iSheriff Web Security can be deployed with any of the most commonly used web proxies in place.

Your business may already be utilising a web proxy for content filtering or caching, such as

• Microsoft ISA Server
• Blue Coat ProxySG
• Squid or SquidNT
• Secure Computing WebWasher

Configuring iSheriff Web Security as a forward proxy is a fast and simple way to expand your current security infrastructure with no additional hardware requirements.

Many companies with geographically disparate offices deploy a single, central web proxy to avoid the cost and management overhead of deploying multiple proxies at each site, while maintaining consistent policy enforcement across the entire organization.

This tends to not only introduce excessive latency that contributes to a degraded user experience, but consumes unnecessary bandwidth as web requests, authentication information, and other data is forced to traverse large distances before the requested content can even be examined.

iSheriff Web Security eliminates that need, as its expansive global infrastructure allows each office to simply offload requests to the nearest iSheriff Web Security cloud node. Simply chain your existing proxy solution to our upstream iSheriff Web Security node to experience the immediate benefits our services offer.

iSheriff Web Security has a number of benefits either as a replacement or complementary service for web proxies, such as:

• Receipt of anti-virus and anti-spyware scanned content at LAN speeds, reducing both risk and network latency
• Protection against blended threats, phishing attacks, botnets, malicious page content, and more
• Control usage of streaming media and social networking sites during work hours, preserving bandwidth and increasing productivity
• Prevent loss of sensitive or confidential data, which is commonly leaked through webmail, instant messaging, or blogs.
• Reduced load on caching proxies – blocking content in the cloud reduces the resources required by a proxy cache, ensuring cached content consists solely of safe content, as well reduces the amount of bandwidth required from the web for non-cached content
• Detailed realtime reporting, requiring no local database nor installation of reporting software.