Security

Cisco Cloud Web Security

Protect your organization from evolving web threats

Cisco Cloud Web Security (CWS) provides industry-leading security and control for the distributed enterprise. Users are protected everywhere, all the time when using CWS through Cisco worldwide threat intelligence, advanced threat defense capabilities, and roaming user protection.

Defend against web-based threats

Get near-real-time web protection, plus granular application visibility and control. CWS offers:

• Zero-day defense through heuristics engines, signatures, and more in a single cloud-delivered service
• Analysis of more than 100TB of security intelligence and 13 billion web requests daily to detect and mitigate threats
• Granular visibility and control of more than 150,000 applications and micro-applications

Defeat advanced malware

Get advanced malware protection with detection and blocking, continuous analysis, and retrospective alerting. CWS provides:

• Advanced security for advanced threats to defeat known and unknown threats
• Protection across the attack continuum – before, during, and after an attack
• Superior visibility and control to see more detail and set granular policies

Reduce costs

Move to an operating expenses (OpEx) model that lowers complexity for IT, while getting more out of your existing Cisco investment:

• Reduce costs by 30 to 40 percent, compared with on-premises products, with best-in-class malware defense
• Get built-in connector capability for Cisco web security appliances, firewalls, routers, and secure mobility clients
• Lower OpEx; let Cisco manage the backend infrastructure, with instant access to threat and application intelligence

Scale your solution with high availability

Don't worry about adding another box for your web security challenges. Support a distributed enterprise across headquarters, branch offices, and roaming devices with unified policy enforcement, management, and reporting:

• Achieve 99.999 percent uptime
• Right-size your web security investment with per-user subscriptions that scale as your business grows

Connect to the cloud with flexibility

Easily authenticate and redirect traffic to the Cisco Security Cloud with flexible network connectors. Cisco Security Cloud delivers a simple web security solution that does not require any additional hardware. Simplify deployment on existing Cisco infrastructure.