Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Services - Your dynamic solution for Cyber Security
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Servicesenables boosting our business productivity by blocking unwanted downloads, malware attacks. It also helps us making sure we are compliant with the cyber security policies that we had adopted and there is no leakages during our day to day operations.Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Services gets updated from time to time to make sure all the recent and hidden threats are taken care of all the times.
Pros
- Almost real time protection from all ongoing threats with their DLA inspection
- Great visibility into web filtering policies using the dashboards and reports
- No patching or downloads needed, immediate protection is provided as clients are always cloud connected
Cons
- While reports and dashboards provide visibility into threat detection, real time notifications to user could be a useful feature to adopt
- Easy way to select the areas / domains where filters can be applied from client end
- More user friendly in terms of pop-ups to make user experience better
Most Important Features
- Reporting and visibility into threat detection patterns
- Always online (with cloud connectivity) feature to have real time threat protection
- Dynamic cloud protection using their global intelligence network
Return on Investment
- Boosts business productivity with having secured systems
- Globally available threat protection adhering to our own security policies
- User may sometime find it difficult to deal with - so there can be a feature to make it more user friendly in terms of user experience. That is a bit of negative we have seen.
Other Software Used
CMIT Secure DNS Filtering, CDNetworks Cloud DNS, Forcepoint URL Filtering
