Symantec Secure Web Gateway Primary Use Case

Malik Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Technical Consultant at Meta Infotech

We use Symantec Secure Web Gateway to apply URL policies for cloud security, data protection, and SSL.

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Donald Baldwin - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Enterprise Architect at Aurenav Sweden AB

We use it on our user's computers at home and in the office. We do not use it on servers, clouds, or our secure development environment.

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AY
Senior Information Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One major use case is to allow internet access for some specific sites for all users without authentication. Normally, in our environment, before you go to the internet, we need to grant internet access to your account.

Another use case is where there are some sites that people can go through only from inside the office, but they should not authenticate. We don't want to grant them internet access, but we want them to be able to go to the site. We could easily configure those sites, and the users do not require authentication for them. 

We also used it to block or restrict some sites during the day so that these sites are not able to affect people during their work hours. We were also able to exempt some users from any restriction. People with the manager and higher roles could go to the internet, whereas the access was restricted for people who were not managers.

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Donald Baldwin - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Enterprise Architect at Aurenav Sweden AB

We manage it through the cloud and it's deployed that way too.

Our primary use case is for our signature-based tool for antivirus. It adds value. 

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NV
Senior Network Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use this product on all of the traffic that is going outside of the organization. It is used for the blocking of websites, as well as SSL interception and authentication for HTTP and HTTPS requests.

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MH
Senior Logistics Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our company is both a partner and a reseller of this solution. The primary use case is for endpoint security for our customers. We have lots of security devices, but for the host itself or PCs in general, this is the best solution. Especially since we have a sizeable customer base.

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FI
Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case is deploying the product as a web security gateway in conjunction with the Symantec client.  

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NK
Sr. Consultant, Cyber Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It is a web-based proxy - it's a cloud proxy.

Its use case is mostly for customers who need URL filtering, who need a proxy for blocking access to different websites, and ICAP if the proxy supports it.

The functionality is exactly the as same as ProxySG, Symantec's Blue Coat on-prem proxy, but the benefit is that the infrastructure doesn't have to be managed. You don't have to patch it, you don't have to do anything.

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