Purewire Web Security Service

Advances in social networking like Facebook, Web applications like Twitter, and commerce sites like Craigslist and eBay present new security challenges to protect users from where they are going, what they are downloading and from anyone malicious or fraudulent with whom they are interacting online. Traditional anti-virus, Web Filtering and networking solutions can’t keep up. Barracuda Networks brings safety and trust back to these platforms.

The Barracuda Purewire Web Security Service, a cloud-based secure Web gateway, protects users from malware, phishing, identity theft, and other harmful activity online – in effect, providing a pure wire to the Internet. The service sits between a company’s network and the Internet to protect the company’s users as they conduct business-critical activities on the Web.

Specifically, it:

• Inspects outbound Web traffic for safety and compliance
• Analyzes Web site response traffic for malicious programs and untrustworthy users
• Provides global visibility through comprehensive and flexible reporting to the user level
• Protects users accessing the Web in the workplace, on laptops and via mobile devices