The need for a secure web gateway come about when there is an ever increasing amount of bad and unwanted Internet traffic flowing out through the corporate network. This will tend to create congestion and threatens the security and productivity of all users on a network.

A secure web gateway will be able to see most of the traffic flowing out through a network and this will give the administrators network visibility where policies can be created an enforced, denying access to websites that are deemed unsuitable.

Threats that occur the web are ever increasing and have morphed from from simple sites that carry malware to Web 2.0 sites that can be compromised and used to also compromise users to the sites itself.

The threat is real so how do you combat it? This category aims to show readers HOWTOs that are relevant to the management of the secure web gateway product that they are using.

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