Key Features:

• Ensures maximum protection by combining list-based techniques with heuristic, context-sensitive analysis for both virus protection and web content filtering
• Secures web traffic with high-performance, integrated virus scanning and content filtering of HTTP and FTP traffic at the gateway
• Simplifies administration and enhances management flexibility with new centralized multi-server policy management capabilities
• Provides highly manageable and scalable protection for individual users and groups via secure support for external directory services
• Improves network performance and user productivity while eliminating unwanted content and malicious code
• Backed by Symantec Security Response—the world's leading antivirus and Internet security research and response organization

Comprehensive antivirus and content filtering protection for web gateways

Symantec Web Security protects HTTP/FTP traffic with scalable, high-performance, one–time scanning using leading antivirus and content filtering technologies. It maximizes employee productivity and network performance by blocking traffic to inappropriate, non-business-related web sites and screening out web-borne malicious code attacks. And it is the only solution that integrates list-based and heuristic, context-sensitive analyses in a single-vendor solution for protecting the web gateway from viruses and unsuitable content.

Symantec Web Security is tightly integrated antivirus and content filtering solution. Symantec researches, develops, integrates, and supports its own international URL filtering lists as well as a variety of market-leading protection technologies. Symantec's NAVEX™ modular scanning engine detects new virus classes without having to uninstall existing software, redeploys new software, or reboots the system. Symantec Striker™, Bloodhound™, and LiveUpdate™ provide real-time, multilevel, and uninterrupted protection against malicious code attacks. Plus, Symantec's patented, multilingual Dynamic Document Review™ content-analysis technology analyzes word relationships to block access to inappropriate web content.

Centralized multi-server policy management and secure, built-in support for external directory services, including LDAP and NT Users/Groups, provide simple, flexible administration, policy enforcement, and reporting for multiple users, groups, and servers. Symantec Web Security monitors, logs, enables auditing, and provides automated alerting tools. It also improves network throughput by reducing overall web-based traffic, which enhances firewall and network reliability and security. Symantec Web Security is supported by Symantec Security Response, the world's leading antivirus and Internet security research and response organization.