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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Internet Edge Design: Secure Web Gateway - Proxy or Not To Proxy?

Internet Edge Design: Proxy or Not To Proxy?We are building a new Enterprise Internet Edge for our organization and are debating whether to use a web proxy for Internet traffic or not. Here are some of the requirements we see fitting for proxy solution:





So far we have looked at following vendors which offer both appliances and cloud-based solutions. We like the cloud based solution because it's simple. But, we have concerns about performance during peak Internet hours for our network.

-Bluecoat (Expensive + Too many appliances)
-Websense (Very Expensive but well known and single clustered appliance)
-Zscalar (Cloud based + Cheaper than previous two + No appliance required)

In this post I would like to see what others are doing and thinking for a web proxy solution for their network.  Do you think a web proxy is still needed for a network where advanced firewalls on the edge have the capabilities to fight worms and viruses that can make their way into a network on HTTP/HTTPs ports?

Please leave your thoughts in the comment area.

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15 comments:

  1. JosephDecember 7, 2011 at 12:36 AM

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  2. JosephDecember 7, 2011 at 4:14 AM

    Using a proxy is probably not the solution to having a secured browsing. Hackers can still sniff out data.

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  3. @be4secDecember 23, 2011 at 3:22 AM

    Hi,
    Proxy is necessary since I guess you ll wanna control the clients ssl traffic and ssl based threats. Because of dynamic content scanning and very wide URL category database, my vote is to Websense :)

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  4. VilletteApril 11, 2012 at 2:23 AM

    My only problem with proxies is that it tends to be slow.

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  5. seo resellerApril 25, 2012 at 7:14 AM

    Proxy slows down your connection but hides your online identy, It has pros and cons.

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  6. jamie stintMay 27, 2012 at 10:53 PM

    In my opinion, proxy is a really great help when you are doing lots of activities online. However, if you have alternative options than using proxies, better use which you prefer more and is more effective. anti spam software

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  7. UnknownAugust 15, 2012 at 5:49 AM

    When you have an online document storage, I suggest that you do not use a proxy anymore so that you would not have troubles on losing some files when you often change your proxy.

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