ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) vs. Symantec Web Security Service

Our Secure Web Gateway includes ProxySG, and sits between your users and their interactions with the Internet to identify malicious payloads and to control sensitive content. Our Secure Web Gateway consolidates a broad feature-set to authenticate users, filter web traffic, identify cloud application usage, provide data loss prevention, deliver threat prevention, and ensure visibility into encrypted traffic. It also provides coaching and feedback to the user to ensure a strong and secure user experience when interacting with the Internet.

Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) provides the same proactive web protection capabilities delivered by the market’s leading on-premises Secure Web Gateway, Symantec ProxySG, but delivered as a resilient and performant cloud security service. Sitting between employees, wherever they are located, and the Internet, the service protects the enterprise from cyber threats, controls and protects corporate use of cloud applications and the web, prevents data leaks, and ensures compliance with all company information and web/cloud access policies.