmor

    Zenarmor

    Zenarmor

    Get instant security whenever and wherever you have network access! Easily manage all your Zenarmor instances through the cloud-based management interface and get ultimate control over your security! Powerful, enterprise-class content filtering engine that detects and blocks advanced malware as well as highly sophisticated threats. You can even deploy Zenarmor on an outdated PC or a home lab virtual system! Free, lightweight and nimble. This allows enterprises to instantly launch software-based micro firewalls on demand to easily secure assets wherever they might be and at any time. AI-powered cloud based web categorization database provides real-time classification for hundreds of millions of sites. Unknown sites are categorized under 5 minutes.
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    CensorNet Web Security
    Protect your organization from web-borne malware, and offensive or inappropriate content and manage time spent on websites that impact productivity with Censornet Web Security. Powered by a unique architecture that ensures lightning-fast response times for all users no matter where they are in the world. Malware distribution sites, compromised pages on legitimate sites, malvertising and infected files either downloaded or cloud-shared. Protection via a powerful combination of real-time traffic inspection, URL reputation, advanced anti-malware and threat intelligence. With Web Security, every page within a site is categorized – not just the domain or sub-domain.
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    ManageEngine Browser Security Plus
    Browser Security software is a tool that helps protect sensitive enterprise data from security breaches associated with cyberattacks. Browser Security Plus is an enterprise browser security tool that helps IT administrators manage and secure browsers across networks. It enables them to gain visibility on browser usage trends, harden browsers settings, control browser extensions and plug-ins, lock down enterprise browsers, and ensure compliance with stipulated browser security standards. All this helps admins protect their networks from cyberattacks, such as phishing attacks, watering hole attacks, ransomware, viruses, and trojans. Gain total visibility into browser usage trends and add-ons present across your network. Detect which add-ons components are capable of causing security breaches. Manage and secure the browser add-ons with Add-on Management.
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    Check Point URL Filtering

    Check Point URL Filtering

    Check Point Software Technologies

    Web access is a predominant route for attacks on enterprises. Check Point URL Filtering controls access to millions of web sites by category, users, groups, and machines to protect users from malicious sites and enable safe use of the Internet. URL Filtering employs UserCheck technology, which educates users on web usage policy in real time. Protects users with cloud-based categorization and UserCheck technology. Enable on any Check Point security gateway reducing total cost of ownership. Unified security across all aspects of the web with full application control integration. Security teams must be able to isolate, secure, and control every device on the network at all times. Check Point solutions provide you with the ability to block infected devices from accessing corporate data and assets, including employees’ mobile devices and workstations, IoT devices and industrial control systems.
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    Symantec Web Security Service
    Cloud-delivered network security service enforces comprehensive internet security and data compliance policies, regardless of location or device. Increasing web use, rapid cloud adoption, and greater numbers of mobile and remote users are exposing your network to additional risk. Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) is an indispensable line of defense against modern day cyber threats. It provides secure web services, enables enterprises to control access, protects users from threats, and secures their sensitive data. 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.